Pune: India’s startup ecosystem recorded $126 million in funding during the week of May 1 to May 7, 2026, according to the latest India Weekly Funding Tracker released by Sahyadri Startups in collaboration with Tracxn.
The India Weekly Funding Tracker highlighted a 22.51% decline in weekly funding compared to the previous week, which had recorded $163 million in startup investments.
Despite the weekly dip, the India Weekly Funding Tracker showed that funding activity remained significantly higher than the $31.7 million raised during the week of April 17 to April 23, 2026. The current period reflected a 298.48% increase compared to that earlier week.
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India Weekly Funding Tracker: Seed, Early-Stage and Late-Stage Funding Trends
The India Weekly Funding Tracker showed changing dynamics across funding stages during the reporting period.
For the week of May 1 to May 7, 2026:
- Late-stage funding accounted for 47.5% of total investments.
- Early-stage funding contributed 31.9%.
- Seed-stage funding made up 20.6%.
In comparison, during the previous week of April 24 to April 30, 2026:
- Early-stage funding dominated with 61.9%.
- Late-stage funding stood at 34.4%.
- Seed-stage funding contributed 3.7%.
The week of April 17 to April 23, 2026, had seen seed-stage funding contributing the highest share at 72.6%, while late-stage funding accounted for 27.4%.
India Weekly Funding Tracker: Skyroot Aerospace Leads Weekly Funding Deals
According to the India Weekly Funding Tracker, space-tech startup Skyroot Aerospace emerged as the largest funding deal of the week after securing $60 million.
Other major funding rounds during the week included:
- Pronto — $20 million
- XCaliber — $6.5 million
- BigEndian — $6 million
- CHOSEN — $5 million
- Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence — $5 million
- Aurm — $4.4 million
- Kisah — $3.8 million
- Alphadroid — $3.8 million
- Jurisphere — $2.2 million
The India Weekly Funding Tracker also highlighted continued investor participation from active venture capital firms.
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India Weekly Funding Tracker: Most Active Venture Capital Firms
The report identified the following firms among the most active investors during the week:
- Alkemi Growth Capital — investments in CHOSEN, Nowound and Alphadroid
- Fireside Ventures — investments in Kisah and CHOSEN
- Pavestone Capital — investment in Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence
- IPOs and Acquisitions
The India Weekly Funding Tracker noted that the current period saw one acquisition and no tech IPOs.
The acquisition recorded during the week was:
- Le Mill acquired by Burgundy Brand Collective on May 1, 2026
The tracker further showed that the previous week had witnessed three acquisitions, while the week before that recorded one acquisition.
Funding Trend Over the Last 12 Months
The India Weekly Funding Tracker also mapped monthly startup funding trends over the past year.
Monthly funding volumes recorded were:
- June 2025 — $1004 million
- July 2025 — $913 million
- August 2025 — $1275 million
- September 2025 — $873 million
- October 2025 — $1343 million
- November 2025 — $617 million
- December 2025 — $761 million
- January 2026 — $1096 million
- February 2026 — $1148 million
- March 2026 — $2062 million
- April 2026 — $566 million
- May 2026 (till May 7) — $126 million
The analysis considered only equity rounds and technology companies.
