Venture capital investments have picked up pace in India. As per KPMG, the start-up ecosystem saw over $2.5 billion investment in the third quarter of 2018, which was almost double from over $1 billion invested in the second quarter. Despite the increase, this is half of the $5 billion invested in the third quarter of 2017. Start-up comes with disruptive innovations, which develops confidence to take risks and explore by advocating and later on rewarding opportunity.
The report says that India saw a quarter on quarter increase in VC investment buoyed by $1 billion raised by hotel booking company Oyo Rooms to finance its expansion into China. Oyo became India's second most valuable technology start-up after Paytm and leapt into unicorn status with a $5 billion valuation. India also saw several $100 million plus megadeals this quarter, including $225 million by Udaan, $120 million by Curefit and $100 million by BookMyShow," the report said.
It has also seen that online marketplaces continue to gain a lot of traction in India during the quarter, with the second-hand car company Cars24 raising $50 million. India is witnessing a rapid rise in the B2B tech startup landscape, focused on verticals like healthtech, fintech, and ecommerce/aggregators.
According to a report, the investment in startups across segments such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Fintech, Logistics and Software as a Service (SaaS) touched $6.1 billion, with investment in 575 firms since 2016. Till now fintech topped the chart in terms of funding with $4.4 billion, followed by logistics at $838 million. There are certain interesting start-ups present in Delhi/NCR, Mumbai, Bangaluru and Chennai, of which we present you the leading 5 start-ups from each of these cities –
 COMPANY : Altigreen Propulsion LabsPROMOTER: Amitabh Saran (Founder & CEO), Shalendra Gupta (Co-Founder & CFO), Lasse Moklegaard (CTO and Co-Founder) & John Bangura( Co-founder & VP Engineering) SOLUTION OFFERINGS: Electric Motors & Generators, Battery Management Systems, Power Electronics, Advanced Telematics, Engineering Design & Software Algorithms |
 COMPANY : InstaSafe Technologies PROMOTER: Sandip Kumar Panda, CEO SOLUTION OFFERINGS: Identity based granular access control solution based on the principles of Software Defined Perimeter & InstaSafe Cloud Access |
 COMPANY : ShieldSquare PROMOTER: Pavan Kumar Thatha, CEO & Co-Founder SOLUTION OFFERINGS: Bot Mitigation for Web, Bot Mitigation for API, Bot Mitigation for Mobile, Bot Intelligence Feed |
 COMPANY : Squadcast PROMOTER: Amiya Adwitiya, Co-founder & CEO SOLUTION OFFERINGS: Escalation Policies, On-Call Schedules, Squad Management, Mobile Incident Management, API |
 COMPANY : Quantta PROMOTER: Ritesh Bawri ( Founder), Malvika Bawri ( Co-Founder) and Vinay Bawri( Co-Founder) SOLUTION OFFERINGS: Quantta Connect, Quantta Convert, Quantta Communicate, Quantta Custom |
