Sahyadri Startups Weekly Tracker: India Startup Funding Falls 70.08% to $43.4 Million During July 24–30

Pune: India’s startup ecosystem witnessed a sharp decline in funding activity during the week of July 24–30, 2026, according to the Sahyadri Startups Weekly Tracker prepared in collaboration with Tracxn.

The Sahyadri Startups Weekly Tracker reported that startups raised $43.4 million across seven funding rounds, representing a 70.08% decline compared with the previous week’s $144.9 million and an 87.19% drop from the $338.4 million recorded during July 10–16, 2026.

The Sahyadri Startups Weekly Tracker shows that despite the slowdown in overall funding value, investment activity continued across seed, early-stage and late-stage companies.

During the current period, late-stage funding accounted for 55.3% of the total funding, followed by early-stage funding at 23.0% and seed-stage funding at 21.7%.

The report indicates that startups collectively secured $43.3588 million during the week, significantly lower than the $144.903 million raised in the previous week and the $338.436 million recorded in the week before that.

Stage-wise funding

According to the Sahyadri Startups Weekly Tracker, funding across investment stages during July 24–30, 2026 was as follows:

• Late-stage funding: $23.96 million (55.3%)
• Early-stage funding: $9.98 million (23.0%)
• Seed-stage funding: $9.42 million (21.7%)

For comparison:

July 17–23, 2026

• Late-stage: 52.7%
• Early-stage: 41.7%
• Seed-stage: 5.6%

July 10–16, 2026

• Late-stage: 86.6%
• Early-stage: 10.5%
• Seed-stage: 2.9%

The report notes that seed funding includes Seed and Angel rounds, early-stage funding includes Series A and Series B, while late-stage funding includes Series C+, Private Equity, Pre-IPO and Unattributed rounds.

Also Read: Sahyadri Startups Weekly Tracker Reports USD 106M Raised by Indian Startups in 17 Jul – 23 Jul 2026

Top funding deals

The Sahyadri Startups Weekly Tracker identified the following as the largest funding rounds during the week:

• Lohum – $24.0 million
• Fixxly – $5.5 million
• Omega Seiki Mobility – $5.2 million
• Revspot – $4.8 million
• SUIND – $2.2 million
• Yaanendriya – $1.6 million
• Gomyneed – $0.2 million
• Most active venture capital firms

The report lists the following investors as the most active venture capital firms during the period, each participating in one funding round:

• Info Edge Ventures – Invested in Revspot
• Transition VC – Invested in SUIND
• Fireside Ventures – Invested in Fixxly
• IPOs and acquisitions

The Sahyadri Startups Weekly Tracker recorded:

• 0 tech IPOs
• 3 acquisitions

This compares with:

• Previous week: 1 IPO and 0 acquisitions
• July 10–16, 2026: 1 IPO and 3 acquisitions

The report states that the current week witnessed three acquisitions and no tech IPOs.

The acquisitions recorded during the week were:

• Optum by TPG on July 27
• Berrylush by Snitch on July 27
• Evolve on July 24

Funding trend over the past 12 months

According to the Sahyadri Startups Weekly Tracker, monthly startup funding has fluctuated considerably over the past year.

The report notes that it has considered only equity rounds and technology companies for its analysis.