Women-led tech startups secure record 25% decline in funding at USD 1 billion
A recent report on Friday has said that the tech startups co-led by women secured only USD 1 billion in funding in 2024, a 25% year-on-year (Y-o-Y) decline.
A recent report on Friday has said that the tech startups co-led by women secured only USD 1 billion in funding in 2024, a 25% year-on-year (Y-o-Y) decline.
Indian startups raised a total of nearly Rs 13,800 crore ($1.65 billion) in February this year, a 19.5 per cent increase from nearly Rs 11,460 crore ($1.38 billion) in January, according to a new report.
Moreover, 13 early-stage startups secured funding worth $33 million during the week.
The Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) was launched on 8 April 2015 by the PM with the aim to facilitate easy collateral-free micro-credit of up to Rs 10 lakh to non-corporate, non-farm small and micro-entrepreneurs for income-generating activities.
The investigation agency conducted searches at premises of six suspects in the Doda district and one suspect in the Jammu district of the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir in the case pertaining to Jamaat-e-Islami J&K, which even after its declaration as Unlawful Association in 2019, continued to raise funds in various forms purportedly for charitable purposes.
Luckily, stock markets do aim to support ESG, with Hong Kong, Singapore and Jakarta all exploring the launch of wide-scale voluntary carbon markets. These platforms would match holders of nature based or technology climate assets with potential buyers of carbon credits through a credentialed, secure, trusted process that could be global on both ends (investors and carbon assets).
"Was so much money spent? Who paid for it? The NSO says it sells its software only to governments. If it is so, which government in India purchased the software? Rs 300 crore were spent for spying on 300 people in India. Does our country have the capacity to spend so much money on spying?" Raut asked.
"The tremendous response to our IPO gives us the confidence that the world is full of investors who appreciate the magnitude of investments we are making, and take a long-term view of our business," said Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal.
The US government was the largest of voluntary contributor, accounting for just under 15% of WHO funding in 2019.
UN chief Antonio Guterres also condemned Donald Trump's remarks and said it is 'not the time to reduce the resources' of WHO.
