Pune: India startup funding stood at $93.2 million across 19 funding rounds during the week of October 23–29, 2026, marking a 39.76% decline from the previous week, when startups raised $154.7 million across 20 rounds.
The latest India startup funding figure was also 53.14% lower than the $198.9 million raised during October 9–15.
According to the weekly funding tracker, the current period saw $93.19 million raised across 19 funding rounds.
This compares with $154.69 million in the previous week and $198.88 million in the week before that, indicating a continued decline in weekly India startup funding during the three-week period.
India Startup Funding Sees Early-Stage Rounds Dominate
Early-stage startups accounted for the largest share of India startup funding during the October 23–29 period, raising $68.27 million, or 73.3% of total funding.
Seed-stage funding stood at $24.92 million, accounting for 26.7% of the week’s total. There was no late-stage funding recorded during the period.
The stage-wise funding mix marked a shift from the previous week, when early-stage startups raised $138.15 million, seed-stage companies raised $6.54 million and late-stage funding stood at $10 million.
During October 9–15, seed-stage funding stood at $18.30 million, early-stage funding was $81.70 million and late-stage funding reached $98.87 million.
Cent Leads Top India Startup Funding Deals
Cent emerged as the largest funding round during the week, raising $15 million in a Series A round.
The Bengaluru-based preventive healthcare platform uses AI and advanced diagnostics to detect serious diseases.
Clinics On Cloud followed with $14.26 million, while Bengaluru-based AI inference and deployment platform Simplismart raised $14 million in a Series B round.
Live2.ai secured $13.67 million in a Series A round, while Matiks raised $10 million in a seed round.
Other notable deals contributing to India startup funding during the week included Rotoris, which raised $8.5 million, followed by Tradl at $4.1 million, Zorit at $2.84 million, QwikBuild at $2.3 million and Nova Spectral AI at $2.25 million.
The remaining disclosed funding rounds included VAMA at $2.1 million, dubdub at $1.3 million, Paar Autonomy at $1.05 million, Bucketlistt at $0.8 million, Maasi at $0.63 million and SpectraGaze Systems at $0.39 million.
Three companies — CHOSEN, Glance and TENSRAI — also raised funding during the week, although the amounts were undisclosed.
Blume Ventures Among Most Active Investors
Blume Ventures emerged as one of the most active venture capital firms during the week, participating in rounds for Cent, Rotoris and QwikBuild.
Shastra participated in funding rounds for Simplismart and Nova Spectral AI, while Better Capital backed Zorit and Maasi.
Other investors participating in the week’s funding rounds included South Park Commons, DallasVC, NVIDIA, Accel, IvyCap Ventures, General Catalyst, Info Edge, TanglinVP, Untitled Ventures, 100X.VC, Centricity, Nexus Venture Partners, Stellaris Venture Partners and SparrowVC.
India Startup Funding Week Records One Acquisition and Three IPOs
The week recorded one acquisition and three technology IPOs.
AI Shield, a provider of AI security solutions for machine learning and generative AI applications, was acquired by Protectt.ai on October 26, 2026. The acquisition price was undisclosed.
The three companies that went public during the week were SMT, Tonbo Imaging and Zetwerk.
SMT, founded in 1998 and headquartered in Surat, manufactures minimally invasive cardiovascular devices, including coronary and structural heart products.
Bengaluru-based Tonbo Imaging, founded in 2003, develops electro-optical and infrared sensing and imaging systems.
Zetwerk, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Bengaluru, manufactures industrial components for the energy, electronics and aerospace sectors.
India Startup Funding Over the Last 12 Months
The tracker also shows the monthly India startup funding trend over the last 12 months.
Funding stood at $1.07 billion in November 2025, followed by $945 million in December 2025, $1.28 billion in January 2026 and $1.17 billion in February 2026.
March 2026 recorded the highest monthly funding in the tracker at $2.409 billion. Funding then stood at $707 million in April, $784 million in May and $1.822 billion in June.
The monthly total was $1.215 billion in July, $976 million in August, $783 million in September and $576 million in October 2026.
The Tracxn-Sahyadri Startups weekly tracker notes that it considers only equity rounds and technology companies for the funding analysis.
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