The uptick in investments was driven by a more than 2x increase in late stage deals , with $910 million invested across 16 such deals, as against $420 million across 18 deals in February 2025
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Private Equity-Venture Capital (PE-VC) investments saw a 27 per cent year-on-year rise in terms of value in February 2026.
The value of PE-VC investments in February 2026 stood at $2.6 billion across 108 deals as against $1.9 billion investments across 94 deals in February of 2025, as per data from Venture Intelligence.
On a sequential basis, the value of investments were up from $1.7 billion in January 2026 across 101 deals.
The uptick in investments was driven by a more than 2x increase in late stage deals (investments into companies more than 10 years old), with $910 million invested across 16 such deals, as against $420 million across 18 deals in February 2025.
Investments in early-stage companies stood at $354 million in investments across 61 deals while growth stage investments went down to $244 million across 25 deals.
In terms of the deal size, Mega deals (over $100 million) saw a sharp rise with $1.7 billion across seven such deals as against $1 billion in the same month last year.
Arun Natarajan, Founder, Venture Intelligence, said that both foreign and homegrown PE investors confidentially pulled the trigger on large Control / Buyout transactions in February. “Early Stage funding continues to be vibrant with experienced Silicon Valley-headquartered VC investors such as Lightspeed Ventures, Accel India and General Catalyst Partners, as well as home grown firms such as Fireside Ventures Chiratae Ventures, Blume Ventures, 3one4 Capital and Info Edge, making active investments,” he said.
The average early stage deal size doubled to $6 million as against $3 million in February 2026, while late stage increased to $57 million ($23 million). For the growth stage it went down to $10 million($14 million).
The largest deal in the month was the $600 million raised by AI acceleration cloud platform Neysa from Blackstone, TVS Capital, 360 ONE Assets, Nexus Ventures and Teachers’ Venture Growth, among others. Other major deals included Non Banking Finance Companies (NBFC) Aditya Birla Housing and Nido Home Finance raising $304 million and $230 million respectively.
Published on March 2, 2026
