{"id":1038819,"date":"2026-09-26T08:28:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038819"},"modified":"2026-09-26T08:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:02:16","slug":"indias-startup-cash-keeps-finding-one-address-with-4-4-billion-going-to-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/26\/indias-startup-cash-keeps-finding-one-address-with-4-4-billion-going-to-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s startup cash keeps finding one address, with $4.4 billion going to Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s startup funding market may have seen fewer deals this year, but the money is still flowing disproportionately to Bengaluru. <\/p>\n<p>Startups in the city raised $4.4 billion in the first nine months of 2026, nearly as much as the $4.8 billion raised by Mumbai, Gurugram, Noida, Delhi and Hyderabad combined, according to Tracxn\u2019s India Tech &#8211; 9M 2026 Report, as reported by the Times of India. <\/p>\n<p>The data, covering funding between January 1 and September 21, shows Bengaluru continuing to dominate India\u2019s startup funding map even as the overall number of funding rounds has fallen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s startup funding market may have seen fewer deals this year, but the money is still flowing disproportionately to Bengaluru. Startups in the city raised $4.4 billion in the first nine months of 2026, nearly as much as the $4.8 billion raised by Mumbai, Gurugram, Noida, Delhi and Hyderabad combined, according to Tracxn\u2019s India Tech &#8211; 9M 2026 Report, as reported by the Times of India. The data, covering funding between January 1 and September 21, shows Bengaluru continuing to dominate India\u2019s startup funding map even as the overall number of funding rounds has fallen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038820,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038819\/revisions\/1038820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}