Weekly funding activity remained volatile in the world’s third-largest startup ecosystem. Between May 22 and 25, 14 Indian startups collectively raised $52 Mn, marking a 44% decline from the $92.2 Mn secured across 17 deals in the previous week.
Notably, four funding deals announced during the week did not disclose the amount raised.
Funding Galore: Indian Startup Funding Of The Week [May 25 — May 29]
Date
Name
Sector
Subsector
Business Model
Funding Round Size
Funding Round Type
Investors
Lead Investor
26 May 2026
Fairdeal.Market
Ecommerce
Horizontal Marketplace
B2B
$15 Mn
Series A
Bertelsmann India Investments, WaterBridge Ventures, Incubate Asia Fund
Bertelsmann India Investments
25 May 2026
StrainX Bioworks
Health Tech
Lifescience
B2B
$13 Mn
–
Prime Venture Partners, Leo Capital, Good Startup, Sparrow Capital, Sun Icon Ventures, Dholakia Ventures, WindT Angels
Prime Venture Partners, Leo Capital
27 May 2026
TIEA Connectors
Enterprise Services
Manufacturing Solutions
B2B
$8 Mn
Series A
IvyCap Ventures, Jamwant Ventures, 8X Ventures
IvyCap Ventures
25 May 2026
abCoffee
Ecommerce
D2C
B2C
$6.4 Mn
Pre-Series B
Kliff Ventures, Hero Enterprise Partner Ventures, Merisis Venture Fund, Stride Ventures
Kliff Ventures
25 May 2026
Yes Madam
Consumer Services
Hyperlocal Services
B2C
$5.2 Mn
–
Info Edge Ventures
Info Edge Ventures
28 May 2026
C2i Semiconductors
Advanced Hardware & Technology
Semiconductor
B2B
$1.7 Mn*
Series A
TDK Ventures
TDK Ventures
26 May 2026
Flexprice
AI
Application Layer
B2B
$1.5 Mn
Seed
Shastra VC, Anupam Mittal (People Group), TDV Partners
Shastra VC, Anupam Mittal (People Group)
28 May 2026
ZeroDrag Technologies
Advanced Hardware & Technology
Aerial Vehicle
B2B
$682K
–
Transition VC
Transition VC
28 May 2026
Eazzy
Consumer Services
Hyperlocal Services
B2C
$440K
–
–
–
26 May 2026
Bucketlistt
Travel Tech
Booking Services
B2C
$112K
Pre-Seed
Arvind Choudhar (Angel Investor), Aenik Shah (Angel Investor), Kartik Khatri (Angel Investor), Yash Mehta (Angel Investor)
–
25 May 2026
Yoho
Ecommerce
D2C
B2C
–
–
Gulf Islamic Investments (GII), Rukam Capital, Rajeev Misra (ex-Softbank), Vijay Shekhar Sharma (Paytm)
–
25 May 2026
Pramatra Space
Advanced Hardware & Technology
Internet Of Things (IoT) & Hardware
B2B
–
Pre-Seed
Seafund Ventures, Rebalance, Magnivia Ventures, Peaceful Progress Fund, Awais Ahmed (Pixxel Space), Techstars, Neel Mehta (Roh Ventures), Raghunath Das (Almagest Space), Bhavya Doshi (KRISS Portfolio)
Seafund Ventures
26 May 2026
Quantum Tiger
AI
AI infrastructure & Development
B2B
–
–
–
–
25 May 2026
GIVA
Ecommerce
D2C
B2C
–
–
Kriti Sanon (Actor)
Kriti Sanon (Actor)
Source: Inc42
Key Startup Funding Highlights Of The Week
- On the back of the week’s biggest round, Fairdeal.Market’s $15 Mn Series A funding, ecommerce emerged as the most funded segment this week. Four startups raised more than $21.4 Mn during the week.
- Advanced Hardware & Technology saw the second highest number of deals materialised this week. Three startups in the sector raised more than $2.4 Mn during the week.
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- Seed stage funding shrank to $1.6 Mn across three deals this week, marking a 78% decline from the $7.6 Mn raised by startups at this stage last week.
Startup Fund Developments This Week
- Fundamentum cofounder Ashish Kumar has launched a new private investment platform, Fundamentum Frontier Advisors (F2A), with a VC fund of ₹2,000 Cr to invest in startups building in the deeptech and AI sector. The firm will also manage ₹1,000 Cr in co-investments through a vehicle set up outside of India.
- Physis Capital announced the final close of its maiden fund at ₹400 Cr. The investor will back Pre-Series A to Series B stage startups across sectors with an average ticket size in the range of $1–3 Mn.
- Himalaya Wealth Managers announced the launch of a new SEBI-registered Category I AIF, Himalaya SME Scheme-I, with a corpus of ₹500 Cr to back SMEs operating in segments like aerospace and defense, industrial automation, healthcare and life sciences, agritech and food processing, electronics and semiconductors, renewable energy and EVs.
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