Recently Funded Seed Startups in India
Updated Oct 2026
FundedIQ tracks 1,353 funded Seed startups in India, with their funding rounds, amounts, investors, industries, locations and company details. This page provides an overview of the Seed startup funding landscape in India, along with the 100 most recently funded Seed startups in India.
The median disclosed round is $1.5M, with the middle half of rounds falling between $893K and $3.0M. Artificial Intelligence, Commerce and Shopping and Financial Services hold the most companies by sector. Bangalore and Mumbai hold the deepest concentrations of these companies. Seed startups in India closed 520 funding rounds over the last 24 months, 251 of them in the last 12 months, and raised $973M in disclosed capital.
Seed ventures in India center on Artificial Intelligence and Commerce. These companies lean toward mid-sized teams based in Bengaluru. This scale indicates a transition from early prototyping to active team building. Such organizations possess a professional structure but lack the bureaucracy of later stages, making them ideal targets for vendors providing scalable infrastructure or growth tools.
Seed funded startup statistics in India
Most recent funding round on record: Oct 2026. Investors appearing most often across India funding rounds: Inflection Point Ventures, Rainmatter Capital, Alteria Capital, Antler India, Better Capital.
100 most recently funded Seed startups in India
100 of 1,353Ordered by the date of the latest funding round. Each row gives the company, its location and industry, what it does, the stage and date of that round, and the disclosed amount.
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Seed startup funding trends in India
Funding activity
Seed startups in India closed 520 funding rounds over the last 24 months, 251 of them in the last 12, adding up to $973M in disclosed capital.
Round sizes
The median disclosed round is $1.5M, with the middle half running from $893K to $3.0M. 446 of 520 rounds disclosed an amount.
Sectors
Artificial Intelligence, Commerce and Shopping and Financial Services hold the most companies, led by Artificial Intelligence at 146. The most common headcount band across the segment is 11-50.
Investors
Inflection Point Ventures, Rainmatter Capital and Alteria Capital appear most often across funded Seed startups in India on record.
Industries with the most funded Seed startups in India
Sector counts across all 1,353 tracked companies in India. A company assigned more than one industry is counted in each.
Where are funded Seed startups located in India?
Where funded Seed startups in India are based, by the city on the company record.
Funded Seed startups in India by state
The states with the most funded startups on record.
Top investors in Seed startups in India
The investors named most often across funded Seed startups in India.
Counts companies in this segment that name the firm as a backer. Investor names entered the pipeline in July 2026, so they cover the companies funded since.
About the FundedIQ Seed startup funding data in India
FundedIQ tracks announced startup funding rounds and organises them by company, funding date, stage, amount, industry, location and investor. The dataset is refreshed weekly, and new rounds are normalised and de-duplicated before they are published, so the same round reported twice on different dates is recorded once.
Figures on this page cover the 1,353 funded Seed startups in India currently tracked. Round counts, capital totals and the median round are computed over a trailing 24 months. Rounds whose amount was not disclosed (74 of 520 in that period) are counted as rounds but excluded from capital totals and from the median. The most recent round on record for funded Seed startups in India is dated Oct 2026.
The table above shows the 100 most recently funded companies. Full funding histories, investor lists and founder contacts across the whole dataset open on a FundedIQ plan.
Frequently asked questions
How many funded Seed startups are there in India?
FundedIQ tracks 1,353 funded Seed startups in India. This page lists the 100 most recently funded of them, ordered by the date of their latest round, and the full set is available on a FundedIQ plan.
How much funding have Seed startups in India raised?
Seed startups in India tracked by FundedIQ have raised $973M in disclosed capital across 520 funding rounds over the last 24 months, including 251 rounds in the last 12 months. 446 of those 520 rounds disclosed an amount; undisclosed rounds are excluded from the capital total.
What industries have the most funded Seed startups in India?
Artificial Intelligence has the most, with 146 companies, followed by Commerce and Shopping (127), Financial Services (125) and Education (69). Sector counts include every company assigned that industry, and a company can carry more than one.
Which cities have the most funded Seed startups in India?
Bangalore leads with 432 companies, then Mumbai (191), New Delhi (143) and Gurgaon (131).
Which investors back the most Seed startups in India?
Inflection Point Ventures, Rainmatter Capital, Alteria Capital, Antler India and Better Capital appear most often across funded Seed startups in India in the FundedIQ dataset. The count is the number of tracked companies naming each firm as a backer, so it reflects the companies on record rather than every deal a firm has ever done.
What is a typical funding round size for Seed startups in India?
The median disclosed round over the last 24 months is $1.5M, and the middle half of rounds fall between $893K and $3.0M. Round sizes vary widely by stage, so the seed and later-stage bands sit well either side of that figure.
How often is the Seed startup funding data in India updated?
The dataset is refreshed weekly. New rounds are normalised and de-duplicated before they are published, and the most recent round currently on record for funded Seed startups in India is dated Oct 2026. Counts and totals on this page are recomputed on every refresh.
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