Startups end FY21 on a high note as fund flows top in Q4
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Startup funding in Q4 FY21 stood at $3.65 billion, a tenth higher than the year-ago period when fundraising stood at $3.22 billion. The surge was led by unicorns Byju's, Dream11, Udaan and Zomato.
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The buoyancy in the last quarter of the fiscal contrasts sharply with the decline in annual risk capital inflow during a year hit hard by the pandemic. (Illustration: Rahul Awasthi/ETtech)
Bengaluru: A series of large financing rounds for some of India’s best-known startups has propelled the flow of risk capital into the sector to a high of $3.65 billion in the final quarter of 2020-21, marking an increase by over a tenth from the same period last year when funding had touched $3.22 billion, data sourced by ET shows.