Indian startups appeal to $10.14 billion in funding in 2020: Report

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Indian startups are estimated to have obtained USD 10.14 billion in funding throughout greater than 1,200 offers in 2020 regardless of the COVID disaster, a report by consulting agency HexGn mentioned. Even although the full funding obtained in 2020 is decrease than that of 2019 (USD 14.5 billion), the variety of offers had been increased by 20 per cent, the report mentioned.
“Weathering negative sentiment, seed stage investment deals grew by 50 per cent from USD 353 million over 420 deals in 2019 to USD 372 million over 672 deals in 2020. This is a good sign for people looking to plunge into startups, as early-stage investors are now keen to back risk-takers early on,” the report famous.
This might be attributed to the work executed by Invest India, Startup India, AgNii and different businesses of the Indian authorities to spice up investor confidence and entrepreneurial tradition, it added.
This is the third yr in a row that India has stored its quantity 4 place globally after the US, China and the UK.
Globally, startups raised over USD 308 billion in funding, with the US garnering USD 165 billion.
The report mentioned Bengaluru, Delhi NCR and Mumbai accounted for 90 per cent of the startup investments within the nation, signalling focus of angel buyers and urge for food in these areas.

Bengaluru led with USD 4.3 billion in startup investments, adopted by Delhi NCR (USD 3 billion) and Mumbai (USD 2 billion).
In phrases of sectors, e-commerce attracted the best funding with USD 3 billion, adopted by fintech at USD 2.37 billion and edtech at USD 1.52 billion.
The largest gainer has been the edtech section that grew 4 instances this yr from USD 380 million in 2019.
However, sectors like transportation and logistics, and journey and tourism noticed greater than 90 per cent drop in investments in 2020 as in comparison with 2019, it added.
Startups that attracted most funding in 2020 embrace Zomato (USD 1.02 billion), Byju’s (USD 922 million), Phonepe (USD 807 million), Unacademy (USD 260 million) and Ecom Express (USD 250 million), as per the HexGn report.
These numbers don’t embrace funds raised by Jio Platforms (Rs 1.52 lakh crore) in 2020. The report famous that these numbers are early steerage and there may very well be modifications as extra firms make bulletins on funds obtained.
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