**The most important numeric metric is `Amount`, the funding raised in each round.** It is the only real measure across the five monthly tables (Jan–May 2022). It is stored as text, so it has to be cleaned before it can be ranked. The first result shows its raw values: "Undisclosed" appears 35 times and blank 25 times among the 50 most common values. It also shows inconsistent formats such as `2,000,000` with no `$`. **Highest records (parsed to USD)** - Accel (Apr 2022, "Financial services"): $18.3B - Ola (Series J): $5.0B - Mahindra Logistics: $2.5B - Verse Innovation (Series J): $1.7B - ShareChat (Series G): $1.4B **Lowest records (after excluding malformed values)** - FirstCry (Apr 2022): $74,140 - Propdial (Mar 2022): $100,000 - PensionBox (Mar 2022): $160,000 - Accelero Vehicles and Mango Point (Feb 2022): $200,000 each **Caveats** - **The top value is probably wrong.** "Accel" is a well-known venture investor, not a startup. The $18.3B figure is about 3.6 times the next largest round, and the card notes that some rows in this data are misaligned. I did not verify it, so treat it as a likely data-entry or column-alignment error rather than a real round. - **Some lowest-looking values are parsing errors.** A first attempt at the lowest records returned values like `$34.100,000`, `$23` and `$11.700,000`. These are European-style or truncated formats that parse to tiny numbers such as 23 or 34.1 USD. The second query excluded these, which is why it gives a more plausible minimum. - **Many rounds have no amount.** The "Undisclosed" and blank entries cannot be ranked, so the highest and lowest are based only on rows with a parseable amount. The queries behind these results are the rankings in steps 1 and 2. The distribution of raw `Amount` values is in step 0.