{"id":996809,"date":"2026-03-07T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996809"},"modified":"2026-03-07T08:51:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:21:34","slug":"ettech-deals-digest-startups-raise-157-million-this-week-down-32-on-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/07\/ettech-deals-digest-startups-raise-157-million-this-week-down-32-on-year\/","title":{"rendered":"ETtech Deals Digest: Startups raise $157 million this week, down 32% on-year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Startups raised around $157.3 million between February 28 and March 6, a decline of 32.2% compared to the $231.9 million secured during the same period last year, according to data intelligence platform Tracxn. <\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s tally was around 3.3% more than the $152.2 million raised in the previous week this year. <\/p>\n<p>The deal activity also slowed significantly this week, with 23 transactions recorded compared with 50 in the same week last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Startups raised around $157.3 million between February 28 and March 6, a decline of 32.2% compared to the $231.9 million secured during the same period last year, according to data intelligence platform Tracxn. This week\u2019s tally was around 3.3% more than the $152.2 million raised in the previous week this year. The deal activity also slowed significantly this week, with 23 transactions recorded compared with 50 in the same week last year.<\/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-996809","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\/996809","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=996809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}