A minimum of 30 startups secured greater than $355 million this week, which included three growth-stage and 20 early-stage offers.
That is stupendous progress of at the very least 355 per cent from the earlier week, when the home startup ecosystem witnessed $105.87 million in fund-raising by 21 startups.
HR tech platform DarwinBox topped the chart with $140 million in Collection D spherical led by Companions Group and KKR. The spherical additionally noticed participation from Gravity Holdings.
Edtech platform Leap Finance secured $100 million debt facility from London headquartered-HSBC Financial institution beneath its ASEAN Development Fund. This follows Leap’s $65 million Collection E fairness spherical led by Apis Companions final month, taking it whole fundraise to over $400 million.
Insurtech startup InsuranceDekho secured $70 million, which was co-led by non-public fairness fund Beams Fintech Fund, Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Monetary Group (MUFG) and insurer BNP Paribas Cardif, by way of its insurtech fund managed by European funding main Eurazeo.
In the meantime, 20 early-stage startups secured funding price $45.02 million, led by income AI platform MaxIQ and enterprise tech startup Beacon.li, amongst others.
Bengaluru-based startups led with 12 offers adopted by Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and others.
Home startups raised a complete of practically Rs 13,800 crore ($1.65 billion) in February this yr, a 19.5 per cent enhance from practically Rs 11,460 crore ($1.38 billion) in January. The median valuation of those startups in February 2025 stood at Rs 61,216 crore ($83.2 billion).
Over the course of the 2024-25 monetary yr, Indian startups collectively raised Rs 21,062 crore ($25.4 billion) throughout 2,200 funding rounds.
In the meantime, the Indian tech startup ecosystem now ranks second, after the US, by way of all-time funding raised by firms with girls founders, with a complete of $26 billion on this area up to now. India is dwelling to over 7,000 energetic women-led startups, accounting for 7.5 per cent of all energetic startups within the nation.
