India’s tech startups clinch $2.5 billion funding in Q1 2025, fare better sequentially: Report

India’s tech startups raised $2.5 billion in the first quarter of 2025, marking a 13.64% increase over the previous quarter and an 8.7% rise from the year-ago period, a feat that secured its spot as the third most-funded country globally after the US and UK, according to a report by market intelligence platform Tracxn. The report highlighted that auto tech, enterprise applications and retail were the top-performing sectors in Q1 2025.

Other notable takeaways from the report were the increase in funding for late-stage startups both sequentially and…