India’s funding round sizes over the past 5 years

Are larger checks for startups a good thing? The answer is complex: More money sucking up large chunks of equity may demotivate founders, while less money forces startups to spend prudently.

One thing’s clear though: Large checks are doled out when there’s easy money, whereas soaring interest rates mean investors are slower to back companies.

For startups, understanding how much their peers are raising could be crucial when they’re pitching to investors. We hope these charts serve as a useful baseline for deeper research.

Here, we cover the funding round sizes for Indian startups over the past five years. We limited the data to seed, pre-series A, series A to E, and late-stage rounds.