India’s unicorn companies are raising significantly more funding than early-stage startups. It’s almost as if India’s unicorn companies have a funding economy of their own. Tech startups in the country raised nearly $10 billion in funding in 2017, according to a report by CB Insights. 
However, just $206 million of that went to seed-and angel-stage deals, while over $6 billion in funding went to the country’s then-unicorns. The difference between the country’s unicorns and the rest of its tech startups is only growing more obvious. When funding hit an $8.7 billion peak in 2015, 47% of it went to tech unicorns. Similarly, every drop in funding has been driven by less attention to unicorns. As India’s tech startups saw funding fall over $5 billion in 2016, unicorns also saw their funding fall to $626 million.