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Daybreak — Why VCs love founders with baggage more than founders with new ideas
Scout ratingSCOUT· 38%9m·2025-08-17·News Politics

Why VCs love founders with baggage more than founders with new ideas

Daybreak · 556

India’s startup boom has lost its spark. Venture capital funding in the first half of 2025 dropped to just $3.6 billion—the lowest since 2016. Fresh ideas are scarce, and investors are stuck with fewer bets to make. So who’s still getting the money? Familiar founders. Even those with messy track records. Pharmeasy’s…

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