MUMBAI: After a record-breaking $6 billion worth of investments in Q4 of calendar 2019, venture capital (VC) investment in India slumped to $2.2 billion in the first quarter of 2020, in part due to economic and political uncertainty, according to a report by KPMG.
Initially, India was not as affected by covid-19 in Q1 (January-March) CY20 as much as China. In February, the pandemic began creating turmoil in global markets and after the World Health Organisation declared it a pandemic in early March, governments across the world took unprecedented steps to curb the spread of the virus.
Concerns intensified later in the quarter, due, in part, to the fact India receives a significant investment from international VC firms and corporates.