Great time to be deploying capital, will be busy in 2024: Fundamentum GM

Focus on technological edge and prudent deployment

As startup funding has recently begun to witness a resurgence in the last quarter of the calendar year 2023, Ashish Kumar, co-founder and general partner at Fundamentum Partnership – a growth-stage investment firm, is confident that investments will increase going into the new year. In an interview with Aryaman Gupta, he talks about investment trends in 2023 and the coming year, dry powder, and misgovernance among startups, and more. Edited excerpts:

In your opinion, how has the year 2023 panned out in terms of investments? Have there been any silver linings?

The year 2023 has been a slower year in