**The key metric is `Amount in USD`.** It is the only numeric measure in the dataset, and it is the deal size that the funding questions in this dataset depend on. It is stored as text with Indian-style comma grouping (e.g. `3,90,00,00,000`), so I parsed it to a number before ranking. Deals with no amount were excluded. **Highest records** | Rank | Startup | Date | Round | Amount (USD) | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | Rapido Bike Taxi (Transportation, Bengaluru) | 27/08/2019 | Series B | 3.9 billion | | 2 | Flipkart (eCommerce, Bangalore) | 11/08/2017 | Private Equity | 2.5 billion | | 3 (tie) | Paytm (eCommerce, Bangalore) | 18/05/2017 | Private Equity | 1.4 billion | | 3 (tie) | Flipkart (eCommerce, Bangalore) | 21/03/2017 | Private Equity | 1.4 billion | The next largest are Paytm at 1.0 billion (Nov 2019), Flipkart.com at 700 million and Paytm at 680 million (both 2015). **Lowest records** The minimum is **16,000 USD**, shared by at least five Seed Funding deals, all dated 19/01/2015: Hostel Dunia, Play your sport, Yo Grad, Enabli and CBS. The next-lowest deals (Dealwithus, Leaf and Faaya, 02/02/2015) are only slightly higher at 16,600. **Caveats** - The range runs from 16 thousand to 3.9 billion, a gap of about five orders of magnitude. Large private-equity rounds dominate any total or average, so medians are a better guide to a typical deal. - The Rapido figure looks like a possible data-entry or unit error. It is far above every other Series B in the results, so check it before relying on it. - Some amounts are missing (stored as "nan"). Drums Food (21/07/2016) appeared as a "highest" row in the first three queries, but its amount is missing. It only surfaced because missing values sorted above real numbers, so it is not a real maximum. - The lowest values are all from early 2015 and have no vertical or city, which suggests the earliest records are less complete. The queries behind these results are the ranked highest/lowest pulls on `Amount in USD` from `raw.startup_funding`, with the amount parsed to a number.