{"id":947940,"date":"2025-07-19T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=947940"},"modified":"2025-07-19T08:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:14:14","slug":"biting-the-dust-only-1-out-of-50-start-ups-secures-series-a-funding-within-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/19\/biting-the-dust-only-1-out-of-50-start-ups-secures-series-a-funding-within-18-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Biting the dust: Only 1 out of 50 start-ups secures Series A funding within 18 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: In just one week, two start-ups &#8212; quick fashion delivery platform Blip and AI start-up CodeParrot &#8212; have shut down citing various reasons including funding crunch. Though it is not easy to raise funds, especially after securing seed money, what bothers the start-up ecosystem is excessive cash burn and the pressure to grow fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: In just one week, two start-ups &#8212; quick fashion delivery platform Blip and AI start-up CodeParrot &#8212; have shut down citing various reasons including funding crunch. Though it is not easy to raise funds, especially after securing seed money, what bothers the start-up ecosystem is excessive cash burn and the pressure to grow fast.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947940","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=947940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}