From The Sleep Company To Jeh Aerospace — Indian Startups Raised $197 Mn This Week

After a tepid month of funding, the Indian startup ecosystem has started showing signs of fresh life in August, backed by a host of early and mid-sized transactions. Investment activity between August 4 and 9 skyrocketed over 90% as 25 startups collectively raised $197.4 Mn. Last week, at least 14 startups garnered $103.7 Mn in total funding.

Funding Galore: Indian Startup Funding Of The Week [ Aug 4 – Aug 9 ]

Date	Name	Sector	Subsector	Business Model	Funding Round Size	Funding Round Type	Investors	Lead Investor
6 Aug 2025	The Sleep Company	Ecommerce	D2C	B2C	$54.6 Mn	Series D	ChrysCapital, 360 ONE Asset	–
7 Aug 2025	RENEE Cosmetics	Ecommerce	D2C	B2C	$30 Mn**	Series C	Playbook Partners, Midas Capital	Playbook Partners
5 Aug 2025	Fibe	Fintech	Lending Tech	B2B	$25 Mn	Debt	Franklin Templeton Alternative Investments Fund	Franklin Templeton Alternative Investments Fund
6 Aug 2025	SuperGaming	Media & Entertainment	Gaming	B2C	$15 Mn	Series A	Skycatcher, Steadview Capital, a16z Speedrun, Bandai Namco 021 Fund, Neowiz and Web3 Investors, Polygon Ventures, Sandeep Nailwal, 4th Revolution Capital, 32-Bit Ventures, Ryze Labs, Ed3n Ventures, Visceral Capital, AET Japan, BACE Capital	Skycatcher, Steadview Capital
5 Aug 2025	Jeh Aerospace	Advanced Hardware & Technology	Aerial Vehicles	B2B	$11 Mn	Series A	Elevation Capital, General Catalyst	Elevation Capital
6 Aug 2025	Zype	Fintech	Lending Tech	B2C	$10.3 Mn	–	Unleash Capital Partners, Xponentia Capital Partners, Tejinder Singh Hara	Unleash Capital Partners
6 Aug 2025	DPDPZero	Fintech	Fintech SaaS	B2B	$7 Mn	Series A	GMO Venture Partners, India Quotient, Sinarmas Group, SMBC Asia Rising Fund, Blume Venture	GMO Venture Partners
5 Aug 2025	TurboHire	Artificial intelligence (AI)	Application Layer	B2B	$6 Mn	Series A	IvyCap Ventures	IvyCap Ventures
4 Aug 2025	Mitigata	Fintech	Insurtech	B2B	$5.9 Mn	Series A	Nexus Venture Partners, Titan Capital, WEH Ventures	Nexus Venture Partners
6 Aug 2025	TPlusA India	Ecommerce	D2C	B2C	$5.8 Mn	Seed	Livspace, Ramkant Sharma, Nishant Sharma	Livspace
6 Aug 2025	Cautio	Advanced Hardware & Technology	Internet Of Things (IoT) & Hardware	B2B	$3 Mn	Seed	100Unicorns, Venture Catalysts, Antler India, Infinyte Club, PIEDS-BITS Pilani, Gajendra Jangid, Vikram Chopra, Amal Parikh, 8i Ventures, AU Small Finance Bank, Vibha Chetan, Venture Catalysts, Raveen Sastry, Vivekananda Hallekere, Nishchay AG	–
7 Aug 2025	OUTZIDR	Ecommerce	D2C	B2C	$3 Mn	Pre-Series A	RTP Global, Stellaris Venture Partners	RTP Global
6 Aug 2025	HYLENR	Clean Tech	Climate Tech	B2B	$3 Mn	Pre-Series A	Valour Capital, Chhattisgarh Investments	Valour Capital, Chhattisgarh Investments
7 Aug 2025	Zepto	Consumer Services	Quick Commerce	B2C	$2.9 Mn	–	MapmyIndia	MapmyIndia
6 Aug 2025	CodeKarma	Artificial intelligence (AI)	Application Layer	B2B	$2.5 Mn	Pre-Seed	Prosus, Accel, Xeed Ventures, SenseAI Ventures, Stargazer Ventures	Prosus, Accel, Xeed Ventures
7 Aug 2025	Xovian Aerospace	Advanced Hardware & Technology	Space Tech	B2B	$2.5 Mn	Pre-Seed	Piper Serica, Turbostart, Inflection Point Ventures, Eaglewings Ventures	Piper Serica, Turbostart
7 Aug 2025	Nuuk	Ecommerce	D2C	B2C	$2 Mn*	Series A	Vertex Ventures SEA, Good Capital	–
6 Aug 2025	DesignX	Enterprise Tech	Horizontal SaaS	B2B	$2 Mn	–	Rockstud Capital, We Founder Circle, Piper Serica	–
5 Aug 2025	EON Space Labs	Advanced Hardware & Technology	Spacetech	B2B	$1.2 Mn	Pre-Series A	MGF Kavachh, HHV Advanced Technologies	MGF Kavachh
7 Aug 2025	MangoPoint	Ecommerce	D2C	B2C	$1 Mn	Pre-Series A	Inflection Point Ventures, The Chennai Angels, Native Angel Network, Keiretsu Forum India, Fondation Botnar, IIM-CAN, Metis Family Office, JITO Incubation and Innovation Foundation	Inflection Point Ventures
5 Aug 2025	Fraganote	Ecommerce	D2C	B2C	$1 Mn	Pre-Series A	Rukam Capital	Rukam Capital
5 Aug 2025	Shortgun Games	Media & Entertainment	Gaming	B2C	$1 Mn	Seed	–	–
6 Aug 2025	Gladful	Ecommerce	D2C	B2C	$913K	–	Eternal Capital, Antler India, Venture Catalysts, RWA Advisors, Arav Ventures, Aman Tekriwal, Sairam Krishnamurthy	Eternal Capital
5 Aug 2025	Terafac	Advanced Hardware & Technology	Robotics	B2B	$800K	Pre-Seed	Inuka Capital, DeVC, Bharat Founders Fund, Innovation Mission Punjab	Inuka Capital
5 Aug 2025	Prozo	Logistics	Shipping & Delivery	B2B	–	–	Ranbir Kapoor	Ranbir Kapoor
Source: Inc42 *Part of a larger round ** Includes secondary transactions Note: Only disclosed funding rounds have been included

Key Startup Funding Highlights Of The Week

• Ecommerce eclipsed every other startup sector in terms of weekly funding this week, gobbling up about 50% of the cumulative fresh capital infusion in the world’s third-largest startup ecosystem. Eight ecommerce startups bagged $98.3 Mn this week.
• The D2C sub-sector accounted for the entire ecommerce funding allocation this week, with mattress brand The Sleep Company mopping up the biggest $54.6 Mn Series D cheque.
• The advanced hardware and technology sector recorded the second-highest number of deals, with startups collectively pulling in $18.5 Mn.
• The week also saw a clutch of VC firms, including Antler India, Venture Catalysts, Piper Serica and Inflection Point Ventures, among others, picking up investment activity with each backing two startups.
• This week, seed funding raked in $9.8 Mn across six deals, marking a 36% uptick from the preceding week.

Other Developments Of The Week

• Joining the growing list of new-age tech startups moving towards the bourses, jewellery brand BlueStone filed its IPO papers this week. The company has trimmed its fresh issue size from INR 1,000 Cr to INR 820 Cr. Besides, its existing investors reduced the size of the OFS component to 1.4 Cr shares from 2.4 Cr shares earlier.
• Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) officially wrote off its entire $200 Mn investment in defunct hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo.
• Peak XV Partners CPO Anuj Sahai stepped down after two years at the VC firm. This comes in continuation of a string of senior exits from India’s largest venture capital fund.
• Adding to Zepto’s bid to add more domestic shareholders to its captable, the quick commerce major added geotech major MapmyIndia to its captable this week.

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