**The key metric is `Amount`, the funding raised in each round (in USD).** It is the only measure across the five monthly tables (Jan–May 2022), and every row is one funding round. It is stored as text, so I cleaned it into a numeric `usd` value before ranking. **Highest records (shown in the results above)** 1. Accel, Financial services: $18.3B 2. Ola, Travel Arrangements, Series J: $5.0B 3. Mahindra Logistics, Logistics: $2.5B 4. Verse Innovation, Internet Publishing, Series J: $1.7B 5. ShareChat, Social networking, Series G: $1.4B All five come from the April 2022 table. **Lowest records (cleaned, valid dollar figures)** 1. FirstCry, Online shopping (Apr): $74,140 2. Propdial, Real Estate (Mar): $100,000 3. PensionBox, Financial Service (Mar): $160,000 4. Accelero Vehicles, Automotive, Seed (Feb): $200,000 5. Mango Point, Food & Beverages (Feb): $200,000 **Data-quality caveats** - **The top values are suspect.** Accel is a well-known investor rather than a startup. Its $18.3B is about 3.6 times the next-largest figure, and its stage is "undisclosed". It is likely a misaligned or erroneous row, and Ola's $5B may be as well. I could not verify either against another source. - **An earlier "lowest" ranking was wrong.** Values like `$34.100,000` and `$23` were parsed as 34.1 and 23.0 because of inconsistent separators. I discarded that result and used the cleaned ranking above. - **Many rows have no usable amount.** In the first query, "Undisclosed" appears 35 times and a blank 25 times. A few values lack the `$` sign, for example `2,000,000`. - **May 2022 is the least reliable month.** Only 20 of its 42 rows have a `$`-formatted amount, and the other 22 hold other content. The card also notes that some May rows are misaligned or blank, so May may be underrepresented in the rankings. Treat the lowest list as the smallest *disclosed* rounds. Treat the highest list as unconfirmed until the Accel and Ola rows are checked.