Funding in the Indian agritech space has remained volatile over the last three years, and this trend is expected to continue in the current year, too. According to Inc42’s ‘Annual Indian Startup Trends Report, 2025’, agritech startups cumulatively raised $202 Mn in funding across 36 deals last year, down almost 25% from $269 Mn raised in 2024. The funding raised was also a far cry from the highs of 2021 and 2022, when the sector bagged $728 Mn across 49 deals and $840 Mn across 62 deals, respectively. Imperative to mention that it has been a downhill drive for the sector since then. For context, the Indian agritech startups raised $220 Mn in 2023, a sharp 74% decline from a year ago, when pandemic-fuelled funding was the norm. Deal count, too, plummeted to 29 that year, the lowest between 2021 and 2025. Agritech is still in its nascent stages in India, with the first prominent rise recorded in 2017, but the difficulty in raising funds is causing a dent in its growth. A case in point is BharatAgri, which shut its operations in November last year due to a paucity of funds and funding opportunities. Industry experts believe that investors… Read MoreInc42 Media
