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YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Friday, July 3, 2026.
The sharp fall in venture capital funding in the first week of July was on expected lines, as the previous week saw the CRED transaction, which was a one-off large deal.
VC funding into Indian startups for the first six months of the year touched $6.9 billion, raising hopes that capital inflow will surpass 2025 levels by the end of the year. Meanwhile, Noida-based Addverb has grown alongside India's warehouse automation industry.
Selby's VC firm Copper Sky Capital is currently raising a $300 million second fund, according to a regulatory filing.
Kling AI, the video generation unit of Chinese tech company Kuaishou, has raised an initial two billion dollars in venture capital funding, the company said on Thursday. Further investors could still join the round, potentially pushing the total to roughly three billion dollars and diluting Kuaishou
Startups worldwide raised a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, according to a new report out today from market intelligence company Crunchbase Inc. The figure was more than investors put into venture deals across all of last year, when the total came to $440 billion. The first half also
Investors poured more than $200 billion into startups globally in the just-ended quarter, making Q2 2026 the second-largest quarter on record, our data shows. And, with IPOs and acquisitions returning in force, the second quarter notched one of the strongest periods for venture-backed exits in years
VC firm Sparrow Capital has closed its third fund with a corpus of ₹475 Cr (about ₹50 Mn), surpassing its…
Venture capital funding into Indian startups for the first six months of the year touched $6.9 billion, raising hopes that capital inflow will surpass 2025 levels by the end of the year.
About 60% of the corpus came from global endowments, foundations, funds of funds, and family offices, and the rest from startup founders, operators, Indian family offices, and high net worth individuals (HNIs). This marks a shift in Sparrow’s LP base, which was largely non-institutional in its earli
Sound built its reputation on concentrated, high-conviction bets in category-leading AI labs, while Kutcher's new fund appears to be chasing the layer underneath those companies — the infrastructure and energy that power them.
Despite persistent global macroeconomic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions, investor interest in the Indian startup ecosystem remained largely intact in the…
Venture capital firms are using AI the wrong way, argues Gilion's Henrik Landgren, who says that building better data infrastructure and connecting directly to sources like financial, payment and accounting systems would improve due diligence, help investors identify overlooked startups, and make in
Venture capital (VC) firm 3one4 Capital has banded together with British International Investment (BII) to float a new $15 Mn…
Startup exits valued at $1 billion or more are now more numerous than at any point since the 2021 market peak, Crunchbase data shows. The trend we’re seeing for the second quarter of 2026 includes both the largest venture-backed exit of all time and a bevy of other comparatively tinier but still siz
YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Monday, June 29, 2026.
Major crypto VCs are broadening their investment mandates. Here's what's driving the shift and what it means for the future of crypto VC.
In 2021, India witnessed a surge of 39 startups achieving unicorn status. Following a period of easy funding, these companies, including Cred and Meesho, now navigate a changed landscape marked by global uncertainties and investor caution. While some, like Cred, continue to secure significant invest
Indian startups are securing significantly larger seed and early-stage funding rounds, nearly doubling their average cheque size. This trend is driven by venture firms frontloading capital for more mature products, especially in AI, deeptech, and healthtech. While overall funding has seen a modest r
Venture capital funding into Indian startups crossed the $1-billion mark on a weekly basis for the first time since 2023 and this was primarily due to $900 million fund raise of CRED.
