Once booming Indian startups set for more pain as funding crunch worsensStartups in India raised just $2 bn in the first quarter of 2023, 75% lower than the same period of last year, and the smallest quarterly n...
19 Apr, 2023, 09.41 PM IST
Early-stage dealmaking hits a crescendo as investors flock to IndiaIndia’s early-stage startups raised more capital in October-December 2021 than all of the fundraising in 2020, according to a CB Insights r...
13 Jan, 2022, 07.38 PM IST
Crypto firms got more funding last quarter than in all of 2020The funding surge is happening as Bitcoin hits record highs, and with companies such as Tesla diving into the currency.
03 Apr, 2021, 10.05 AM IST
Venture capital hits record high in US in 2020 despite pandemicWhile the investment total is up 14% from 2019, the number of deals is down 9% to 6,022. And so-called mega-rounds, deals that are $100 mil...
08 Jan, 2021, 11.46 AM IST
CB Insights scouting for potential acquisitions in IndiaThis was its second acquisition. It acquired the data assets of VentureSource - a portfolio of information relating to venture capital mark...
18 Sep, 2020, 05.37 PM IST
Smart money said ‘Skip Bitcoin, bet on Blockchain.’ Not any moreSo far, traditional venture capital investments in blockchain companies have totaled $784 million via 227 deals, according to CB Insights.
18 Jul, 2019, 08.53 AM IST
Raising funds? Not all investor money has the same colourSmart Capital tends to retain its true hue even in the most trying time - a hue that exudes, patience, support, and strong alignment with t...
11 Mar, 2019, 12.43 PM IST
VCs plowed a record $9.3 billion into AI startups last yearThe surge comes after three years of steadily increasing investment, with the average annual increase from 2015 to 2017 at 28 percent.
09 Jan, 2019, 10.50 AM IST
Early-stage deals hit as unicorns reap benefitsInvestment tracker, CB Insights noted that India closed just $206 million of angel- and seed-stage deals in 2017- a decline from the $283 m...
28 Nov, 2018, 11.04 AM IST
Bengaluru, Delhi top in startup fundingThe report said the Japanese company’s portfolio includes more than 65 companies in the Asian hubs, showing how a single investor has prope...
10 Jul, 2018, 11.27 AM IST
Meet heavylifters of startuplandOver the past five years, 79 per cent of the startup deals have come from companies based in Bengaluru, Delhi and Mumbai.
25 Aug, 2017, 01.22 AM IST
Billion dollar startups: Who has the maximum Unicorns in its kitty?The competition between investors to back unicorns is intensifying with top investors increasing their claims and traditional investors ent...
03 Feb, 2017, 03.39 PM IST
Global VC-backed fintech funding declines, but Asia investment reaches new high: KPMG and CB Insights"Fintech funding is down this quarter, but it in no way reflects a lack of interest among investors, particularly corporates who see fintec...
21 Nov, 2016, 12.29 PM IST
VC funding in startups falls to two-year low in 2016: ReportAlthough the deal volume is still quite healthy by pre-2014 standards, this was the lowest quarter of deal funding since Q3 2014.
13 Oct, 2016, 05.18 PM IST
India's tech funding drought makes China's look benign: GadflyIndia's portion of total Asian fund-raising deals has remained steady but its share of the money has more than halved, to just 7.9%.
21 Jul, 2016, 09.39 AM IST
Startups witness a sharp fall this quarterThis sector has seen a fall of 59% in funding.Investors are taking time to evaluate bootstrap funding, which has created some challenges fo...
20 Jul, 2016, 02.36 PM IST
Anand Sanwal's CB Insights makes a mark in startup world, eyes India market“Instead of manually doing analysis on a few company like the pundits at McKinsey do, we do it algorithmically for tens of thousands of com...
24 Jul, 2015, 02.28 PM IST