How we count funding rounds

Where the data comes from

Every round in our figures comes from an article we published on newzchain.com. After an article goes live, we pull out the company, the amount, the stage and the investors named in it.

That means the figures cover the rounds we report, not every round in the market. We cover startups in India, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf.

Some funding announcements reach us through our PR service. They are held to the same checks as every other story and counted like any other round.

Our funding database

Every round, company, founder and investor in our database links back to the Newzchain article it came from, with a confidence score for how clearly the article stated it.

Facts are read from our articles automatically, then pass the rule-based checks on this page before they appear on the site. When something is corrected, the old fact is replaced by a new one linked to it. Nothing is overwritten.

What never goes into these figures

Data shared with us privately is kept separate and never used here. That covers accelerator portfolio data, client research and market-entry work, and order details. Only what we have published as journalism is counted.

What counts as a round

A round is counted only when the article is a funding story about that company: the headline must name the company and describe a raise or an investment. A results story or a profile that mentions an old round does not count.

We only use details we are highly confident were read correctly from the article. Anything below that bar is left out rather than guessed.

An amount is shown only when the same figure appears in the headline, so a number from elsewhere in the story is never attached to the wrong round.

If we publish more than one story on the same round, it is counted once: the same company with the same amount within 30 days is one round.

What we leave out

Rounds that are only reported as in talks, planned or expected are not counted in totals or rankings. They appear on our deal cards as “Reported, not closed”.

A round with an undisclosed amount counts towards the number of rounds but adds nothing to the dollar total.

Time windows

Dates are the day we published the story, which is usually within a day of the announcement. The headline total and region split cover the last 30 days.

The weekly bars are 12 blocks of 7 days counted back from today, so the newest bar is always a full last 7 days. “Largest rounds this week” ranks the last 7 days when there are at least four disclosed rounds, otherwise the most recent ones.

Regions and sectors

Each story is placed in one region from its tags. India-Gulf stories count as Corridor, and Saudi stories count as Gulf. Our publishing checks keep a region tag only when the article names a place in that region.

The sector is the first sector tag on the story, such as Fintech or Healthtech.

Largest rounds and bar lengths

Rounds are ranked by their dollar value, one row per company. Bar length scales with the square root of the amount, so a $5M round stays visible next to a $100M one. Read the figure, not the bar, for exact size.

Company pages

Investors listed on a company page are those named in our coverage. They are not always investors in that particular round.

Founders and leaders are listed only for founder, CEO and managing director roles we are highly confident about. Investors are never listed as leaders.

Some Indian company pages also show registry details from the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, through data.gov.in. These appear only when we have confirmed the registered company is the brand in our story.

How often it updates

The figures refresh within six hours of a story going live. When we correct an article, its figures update with it.

Currency rates we use

Amounts are shown as the source wrote them. For totals and rankings we convert to US dollars at fixed rates, so a total does not move when exchange rates do.

Changes to this page

• November 2026 · First published.