To fill funding gaps, VCs boost efforts to find India’s standout early-stage startups

Blume Ventures’ Karthik Reddy: ‘There’s an artificial skew toward unicorns’ Manish Singh 15 hours After demonstrating scale, growth and financial improvement, one founder of a two-year-old agritech startup based in India told me that he’s now confronting a new challenge: Unlike his peers in edtech, fintech or e-commerce, there are very few investors he could approach for raising funds, he told TechCrunch, requesting anonymity. He suggested that a startup of a similar scale solving a similar problem would have little issue raising more than $50 million. But for his startup,…

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