Meet The Top 10 Indian Startup Investors Of H1 2026

Indian startup funding was muted in the first half of 2026, declining 9% YoY to $5.2 Bn raised between January and June. There was a slight 7% uptick in the total number of deals to 501, as per Inc42’s Indian Tech Startup Funding Report, H1 2026 report. Even as overall funding trends remained rather muted, investor strategies continued to evolve, with many moving focus to ventures building frontier technologies like AI, robotics and deeptech.