Indian startup funding expands week-on-week driven by fintech and applied AI clusters

₹371 crore funding was secured last week across thirty deals, representing nineteen percent week-on-week growth in deal value. The pickup was strongest across fintech and applied AI solution verticals that continue receiving premium capital allocation even while late-stage checks remain selective. Analysts said India’s early-stage ecosystem remains structurally resilient because founder-led unit economics structuring is improving more rapidly than in the 2019-2023 cycles. For allocators this weekly signal shows bottom formation behaviour in early innovation stacks, confirming investors are not retreating broadly but recalibrating risk toward high signal domains.