{"id":978163,"date":"2025-12-03T09:26:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978163"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:47:50","slug":"keralas-startup-funding-doubles-to-usd-14-7-million-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/03\/keralas-startup-funding-doubles-to-usd-14-7-million-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala\u2019s startup funding doubles to USD 14.7 million in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Despite fears of funding winter and tougher valuations, Kerala\u2019s startups have made a big comeback this year. They raised $14.7 million in the first nine months of 2025 \u2014 a 147 per cent surge from $6 million during the same period last year, according to Tracxn\u2019s Kerala Tech Ecosystem Wrap Report. <\/p>\n<p>The sharp rise comes despite a drop in deal volumes, indicating deeper investor bets on select high-potential ventures, according to the report by the data intelligence platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Despite fears of funding winter and tougher valuations, Kerala\u2019s startups have made a big comeback this year. They raised $14.7 million in the first nine months of 2025 \u2014 a 147 per cent surge from $6 million during the same period last year, according to Tracxn\u2019s Kerala Tech Ecosystem Wrap Report. The sharp rise comes despite a drop in deal volumes, indicating deeper investor bets on select high-potential ventures, according to the report by the data intelligence platform.<\/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-978163","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\/978163","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=978163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}