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Between Jan 5 and 9, 19 startups managed to secure a fresh capital of $68.4 Mn, representing a near 34% declined from the $104.2 Mn bagged by two startups in the preceding week<\/p>\n
With Even Healthcare bagging the largest cheque of $20 Mn, healthtech sector topped the weekly funding charts. Two startups from the space secured $20.4 Mn during the week<\/p>\n
Ecommerce sector continued to dominate funding deal trends this week, with five D2C startups raising $9.7 Mn<\/p>\n
After attaining relative stability in the year 2025, Indian startup funding trends were rather muted in the first week of 2026. Between Jan 5 and 9, 19 startups managed to secure a fresh capital of $68.4 Mn, representing a near 34% declined from the $104.2 Mn bagged by Arya.ag and Knight Fintech in the preceding week.<\/p>\n
Funding Galore: Indian Startup Funding Of The Week [ Jan 5 \u2013 9 ]<\/p>\n
Date
\nName
\nSector
\nSubsector
\nBusiness Model
\nFunding Round Size
\nFunding Round Type
\nInvestors
\nLead Investor<\/p>\n
6 Jan 2026
\nEven Healthcare
\nHealth Tech
\nTelemedicine
\nB2C
\n$20 Mn
\n\u2013
\nLachy Groom, Alpha Wave, Sharrp Ventures
\n\u2013<\/p>\n
6 Jan 2026
\nSpeed
\nWeb3
\nDigital Currencies & Assets
\nB2C
\n$8 Mn
\n\u2013
\nTether Ventures, Ego Death Capital
\nTether Ventures<\/p>\n
8 Jan 2026
\nSpector.AI
\nAI
\nApplication Layer
\nB2B
\n$6.7 Mn
\n\u2013
\nIvyCap Ventures
\nIvyCap Ventures<\/p>\n
8 Jan 2026
\nTakeMe2Space
\nAdvanced Hardware & Technology
\nSpacetech
\nB2C
\n$5 Mn
\nSeed
\nChiratae Ventures, Artha Venture Fund, SeaFund, Unicorn India Ventures
\nChiratae Ventures<\/p>\n
7 Jan 2026
\nNitro Commerce
\nEnterprise tech
\nHorizontal SaaS
\nB2B
\n$5 Mn
\nSeries A
\nCornerstone Ventures, Ankurit Capital, Grand Anicut Angel Fund, Equentis Wealth Advisory Services, India Accelerator, Razorpay Ventures, Rukum Capital
\nCornerstone Ventures<\/p>\n
8 Jan 2026
\nAivar
\nAI
\nApplication Layer
\nB2B
\n$4.6 Mn
\nSeed
\nSorin Investments, Bessemer Venture Partners
\nSorin Investments<\/p>\n
7 Jan 2026
\nAntinorm
\nEcommerce
\nD2C
\nB2C
\n$3.1 Mn
\nSeed
\nFireside Ventures, V3 Ventures, Rukam Capital
\nFireside Ventures<\/p>\n
8 Jan 2026
\n&Done
\nEcommerce
\nD2C
\nB2C
\n$3 Mn
\nSeries A
\nRTP Global, Suashish, All In Capital, Kitty Agarwal, Kunal Bahl, Rohit Bansal,Puneet Kumar
\nRTP Global<\/p>\n
7 Jan 2026
\nArrowhead
\nAI
\nApplication Layer
\nB2B
\n$3 Mn
\nSeed
\nStellaris Venture Partners, Kunal Shah, Madhusudanan R
\nStellaris Venture Partners<\/p>\n
6 Jan 2026
\nSkinInspired
\nEcommerce
\nD2C
\nB2C
\n$2.7 Mn
\nSeries A
\nSpring Marketing Capital, Beauty Innovation Fund, Arihant Patni, Unilever Ventures.
\nSpring Marketing Capital<\/p>\n
7 Jan 2026
\nFlent
\nReal Estate Tech
\nReal Estate Services
\nB2C
\n$2.3 Mn
\nPre-Series A
\nIncubate Fund Asia, Twin & Bull Family Office, Stride Ventures, 91Ventures, Untitled VC, WEH Ventures
\nIncubate Fund Asia<\/p>\n
7 Jan 2026
\nRoadGrid
\nCleantech
\nElectric Vehicles
\nB2C
\n$1.5 Mn
\nPre-Series A
\nVenture Catalysts, Kamal Puri , IPV, FAAD Network, LetsVenture, Vrinda Goyal, Haresh Patel, Maneesh Shrivastav
\nVenture Catalysts<\/p>\n
6 Jan 2026
\nKayess Square
\nEnterprise Services
\nConsulting
\nB2B
\n$1.2 Mn
\n\u2013
\n\u2013
\n\u2013<\/p>\n
5 Jan 2026
\nMylapay
\nEnterprise Tech
\nHorizontal SaaS
\nB2B
\n$1 Mn
\nSeries A
\nCDM Capital and Credit Saison,GrowthCap Ventures, Pratekk Agarwaal
\n\u2013<\/p>\n
7 Jan 2026
\nBe Clinical
\nEcommerce
\nD2C
\nB2C
\n$720K
\nSeed
\nV3 Ventures, Titan Capital, Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal
\nV3 Ventures<\/p>\n
6 Jan 2026
\nOSSO
\nHealthtech
\nHealthcare SaaS
\nB2C
\n$443K
\nSeed
\nHaldiram Family Office, Sahil Jindal, Aakashdeep Goyal, Parijat Sharma, and Viraj Patel
\nHaldiram family Office<\/p>\n
5 Jan 2026
\nGOAT LIFE
\nEcommerce
\nD2C
\nB2C
\n$200K
\n\u2013
\nD2C Insider Super Angels ,Dhruv Kohli , Akash Gupta Vikram Ahuja, Consumer Collective, Rashi Agarwal, Aditya Agrawal, Akhil Kansal, Aayushi Khandelwal, Harsh Patel Venus Dhuria, Karan Kishorepuria
\n\u2013<\/p>\n
6 Jan 2026
\nLohia Aerospace Systems
\nAdvanced Hardware & Technology
\nAeriel Vehicles
\nB2B
\n\u2013
\n\u2013
\nSingularity AMC
\nSingularity AMC<\/p>\n
8 Jan 2026
\nProject Studio AI
\nReal Estate Tech
\nReal Estate Services
\nB2C
\n\u2013
\n\u2013
\nModulor Capital, We Founder Circle, EvolveX, Thapar Innovate
\nModular Capital<\/p>\n
Source: Inc42
Note: Only disclosed funding rounds have been included been included<\/p>\n
Key Startup Funding Highlights Of The Week<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
With Even Healthcare bagging the largest cheque of $20 Mn, healthtech sector topped the weekly funding charts. Two startups from the space secured $20.4 Mn during the week.
\nEcommerce sector continued to dominate funding deal trends this week, with five D2C startups raising $9.7 Mn.
\nA large chunk of the capital deployed during the week was concentrated around B2C startups, with these startups lapping up 70% of the overall weekly funds.
\nSeed staged startups secured $16.8 Mn\u00a0 in fresh capital across six funding deals this week.<\/p>\n
Other Developments Of The Week<\/p>\n
After filing its RHP<\/a> on Thursday, Amagi is now set to become the first new-age tech company to go public in 2026. The media SaaS giant has trimmed the fresh issue size by 25% to INR 816 Cr along with trimming the OFS component by 22% to 2.69 Cr shares. ]]><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUMMARY Between Jan 5 and 9, 19 startups managed to secure a fresh capital of $68.4 Mn, representing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[114,293,90623,85,46],"class_list":["post-233971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-funding-galore","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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