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Press Trust of India | New Delhi Last Updated at July 10, 2022 14:54 IST
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Geo-political instability appears to be taking a toll on the Indian startups with the total funding declining by 40 per cent to USD 6.8 billion in the April-June quarter, reveals a PwC India report.
The early-stage deals comprised more than 60 per cent of the total with an average ticket size of USD 5 million, as per the PwC India report titled, 'Startup Deals Tracker – Q2 CY22.'
"After three consecutive quarters of raising more than USD 10 billion, the total funding in the Indian startup ecosystem fell by 40 per cent during Q2 CY22 to reach USD 6.8 billion.
"The decline can be attributed to a global slowdown, decrease in tech stock valuations, inflation and geopolitical instability," it added.
Software as a Service (SaaS) and fintech companies had the highest share of funding in the second quarter of Calender Year (CY) 2022, totalling more than USD 3.1 billion, the report said.
It further said that early-stage deals comprised more than 60 per cent of the total deal volumes with an average ticket size of USD 5 million.
Funding in early-stage deals during Q2 CY22 continued to be stable at around USD 800 million and could remain stable or even grow in the next few quarters — given that entrepreneurial activity continues to flourish with increased digitisation as well as the quantum of venture capital funds waiting to be deployed in the Indian market, it added.
"We expect the overall funding landscape to take 1218 months to stabilise, during which it would be beneficial for startups to increase their 'funding runway'. No matter which stage a startup is in, they would do well to keep a close tab on core business and ensure unit economics is strictly as per plan," said Amit Nawka, Partner – Deals and India Startups Leader, PwC India.
Valuations are likely to remain under pressure across all funding stages, primarily trickling down from the significant funding slowdown in late-stage or Initial Public Offering (IPO) deals, he added.
The report further said Bengaluru, National Capital Region (NCR) and Mumbai continue to be the key startup cities in India, together contributing around 95 per cent of the total funding activity in April-June quarter of 2022, followed by Chennai and Pune.
In Bengaluru, more than USD 100 million was raised by seven companies each in the second quarter of 2022 — Dailyhunt, Rapido, Leadsquared, Lenskart, CRED, Ather Energy and Observe.ai — majorly across the SaaS, and logi and autotech space.
In NCR seven companies — Delhivery, Stashfin, Rario, Grey Orange Robotics, Absolute Foods, Fashinza and PhysicsWallah — raised more than USD 100 million each.
In Mumbai, the report said, more than USD 100 million was raised by four companies each. These include upGrad, Zepto, CoinDCX and Turtlemint.
Only four startups in India attained unicorn status in the second quarter of calendar year 2022, mirroring a global trend in decline in the number of new unicorns this last quarter. Globally, the total unicorn count has crossed 1,200 with maximum unicorns in Q2 CY22 operational in the SaaS sector, followed by fintech.
The number of decacorns (startups valued at USD 10 billion) globally has reached 57, with four new entrants in April-June quarter of 2022.
(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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