US firms most active investors in Indian start-ups

Tiger Global and Japan-based Softbank are among the largest investors in India's start-up ecosystem

US-based investors have been the most active foreign participants in India’s start-up ecosystem over the past five years, racking up over 800 equity deals during the period.

This also made them the second most active grouping since 2012, after their counterparts based in India or Mauritius, according to a CB Insights report. 

Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, and the UK occupied the other four spots in the list of top five foreign investors in India’s technology ecosystem, racking up five, three, two and one per cent of deals, respectively.

“Excluding India and Mauritius, deal participation is heavily tilted toward investors from the United States,