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<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSUMMARY<\/p>\n
Fireside Ventures emerged as the most active investor this week, backing two startups \u2013 Unbound and Dev Milk Foods<\/p>\n
Seed-stage funding crashed almost 86% to $3.3 Mn this week compared to $22.9 Mn last week<\/p>\n
AI emerged as the most funded startup segment this week, with two startups raising $23 Mn in total<\/p>\n
Funding activity in the Indian startup ecosystem took a sharp hit this week. Homegrown new-age tech companies collectively managed to raise just $60.4 Mn across 15 deals between April 13 and 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This marks an 83% week-on-week decline from $361.5 Mn raised across 23 deals in the previous week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Funding Galore: Indian Startup Funding Of The Week [April 13 \u2014 17]<\/p>\n
Date
\nName
\nSector
\nSubsector
\nBusiness Model
\nFunding Round Size
\nFunding Round Type
\nInvestors
\nLead Investor<\/p>\n
16 Apr 2026
\nHosteller
\nTravel Tech
\nBooking Services
\nB2C
\n$16 Mn
\nSeries B
\nPROMAFT Partners, V3 Ventures, ITI Growth Opportunities Fund, Merisis Wealth Trust
\nPROMAFT Partners, V3 Ventures<\/p>\n
15 Apr 2026
\nGobbleCube
\nAI
\nApplication Layer
\nB2B
\n$15 Mn
\nSeries A
\nSusquehanna Venture Capital, Info Edge Ventures, Kae Capital
\nSusquehanna Venture Capital<\/p>\n
18 Apr 2026
\nHOCCO
\nEcommerce
\nD2C
\nB2C
\n$10.7 Mn
\n\u2013
\nSauce.vc
\nSauce.vc<\/p>\n
14 Apr 2026
\nTraqCheck
\nAI
\nApplication Layer
\nB2B
\n$8 Mn
\nSeries A
\nIvyCap Ventures, IIFL
\nIvyCap Ventures<\/p>\n
16 Apr 2026
\nAliste Technologies
\nClean Tech
\n\u2013
\nB2C
\n$3.2 Mn
\nPre-Series A
\nBig Global JSC, YourNest Venture Capital, Hbeon Labs
\nBig Global JSC<\/p>\n
16 Apr 2026
\nIntellithink
\nAdvanced Hardware & Technology
\nInternet Of Things (IoT) & Hardware
\nB2B
\n$1.8 Mn
\nSeed
\nPentathlon Ventures, Anicut Capital, Veltis Capital
\nPentathlon Ventures<\/p>\n
16 Apr 2026
\nSarla Aviation
\nAdvanced Hardware & Technology
\nAerial Vehicle
\nB2B
\n$1.1 Mn
\n\u2013
\nIndiGo Ventures
\nIndiGo Ventures<\/p>\n
15 Apr 2026
\nIvory
\nHealth Tech
\nDiagnostics
\nB2C
\n$1 Mn
\nSeed
\nDraper Associates, SAGE Venture Fund, MoSJE, IFCI Ventures, SIDBI
\n\u2013<\/p>\n
16 Apr 2026
\nUnbound
\nEcommerce
\nD2C
\nB2C
\n$862K
\n\u2013
\nFireside Ventures
\nFireside Ventures<\/p>\n
16 Apr 2026
\nFIFTH SENSE
\nEcommerce
\nD2C
\nB2C
\n$679K
\nPre-Seed
\nOTP Ventures, Sadev Ventures, ISV Capital, Rohit Kapoor (Swigyy), Amit Damani (StayVista)
\nOTP Ventures<\/p>\n
15 Apr 2026
\nSwageazy
\nEcommerce
\nD2C
\nB2B
\n$579K
\n\u2013
\nInfo Edge Ventures, OnGrid, HROne
\nInfo Edge Ventures<\/p>\n
16 Apr 2026
\nCohoma Coffee
\nEcommerce
\nD2C
\nB2B2C
\n$539K
\nSeed
\nInflection Point Ventures, Swishin VC
\nInflection Point Venture<\/p>\n
15 Apr 2026
\nHelium
\nReal Estate Tech
\nReal Estate Services
\nB2C
\n$539K
\n\u2013
\nAlbinder Dhindsa (Eternal), Kunal Shah (CRED), Pankaj Chaddah (Shyft), Mohit Gupta (COYU), Akriti Chopra (Eternal), Gunjan Patidar, Nitin Gupta (Uni Cards)<\/p>\n
13 Apr 2026
\nSmart Garage
\nConsumer Services
\nHyperlocal Services
\nB2C
\n$257K
\nPre-Series A
\n\u2013
\n\u2013<\/p>\n
16 Apr 2026
\nKingdomOfChess
\nEdtech
\nDigital Learning Platform
\nB2C
\n$177K
\n\u2013
\nBeyondSeed Angel Fund, Arjun Vaidya (V3 Ventures), Rakesh Amerneni (RevOptic), Jai Ostwal, Vikrant Potnis (FundEnable), FBSPL, Aeroflex Enterprises
\nBeyondSeed Angel Fund<\/p>\n
13 Apr 2026
\nDev Milk Foods
\nEcommerce
\nD2C
\nB2C
\n\u2013
\n\u2013
\nFireside Ventures, Narotam Sekhsaria Family Office
\n\u2013<\/p>\n
Source: Inc42<\/p>\n
Key Startup Funding Highlights Of The Week<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The ecommerce sector minted six deals during the period under review, yet it managed to raise only $13 Mn in total. Ice cream brand HOCCO raised $10.7 Mn from Sauce.vc, which emerged as the largest deal in the segment this week
\nAI emerged as the most funded startup segment this week, with two startups raising $23 Mn in total.
\nFireside Ventures emerged as the most active investor this week, backing two startups \u2013 Unbound and Dev Milk Foods.
\nSeed-stage funding crashed almost 86% to $3.3 Mn this week compared to $22.9 Mn last week.<\/p>\n
Other Developments This Week<\/p>\n
Ecommerce giant Flipkart is planning to raise a pre-IPO<\/a> round of $2 Bn to $2.5 Bn from Indian as well as foreign investors.\u00a0 ]]><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUMMARY Fireside Ventures emerged as the most active investor this week, backing two startups \u2013 Unbound and Dev…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[114,293,90623,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-402421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship","10":"tag-funding-galore","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402421","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=402421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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