A Forbes article quotes Venture Intelligence data on PE/VC investments in India:
The funding signals how risk capital investors are still betting big on the burgeoning startup ecosystem. In 2016, as many as 620 transactions were sealed in the PE/VC space, according to data available with research firm Venture Intelligence. Of this, about 65 percent comprised startup investments. In 2015, the year that created history for the highest amount of PE and VC investments both by value and volume, of the total of 775 investments sealed in the January-December period that year, as many as 512 were startup deals.