PC: IdeaBuddy
Between March 17 to March 22 of 2025 Indian startups obtained approximately $176.44 million in funding through 25 investment deals. A total of $176.44 million funding came from 25 deals during the week of March 17-22 2025. Five deals supported growth-stage startups while fifteen supported early-stage startups but five startups chose to maintain funding secrecy. Startups elevated $462.27 million during the earlier week from 19 funding rounds but chose to lower their investment to $176.44 million distributed across 25 rounds this week.
Growth-Stage Deals
In the growth-stage funding segment, notable deals included:
– Euler Motors: The company received $60 million worth of funding from Hero MotoCorp for developing electric commercial vehicles.
-Nivara Home Finance received $28 million in funding from True North during their Series B financing event to expand its housing loan business operations.
-Pilgrim functions as a D2C personal care and beauty brand that acquired $23 million in funding.
-Stage and Otipy emerged as other participants along with the regional OTT platform. Both startups received funding during the period.
Early-Stage Deals
The early-stage funding landscape saw 15 startups collectively raise $50.94 million. Key highlights included:
– Navadhan: The startup targeted rural areas of India to obtain early-stage funding worth $12.8 million.
-Everhope Oncology attracted substantial investment through its healthtech operations.
– Protectt.ai: A cybersecurity and fraud control platform that
also received funding.
-Go Zero joined other startup investments as Go Zero launched alongside Slikk and several D2C brands named GoOAT and Upedd though they did not share their funding details.
City and Segment Insights
– City-wise: The number of start-up deals in Mumbai reached 7 while Delhi-NCR and Bengaluru and Hyderabad maintained 3 deals each.
-The foodtech industry achieved top position with five investment deals while healthtech received three deals and fintech and e-commerce along with AI and robotics both gained funding.
Mergers and Acquisitions
The payments and fintech unit PayU owned by Prosus acquired 43.5% ownership of Mindgate Solutions which provides real-time payments technology services. The e-commerce SaaS company Unicommerce made a full acquisition of Shipway to strengthen its position within the logistics sector.
Fund Launches and Other Developments
Several funds were launched or expanded during this week:
– Venturi Partners:The organization started its second investment fund aiming to reach $225 million.
– All In Capital: Launched its second fund with a target corpus of Rs 300 crore.
-Together with Gruhas they launched The Earth Fund which concentrates on sustainability and proptech as its main investment focus.
Wealthtech platform Dezerv initiated an ESOP buyback program that offered Rs 46 crore ($5.3 million) to its personnel. The week marked the decline of farm-to-fork startup Deep Rooted even though the company previously shifted operations from B2B to B2C.
The Indian startup funding situation during this week demonstrates a careful strategy and major investment activities in early-stage and growth stages due to uncertain market dynamics.
