Tag: funding winter
Indian startups: At $5 billion, startup’s exit street buzzier in 2024
Risk investors scored exits worth more than $5 billion from Indian startups in 2024 via secondary transactions, offers for sale in IPOs and public market…
Funding winter to IPO spring: The resurgence of Indian startups as VCs eye IPOs and a path to profitability—expert analysis at ET Soonicorns Summit 2024
With a “funding winter” in hindsight the Indian startup ecosystem has been steadily making progress leaving the pessimism of a “reset” behind, fuelled by a…
Koo shuts down: Inside the rise and fall of Indian Twitter rival Koo
Homegrown social media platform Koo, which had pitched itself as a rival to X (previously Twitter) has shut shop as talks for an acquisition by…
Startup Mahakumbh: Startup Mahakumbh to tell the world that spring is coming
‘Startup Mahakumbh’ can bolster investor confidence and help shorten the funding winter that new enterprises have been facing, said a member of the committee that’s…
Appraisal: Funding winter or not, startups loosen purse strings to reward top talent
India’s startup companies are rewarding and ringfencing critical talent more than ever, amid continuing job cuts and a shift in focus to profitability from business…
GenAI startups: Indian GenAI firms raised $700 million in 3 years, says Nasscom
Amid what is being called the ‘global funding winter’, if investors are bullish on one area, it’s generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). Indian GenAI startups have…
startup valuations: Catamaran president Deepak Padaki sees startup valuations falling further
Startups must brace for further down rounds in 2024 as valuations could fall by nearly a third compared with 20-25% now amid a lingering funding…
ET Startup Awards 2023: Passing storm will make our startups stronger, better, says Satyan Gajwani
The last year has brought its share of challenges, yet at the same time, it has brought out the best of the startup ecosystem, said…
startup awards: ET Startup Awards 2023 | Indian startups go back to the basics in a changed world
After having felt reverberations of global turbulence in macroeconomics and a funding winter, Indian startups have undergone a great reset and are back to chasing…
funding winter: ET Startup Awards | Funding winter is only in mind, cash exists for good ventures: Piyush Goyal
The so-called funding winter for early-stage firms is more in the mind than in reality, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said at the ninth…