{"id":411813,"date":"2021-04-24T09:26:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T03:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411813"},"modified":"2021-04-24T10:24:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T04:54:30","slug":"global-venture-capital-funding-jumps-to-1-3-billion-in-january-march-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/global-venture-capital-funding-jumps-to-1-3-billion-in-january-march-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Global venture capital funding jumps to $1.3 billion in January-March: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global venture capital funding in energy storage, smart grid and energy efficiency rose to $1.3 billion during January-March 2021, registering a whopping 410% year-on-year growth, a report released on Friday said. According to the report by Mercom Capital Group, the said segments had saw a combined funding of $252 million in same period of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The venture capital (VC) funding (including private equity and corporate venture capital) raised by battery storage companies in Q1 or January-March quarter of 2021 came to $994 million in 13 deals compared to $164 million in six deals in Q1 2020, it said. <\/p>\n<p>The report said 33 VC investors participated in battery storage funding during the said quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global venture capital funding in energy storage, smart grid and energy efficiency rose to $1.3 billion during January-March 2021, registering a whopping 410% year-on-year growth, a report released on Friday said. According to the report by Mercom Capital Group, the said segments had saw a combined funding of $252 million in same period of 2020. The venture capital (VC) funding (including private equity and corporate venture capital) raised by battery storage companies in Q1 or January-March quarter of 2021 came to $994 million in 13 deals compared to $164 million in six deals in Q1 2020, it said. The report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}