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1 week agoCapital is flowing again, just not where the consensus says - Tearsheet
US fintech funding rose to $5.1B in Q1 2026, driven by early-stage growth, while late-stage funding fell and IPOs returned cautiously.
"The thought process is building AI products for billions of Indians, as well as supporting AI products built in India for global markets," Prayank Swaroop, a partner at Accel, told TechCrunch. India is an appealing market with the world's second-largest internet and smartphone base after China and its deep engineering talent. Still, it's also country that lacks frontier model development and hasn't produced many companies pushing the technical frontier of AI, where development remains concentrated in the U.S. and China.