{"id":131379,"date":"2021-10-14T07:28:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T12:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/?p=131379"},"modified":"2022-03-26T00:20:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T05:20:16","slug":"weekly-funding-roundup-venture-investments-into-startups-cross-1b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/blog\/weekly-funding-roundup-venture-investments-into-startups-cross-1b\/","title":{"rendered":"[Weekly funding roundup] Venture investments into startups cross $1B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The first week of October saw a big funding boost, with unicorns like Ola Electric, Meesho, and Vedantu bringing in large capital.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The month of October has begun on a very positive note for the Indian startup ecosystem, with the total venture funding crossing $1 billion and another startup entered the unicorn club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first week of October saw totally 39 deals, with the total funding amounting to $1.2 billion. The big chunk of this funding amount came from three unicorns \u2013 Meesho, Ola Electric, and Vedantu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The overall funding momentum continues to remain upbeat and the country&#8217;s startup ecosystem is expected to end the year with a strong finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/yourstory.com\/2021\/10\/weekly-funding-roundup-venture-investments-startups-october\/amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full article<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In the News<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Covered on these news sites. Click image to read more.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yourstory.com\/2021\/10\/weekly-funding-roundup-venture-investments-startups-october\/amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"205\" height=\"48\" src=\"https:\/\/www.een.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Yourstory-lg.png\" alt=\"Yourstory-lg\" class=\"wp-image-130626\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first week of October saw a big funding boost, with unicorns like Ola Electric, Meesho, and Vedantu bringing in large capital. The month of October has begun on a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/blog\/weekly-funding-roundup-venture-investments-into-startups-cross-1b\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Weekly funding roundup] Venture investments into startups cross $1B<\/span> Les mer &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3155,"featured_media":130615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"4139,4147,4823,4827,4829,4831","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}