Seed Investment And How It Works.
Start-up businesses are primarily equipped with idea stage. Biggest hurdle comes through after this only. How to tackle financial needs? Most of the entrepreneurs are not wealthy enough to bootstrap their start-up idea. Even if they are, they need investment at some point in their work. There comes the role of Seed Funding . Seed funding really took off in India in 2009, when Flipkart raised its first round of funding. The poster child of Indian startups was poised to fill the massive e-commerce gap in the Indian market. All it needed was the financial backing and trust to forever change the manner in which a billion people shop for goods. This financial fillip came in the form of a $1M seed funding round by Accel Partners. The success of Flipkart resulted in an explosion of startups in India, with starry-eyed founders seeking the coveted ‘unicorn’ status. India emerged as a market with plenty of white spaces and investors were quick to seize this opportunity to hunt fo...