Recently Funded Series A Startups in India
Updated Aug 2026
Funded Series A startups in India number 494 in FundedIQ, tracked with their funding rounds, amounts, investors, industries, locations and company details. This page provides an overview of the Series A startup funding landscape in India, along with the 100 most recently funded Series A startups in India.
Series A startups in India closed 193 funding rounds over the last 24 months, 102 of them in the last 12 months, and raised $1.8B in disclosed capital. The median disclosed round is $6.0M, with the middle half of rounds falling between $4.4M and $12M. Financial Services, Commerce and Shopping and Artificial Intelligence hold the most companies by sector. Bangalore and Mumbai hold the deepest concentrations of these companies.
Financial Services and Commerce and Shopping dominate this group, though Artificial Intelligence and Health Care add specialized depth. Bangalore and Mumbai lead the geographic spread. Since most companies fall into mid-sized headcount brackets, filtering by sub-sector provides a cleaner way to isolate scale. This composition means a focus on fintech or retail captures the largest portion of the market.
Series A funded startup statistics in India
Most recent funding round on record: Aug 2026. Investors appearing most often across India funding rounds: Chiratae Ventures, Inflection Point Ventures, Lightspeed India Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, Peak XV Partners.
100 most recently funded Series A startups in India
100 of 494Ordered 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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Series A startup funding trends in India
Funding activity
Series A startups in India closed 193 funding rounds over the last 24 months, 102 of them in the last 12, adding up to $1.8B in disclosed capital.
Round sizes
The median disclosed round is $6.0M, with the middle half running from $4.4M to $12M. 189 of 193 rounds disclosed an amount.
Sectors
Financial Services, Commerce and Shopping and Artificial Intelligence hold the most companies, led by Financial Services at 54. The most common headcount band across the segment is 11-50.
Investors
Chiratae Ventures, Inflection Point Ventures and Lightspeed India Partners appear most often across funded Series A startups in India on record.
Industries with the most funded Series A startups in India
Sector counts across all 494 tracked companies in India. A company assigned more than one industry is counted in each.
Where are funded Series A startups located in India?
Where funded Series A startups in India are based, by the city on the company record.
Funded Series A startups in India by state
The states with the most funded startups on record.
Top investors in Series A startups in India
The investors named most often across funded Series A 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 Series A 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 494 funded Series A 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 (4 of 193 in that period) are counted as rounds but excluded from capital totals and from the median. The most recent round on record for funded Series A startups in India is dated Aug 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 Series A startups are there in India?
FundedIQ tracks 494 funded Series A 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 Series A startups in India raised?
Series A startups in India tracked by FundedIQ have raised $1.8B in disclosed capital across 193 funding rounds over the last 24 months, including 102 rounds in the last 12 months. 189 of those 193 rounds disclosed an amount; undisclosed rounds are excluded from the capital total.
What industries have the most funded Series A startups in India?
Financial Services has the most, with 54 companies, followed by Commerce and Shopping (47), Artificial Intelligence (36) and Apps (27). Sector counts include every company assigned that industry, and a company can carry more than one.
Which cities have the most funded Series A startups in India?
Bangalore leads with 161 companies, then Mumbai (76), Gurgaon (69) and New Delhi (51).
Which investors back the most Series A startups in India?
Chiratae Ventures, Inflection Point Ventures, Lightspeed India Partners, Nexus Venture Partners and Peak XV Partners appear most often across funded Series A 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 Series A startups in India?
The median disclosed round over the last 24 months is $6.0M, and the middle half of rounds fall between $4.4M and $12M. Round sizes vary widely by stage, so the seed and later-stage bands sit well either side of that figure.
How often is the Series A 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 Series A startups in India is dated Aug 2026. Counts and totals on this page are recomputed on every refresh.
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