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NASSCOM PGA Labs Tech Start-ups: Quarterly Investment Factbook (Q4 CY21

Tech Start-ups: Quarterly Investment Factbook” is NASSCOM’s A quarterly funding update on Tech start-ups highlighting key trends and facts about the Indian tech start-up ecosystem during the quarter. It covers funding details by volume, value, stage, and other metrics. Includes a separate section on five key verticals- EdTech, HealthTech, RetailTech, EnterpriseTech and FinTech that highlights key trends and themes reflecting the different strategies adopted by ecosystem players. 

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Key Findings

Funding continued to be strong and steady

  • $ 7.2B funding received in this quarter up by ~18% Q-o-Q 
  • FinTech and Retail Tech were the top sector in Q4 CY21 attracting ~46% of total funding 
  • Indian start-ups remain attractive, raised >USD 6B in two consecutive quarters of CY2021   
Higher ticket size deals dominate Q4

  • 69% of deals by volume were <US$ 25M; Enterprise Tech remains most active (18% deals) 
  • 23 deals were of ticket size >US$ 100M compared to 14 in Q3 CY21 
  • ~50% deals were in 3 specific verticals - Enterprise Tech, FinTech and Retail Tech 
Record unicorn additions in this quarter

  • 14 new unicorns added in the Indian tech start-up ecosystem in Q4 CY21 
  • 6 out of 14 Unicorns added in Q4 CY21 are from Retail Tech and Fintech sector 
  • NoBroker is India's first proptech (property tech) startup that achieved a unicorn status 
Other Key Trends

  • Payments and BFSI investors raised ~47% of total Fintech funding 
  • DeepTech start-ups raised ~US$ 190M across 27 deals in total in Q4 CY21 
  • B2C start-ups raised over US$ 5.6B across 112 deals 

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