A Mint article quotes Venture Intelligence data on Venture Capital investments in India:
India’s early-stage investors struck 405 deals worth $1.4 billion in 2016, a year that marked the return of reason to the venture capital market. The overall volume and value of investments are down from the previous year by 21% and 28%, respectively, according to data compiled by Chennai-based researcher Venture Intelligence.
There’s a little bit of concern around the funding crunch at the Series A stage, the first serious institutional capital round that goes into a start-up. The number of Series A deals last year declined 45% from 2015. On the other hand, the number of seed-stage deals, which precede Series A, have more or less stayed at the 2015 levels.
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