**The key metric is `Amount in USD`**, the size of each funding deal. It is the only real measure in the dataset (the card lists it as the sole measure). It is stored as text with Indian-style digit grouping (e.g. `3,90,00,00,000`) and was converted to a number for the results below. **Highest records** (step-7 / step-6 results) - The largest deal is **Rapido Bike Taxi**, Series B, 27/08/2019, Bengaluru, at **3,900,000,000**. - Next is **Flipkart**, Private Equity, 11/08/2017, at **2,500,000,000**. - Two deals tie at **1,400,000,000**: Paytm (18/05/2017) and Flipkart (21/03/2017). - Paytm's 25/11/2019 round (Noida) follows at 1,000,000,000. - The top 10 is dominated by Private Equity rounds in Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi. **Lowest records** - The smallest recorded amount is **16,000**, shared by five seed deals dated 19/01/2015: Hostel Dunia, Play your sport, Yo Grad, CBS and Enabli. - The next tier is **16,600**, for seed deals dated 02/02/2015 (Faaya, Leaf, Dealwithus, InstaBounce, CleverSharks and Chloroplast Foods). - These lowest rows have no city recorded. **Caveats** - **Missing amounts:** Drums Food (Sr No 1563) appeared at the top of an unfiltered sort, but its amount is missing (`nan`), so it is not a real maximum. I excluded it from the ranking. - **Suspect top value:** Rapido's 3.9 billion is roughly 1.5 times the next-largest deal. That is implausible for a Series B, so it may be a unit or entry error in the source. Treat it as an outlier to verify. - **Inconsistent labels:** Round type and city labels are inconsistent (`Seed\nFunding` vs `Seed Funding`, `Bangalore` vs `Bengaluru`). Group on them only after cleaning. The ranked tables above come from the `query_sql` results on `raw.startup_funding`.