{"id":999813,"date":"2026-03-28T08:52:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999813"},"modified":"2026-03-28T09:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:35:12","slug":"ettech-deals-digest-startups-raise-936-million-in-march-so-far-down-56-on-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/28\/ettech-deals-digest-startups-raise-936-million-in-march-so-far-down-56-on-year\/","title":{"rendered":"ETtech Deals Digest: Startups raise $936 million in March so far; down 56% on-year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian startups raised about $935.7 million in funding in March so far, marking a 56% decline from March 2025, when they raised a total of $2.1 billion across 237 rounds. <\/p>\n<p>This month, startups across multiple stages secured funding through 94 rounds, according to data from market intelligence platform Tracxn. This was 26.1% lower than in the previous month. <\/p>\n<p>In February 2026, startups raised around $1.27 billion across 128 rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian startups raised about $935.7 million in funding in March so far, marking a 56% decline from March 2025, when they raised a total of $2.1 billion across 237 rounds. This month, startups across multiple stages secured funding through 94 rounds, according to data from market intelligence platform Tracxn. This was 26.1% lower than in the previous month. In February 2026, startups raised around $1.27 billion across 128 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-999813","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\/999813","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=999813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}