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Delhi

Metro area · India · Pop. 28.5M · #27 city by EV

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1,601 Pool of Funded Startups
New Startups
876 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
186 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment
get funded 21%
1,301Startups
612 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M
425 Seed Startups$1–4M
Pre-Seed to Seed 28%
264 Series A Startups$4–15M
Seed to Series A 34%
228Breakouts
148 Series B Breakouts$15–40M
A to Series B 37%
80 Series C Breakouts$40–100M
B to Series C 44%
72Scaleups
43 Mega Scaleups$100–250M
reach Mega 2.7%
29 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+
reach Mega+ 1.8%
30Valuation Outcomes
27 Unicorns($1–10B valuation)
reach Unicorn 1.7%
3 Decacorns($10–100B valuation)
reach Decacorn 0.19%
Pre-Seed
612
Seed
425
Series A
264
Series B
148
Series C
80
Unicorn
27
Decacorn
3

* C→Unicorn and Unicorn→Decacorn rates are derived from current counts (no founding-cohort data); the four mid-funnel rates use Dealroom's cohort tracking.

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Delhi

A live treemap of the largest VC rounds. Each cell is one round into Delhi-headquartered companies, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Delhi - 2026

Every $40M+ VC round into Delhi-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
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VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Delhi

VC investment into Delhi-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.

Academia

Delhi's academic flywheel

Companies founded by university alumni or spun out of research, plus the institutions producing the most founders tied to Delhi.

University-linked startup formation
27
University spinouts
1,713
Total alumni-founded companies
1,031
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
458
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
224
Scaleups ($100M+)

Location comparison

How Delhi stacks up

Compare Delhi with peers from the same country (India) — switch between combined EV, EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for the full ranking.

Bengaluru
$295B
Mumbai
$244B
Delhi
$228B
Pune
$36.8B
Chennai
$31.3B
Hyderabad
$28B
Jaipur
$9.8B
Ahmedabad
$8.6B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

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What we don't show on this page (yet)

Sector breakdowns, founder origins, AI-talent leaderboards and live deal flow are gated to logged-in Dealroom users. Book a demo to access the full Delhi dataset — or see a sample on the Dealroom app.

Sector breakdown
Where Delhi's unicorns concentrate
Fintech
AI / Enterprise SW
Health Tech
Biotech
Cybersecurity
Consumer
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Capital autonomy
Delhi's domestic vs foreign capital mix
% domestic VC by stage
Cross-border lead investors
Sovereign-fund participation
Foreign-LP exposure
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Recent momentum
Delhi's VC investment trajectory by stage
2024 vs 2025 by stage
Round-size trends
Stage-conversion deltas
Quarterly velocity
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Founder origins
Where Delhi's startup founders come from
By country of origin
Per capita
Top universities
Top alumni-factory companies
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AI talent
Top employers of AI talent in Delhi
Core AI roles
Frontier AI roles
YoY hiring growth
Senior + lead engineers
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Deal flow
Live deal flow & funding rounds in Delhi
New rounds last 30 days
Stage breakdown
Active investors
Round-size trends
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