{"id":979137,"date":"2025-12-09T08:19:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T02:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979137"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:14:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:44:59","slug":"climate-tech-funding-dips-as-vcs-look-for-exportable-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/09\/climate-tech-funding-dips-as-vcs-look-for-exportable-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate-tech funding dips as VCs look for exportable solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capital funding for climate-tech startups in India has declined for the third straight year. Total funding fell to $657 million in 2025 year-to-date (YTD) from $1.17 billion in 2024 and $1.5 billion in 2023, according to Venture Intelligence data. The drop was mostly due to a slump in EV mobility funding, which has more than halved between 2025 and 2023. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the fall in cheque sizes, investors said interest has shifted to newer sub-categories. The deal volumes have remained in the 70-75 range, with seed-stage activity at 33 rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capital funding for climate-tech startups in India has declined for the third straight year. Total funding fell to $657 million in 2025 year-to-date (YTD) from $1.17 billion in 2024 and $1.5 billion in 2023, according to Venture Intelligence data. The drop was mostly due to a slump in EV mobility funding, which has more than halved between 2025 and 2023. Despite the fall in cheque sizes, investors said interest has shifted to newer sub-categories. The deal volumes have remained in the 70-75 range, with seed-stage activity at 33 rounds.<\/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-979137","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\/979137","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=979137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}