Indian startups earned $9.5 billion of exits in 2021. Exits, partial or total, by existing investors of startups via initial public offerings (IPOs), mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and secondary share sales increased almost eight times this year till 10th December from $1.2 billion in 2020. This is the highest amount of exits Indian startups have given to investors in recent years. The exit number for 2019 was $2.9 billion in 82 deals, while the same in 2017 was $2.4 billion via 88 deals.

Founders and investors said that Indian startups have had to answer in the past decade about the sparse exits. But with IPOs and large-scale M&As being crashed, these concerns are getting addressed. LPs always wanted exit timelines from investors. And now, with IPOs, secondary and strategic sales, multiple avenues are opening up. These exits are getting addressed.