{"id":820533,"date":"2024-06-10T11:08:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T05:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=820533"},"modified":"2024-06-10T11:55:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T06:25:24","slug":"startup-funding-rises-23-on-year-to-326-million-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/06\/10\/startup-funding-rises-23-on-year-to-326-million-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup funding rises 23% on year to $326 million this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology startups logged funding worth about $326.1 million in the first week of June, a 22.6% increase on year. A $200-million deal at eyewear retailer Lenskart accounted for over 61% of the overall activity. <\/p>\n<p>Startups, mostly late-stage, raised funds from 16 rounds, as per Tracxn data. In the same period, a year ago \u2013 June 1 to 7, 2023 \u2013 they had raised a total of $266 million. The funding winter was in full force by then, having set in from September 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology startups logged funding worth about $326.1 million in the first week of June, a 22.6% increase on year. A $200-million deal at eyewear retailer Lenskart accounted for over 61% of the overall activity. Startups, mostly late-stage, raised funds from 16 rounds, as per Tracxn data. In the same period, a year ago \u2013 June 1 to 7, 2023 \u2013 they had raised a total of $266 million. The funding winter was in full force by then, having set in from September 2022.<\/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-820533","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\/820533","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=820533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}