Bengaluru outpaces Mumbai, Gurugram in auto-tech funding race in 2026, bags 70% of sector investments
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- ✓Bengaluru bagged 70 percent of India’s auto-tech investments in 2026, securing $894 million out of $1.3 billion.
- ✓Data from Traxcn showed Mumbai and Gurugram followed in the funding race.
- ✓While late-stage companies got most of the money, the sector saw fewer funding rounds this year compared to the previous year.
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Bengaluru: Bengaluru accounts for $894 million, or 70 percent, of the $1.3 billion raised by auto-tech companies in the country in the Year To Date (YTD), with companies like ride-hailing platform Rapido attracting large venture capital (VC) funding. According to data intelligence firm Traxcn, Mumbai and Gurugram occupied the second and third spots at $107 million and $63 million respectively.
“India Auto Tech companies raised $1.3 bn across 97 rounds in 2026 year to date (2026 YTD), against $2.1B across 195 rounds in 2025,” said a report by Traxcn, released Monday.
Bengaluru’s top position was heavily influenced by several large funding rounds, led by Rapido’s $240 million Series F round in May, accounting for about 18 percent of the total funding, bringing its total to $798 million.
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