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Tiger Global and SoftBank trim investments in India by over a third in 2022

Start-ups feeling the heat, but funds like PremjiInvest increasing exposure

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SoftBank’s investments in India dropped from $1.9 billion in H2 2021 by more than a fifth to only $0.33 billion in H1 2022. (Photo: Reuters)

Surajeet Das Gupta New Delhi
US hedge fund Tiger Global and Japanese investment giant SoftBank have trimmed their investments in Indian start-ups by over a third — from $3.8 billion in the second half of 2021 to a mere $1.08 billion in H1 2022, according to data from Venture Intelligence.

While SoftBank’s investments in India dropped from $1.9 billion in H2 2021 by more than a fifth to only $0.33 billion in H1 2022, that of Tiger Global fell from $1.92 to $0.74 billion in the same period.

Private equity (PE) fund trackers point out that this year most of the deals that Tiger Global has invested