**The most important numeric metric is `Amount in USD`, the reported size of each funding deal.** It is the only true measure in the dataset. Every other column is an ID, a date, a category or text. It is stored as text in Indian digit grouping (for example `3,90,00,00,000`), so it was converted to a number before ranking. **Highest records** (from the ranked results in steps 3–5) | Rank | Startup | Date | Round | Amount (USD) | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | Rapido Bike Taxi | 27/08/2019 | Series B | 3.9 billion | | 2 | Flipkart | 11/08/2017 | Private Equity | 2.5 billion | | 3 | Flipkart | 21/03/2017 | Private Equity | 1.4 billion | | 3 (tie) | Paytm | 18/05/2017 | Private Equity | 1.4 billion | | 5 | Paytm | 25/11/2019 | Funding Round | 1.0 billion | **Lowest records:** five seed deals dated 19/01/2015 are tied at the minimum of $16,000. They are Hostel Dunia, Play your sport, Yo Grad, Enabli and CBS. The next lowest is $16,600, for five seed deals on 02/02/2015 including Faaya, Leaf and Dealwithus. **Caveats** - **Missing amounts:** some rows have no amount (shown as `nan`), such as Drums Food (Sr No 1563). A naive sort puts these at the top, but they have no value and are excluded from the ranking above. - **Possible data error:** the Rapido figure of $3.9 billion is about 1.5 times the next largest deal and looks like an outlier, possibly an extra zero in the source. Check it before using it as a benchmark. - **Multi-year spread:** the large deals are mostly Private Equity rounds in Bangalore, and they span 2015–2019. The smallest deals are all early-2015 seed rounds, so deal size varies widely and the range partly reflects time. - **Minimum not checked for zeros:** I did not check whether any zero or placeholder amounts exist. The minimum is the smallest positive reported value.