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Funding momentum in the Indian startup ecosystem continued through the final week of September. Homegrown new-age tech ventures raised $233.6 Mn across 16 deals between September 28 and October 2. While funding rose 14.9% from the previous week, deal count declined 23.8%. Funding Galore: Indian Startup Funding Of The Week Date Name Sector Subsector Business Model Funding Round Size Funding Round Type Investors Lead Investor 30 Sep 2026 Simple Energy Clean Tech Electric Vehicles B2C $180 Mn Series C Dr. Arokiaswamy Velumani Family Office, Haran Family Office, Amit Mishra (Angel Investor), Suhas Rajkumar (Simple Energy), Ankit Gupta (Simple Energy) Dr. Arokiaswamy Velumani Family Office 30 Sep 2026 Gravity Real Estate Tech Real Estate Services B2B $15 Mn * - 3one4 Capital, Info Edge Ventures, Alteria Capital, Genesia Ventures 3one4 Capital, Info Edge Ventures 1 Oct 2026 Seeds Fincap Fintech Lending Tech B2B $10.4 Mn Series B Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Z47, Lok Capital, Norinchukin Capital, Alteria Capital Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 29 Sep 2026 Balwaan Krishi Agritech Farmtech B2B2C $10.4 Mn Series B First Bridge India Growth Fund Private Equity First Bridge India Growth Fund Private Equity 30 Sep 2026 Arivihan Edtech Digital Learning Platform B2C $10.2 Mn Series A Accel, Prosus Ventures, Dinesh Chandra Agrawal (Angel), Dinesh Gulati (Angel), Rajesh Sawhney (Angel) Accel, Prosus Ventures 30 Sep 2026 EDT Ecommerce D2C B2C $2.4 Mn Pre-Series A Sauce.VC, Alteria Capital, Raul Rai (Nicobar), Atomberg Shibam Das (Atomberg), Arindam Paul (Atomberg), Ajith Pai (Delhivery), Anushree Tainwala (Samsonite SA) Sauce.VC 1 Oct 2026 Banglore Watch Company Ecommerce D2C B2C $1.4 Mn Seed - - 28 Sep 2026 Alive App Consumer Services Listing & Discovery Services B2C $1 Mn - Powerhouse Ventures, Flipkart Ventures Powerhouse Ventures, Flipkart Ventures 30 Sep 2026 Vytalyou Health Tech In-Clinic Healthcare B2C $936K Pre-Series A Chetan Jain (Pharma Dose), Ratan Jain (Venus Industries) - 28 Sep 2026 Primerry Health Tech Pharmaceutical B2C $738K Pre-Seed Ashish Kacholia (Lucky Investment Managers), Lashit Sanghvi (Sixth Sense Ventures), Mohit Sadaani (Angel), Hitesh Dhingra(Angel), Ajay Mehra (Angel), Samir Palod (Angel) - 1 Oct 2026 Zaperon Enterprise Tech Horizontal SaaS B2B $728K Seed Inflection Point Ventures Inflection Point Ventures 1 Oct 2026 Aignosis Health Tech Diagnostics B2B $416K Seed Antler, Nikhil Kamath (Zerodha), Varun Dua (Angel), IIMA Ventures - 1 Oct 2026 Unveilr AI AI Application Layer B2B - Pre-Seed Aviral Bhatnagar (AJVC) Aviral Bhatnagar (AJVC) 29 Sep 2026 FIG Living Ecommerce D2C B2C - - Aman Gupta (boAt) Aman Gupta (boAt) 28 Sep 2026 Arovia Consumer Ecommerce Roll Ups B2C - - Fireside Ventures Fireside Ventures 28 Sep 2026 Keploy Enterprise Tech Horizontal SaaS B2B - - Flipkart Ventures Flipkart Ventures Source: Inc42 *Mix of equity and debt Key Startup Funding Highlights Of The Week Cleantech topped the funding charts this week, powered by the sole $180 Mn Series C round of electric vehicle (EV) maker Simple Energy. Proptech was the second-most funded sector this week as home interior startup Gravity bagged $15 Mn. Agritech and fintech followed at $10.4 Mn each, while edtech saw Arivihan raise $10.2 Mn. Ecommerce yet again led in deal activity, with four startups collectively raising $3.8 Mn. Early stage funding activity remained lukewarm this week as seed-stage and pre-seed startups raised $3.3 Mn across four deals. Alteria Capital emerged as the most active investor this week, backing three startups. Startup Fund Updates Of The Week Seed-stage VC firm WEH Ventures marked the first close of its third fund at an undisclosed amount. The fund is targeting a corpus of ₹250 Cr and is expected to close by mid-2027. VC firm Peak XV Partners launched the twelfth cohort of its Surge accelerator programme, which will incubate 18 startups across AI, robotics, space, consumer, healthcare and fintech. Seven Indian startups also made the cut. Startup M&A Updates Of The Week ITC completed the acquisition of Yoga Bar’s parent Sproutlife Foods. The FMCG giant has picked up the remaining 52.5% stake for around ₹645 Cr, taking its total shareholding in the D2C healthy food brand to 100%. Startup IPO Updates Of The Week Fintech unicorn Moneyview made a stellar stock market debut this week, with its shares listing at ₹55.6 on the BSE, a premium of 64% over the issue price of ₹34. On the NSE, the stock listed at ₹55, a premium of nearly 62% over its issue price. Led by NIIs, AceVector’s ₹420 Cr IPO was oversubscribed 4.93X on the final day of bidding, receiving bids for 36.61 Cr shares against 7.42 Cr shares on offer. It’s set to make its market debut on October 5. Defence tech startup Tonbo Imaging received SEBI’s nod for its proposed IPO, which consists solely of an OFS of up to 1.81 Cr equity shares. Used-car marketplace Cars24 expects to complete its reverse flip from Singapore to India by April 2027, after which it plans to file its DRHP for an IPO. StockGro’s parent AssetGro Fintech pre-filed its DRHP with SEBI via the confidential route for a proposed IPO. The potential ₹2,500 Cr public issue will include a fresh issue worth ₹800 Cr and an OFS component. Other Developments Of The Week MobiKwik cofounder and CFO Upasana Taku bought an additional 1.07 Lakh shares of the listed fintech company for ₹2.1 Cr, increasing her stake to 10.24% from 10.11% earlier. Ola Electric’s board approved a rights issue of up to ₹1,000 Cr. It will now decide on particulars like the price of the rights issue, rights entitlement ratio, record date and timing of the issue soon. SBI Mutual Fund purchased 1.18 Cr Swiggy shares, taking its total shareholding in the foodtech giant to around 5.1%. The open-market transaction was pegged at over ₹300.6 Cr. Jio Financial Services and Allianz infused ₹640 Cr into their general insurance joint venture (JV), Jio Allianz General Insurance, through a rights issue.
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