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<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSUMMARY<\/p>\n
This week, Indian startup funding stood at $52 Mn across 15 deals, down 44% from the preceding week<\/p>\n
On the back of the week’s biggest round, Fairdeal.Market’s $15 Mn Series A funding, ecommerce emerged as the most funded segment this week<\/p>\n
On the back of the week’s biggest round, Fairdeal.Market’s $15 Mn Series A funding, ecommerce emerged as the most funded segment this week<\/p>\n
Weekly funding activity remained volatile in the world\u2019s third-largest startup ecosystem. Between May 22 and 25, 14 Indian startups collectively raised $52 Mn, marking a 44% decline from the $92.2 Mn secured across 17 deals in the previous week.<\/p>\n
Notably, four funding deals announced during the week did not disclose the amount raised.<\/p>\n
Funding Galore: Indian Startup Funding Of The Week [May 25 \u2014 May 29]<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Date
\nName
\nSector
\nSubsector
\nBusiness Model
\nFunding Round Size
\nFunding Round Type
\nInvestors
\nLead Investor<\/p>\n
26 May 2026
\nFairdeal.Market
\nEcommerce
\nHorizontal Marketplace
\nB2B
\n$15 Mn
\nSeries A
\nBertelsmann India Investments, WaterBridge Ventures, Incubate Asia Fund
\nBertelsmann India Investments<\/p>\n
25 May 2026
\nStrainX Bioworks
\nHealth Tech
\nLifescience
\nB2B
\n$13 Mn
\n\u2013
\nPrime Venture Partners, Leo Capital, Good Startup, Sparrow Capital, Sun Icon Ventures, Dholakia Ventures, WindT Angels
\nPrime Venture Partners, Leo Capital<\/p>\n
27 May 2026
\nTIEA Connectors
\nEnterprise Services
\nManufacturing Solutions
\nB2B
\n$8 Mn
\nSeries A
\nIvyCap Ventures, Jamwant Ventures, 8X Ventures
\nIvyCap Ventures<\/p>\n
25 May 2026
\nabCoffee
\nEcommerce
\nD2C
\nB2C
\n$6.4 Mn
\nPre-Series B
\nKliff Ventures, Hero Enterprise Partner Ventures, Merisis Venture Fund, Stride Ventures
\nKliff Ventures<\/p>\n
25 May 2026
\nYes Madam
\nConsumer Services
\nHyperlocal Services
\nB2C
\n$5.2 Mn
\n\u2013
\nInfo Edge Ventures
\nInfo Edge Ventures<\/p>\n
28 May 2026
\nC2i Semiconductors
\nAdvanced Hardware & Technology
\nSemiconductor
\nB2B
\n$1.7 Mn*
\nSeries A
\nTDK Ventures
\nTDK Ventures<\/p>\n
26 May 2026
\nFlexprice
\nAI
\nApplication Layer
\nB2B
\n$1.5 Mn
\nSeed
\nShastra VC, Anupam Mittal (People Group), TDV Partners
\nShastra VC, Anupam Mittal (People Group)<\/p>\n
28 May 2026
\nZeroDrag Technologies
\nAdvanced Hardware & Technology
\nAerial Vehicle
\nB2B
\n$682K
\n\u2013
\nTransition VC
\nTransition VC<\/p>\n
28 May 2026
\nEazzy
\nConsumer Services
\nHyperlocal Services
\nB2C
\n$440K
\n\u2013
\n\u2013
\n\u2013<\/p>\n
26 May 2026
\nBucketlistt
\nTravel Tech
\nBooking Services
\nB2C
\n$112K
\nPre-Seed
\nArvind Choudhar (Angel Investor), Aenik Shah (Angel Investor), Kartik Khatri (Angel Investor), Yash Mehta (Angel Investor)
\n\u2013<\/p>\n
25 May 2026
\nYoho
\nEcommerce
\nD2C
\nB2C
\n\u2013
\n\u2013
\nGulf Islamic Investments (GII), Rukam Capital, Rajeev Misra (ex-Softbank), Vijay Shekhar Sharma (Paytm)
\n\u2013<\/p>\n
25 May 2026
\nPramatra Space
\nAdvanced Hardware & Technology
\nInternet Of Things (IoT) & Hardware
\nB2B
\n\u2013
\nPre-Seed
\nSeafund Ventures, Rebalance, Magnivia Ventures, Peaceful Progress Fund, Awais Ahmed (Pixxel Space), Techstars, Neel Mehta (Roh Ventures), Raghunath Das (Almagest Space), Bhavya Doshi (KRISS Portfolio)
\nSeafund Ventures<\/p>\n
26 May 2026
\nQuantum Tiger
\nAI
\nAI infrastructure & Development
\nB2B
\n\u2013
\n\u2013
\n\u2013
\n\u2013<\/p>\n
25 May 2026
\nGIVA
\nEcommerce
\nD2C
\nB2C
\n\u2013
\n\u2013
\nKriti Sanon (Actor)
\nKriti Sanon (Actor)<\/p>\n
Source: Inc42<\/p>\n
Key Startup Funding Highlights Of The Week<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
On the back of the week\u2019s biggest round, Fairdeal.Market\u2019s $15 Mn Series A funding, ecommerce emerged as the most funded segment this week. Four startups raised more than $21.4 Mn during the week.
\nAdvanced Hardware & Technology saw the second highest number of deals materialised this week. Three startups in the sector raised more than $2.4 Mn during the week.
\ncc.
\nSeed stage funding shrank to $1.6 Mn across three deals this week,\u00a0 marking a 78% decline from the $7.6 Mn raised by startups at this stage last week.<\/p>\n
Startup Fund Developments This Week<\/p>\n
Fundamentum cofounder Ashish Kumar has launched a new private investment platform, Fundamentum Frontier Advisors (F2A), with a VC fund of \u20b92,000 Cr<\/a> to invest in startups building in the deeptech and AI sector. The firm will also manage \u20b91,000 Cr in co-investments through a vehicle set up outside of India. ]]><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUMMARY This week, Indian startup funding stood at $52 Mn across 15 deals, down 44% from the preceding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[45,49,48,137,135954],"class_list":["post-710081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-funding-galore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPhysis Capital announced the final close of its maiden fund<\/a> at \u20b9400 Cr. The investor will back Pre-Series A to Series B stage startups across sectors with an average ticket size in the range of $1\u20133 Mn.
\nHimalaya Wealth Managers announced the launch of a new SEBI-registered Category I AIF, Himalaya SME Scheme-I<\/a>, with a corpus of \u20b9500 Cr to back SMEs operating in segments like aerospace and defense, industrial automation, healthcare and life sciences, agritech and food processing, electronics and semiconductors, renewable energy and EVs.<\/p>\n