Investor outlook 2021: Challenges, growing trends, and expectations from the Indian startup ecosystem Investors YourStory spoke to believe that COVID-19 is just another opportunity to stand apart for the best founders out there. In fact, they can’t wait to meet and invest in entrepreneurs who won the pandemic. 0 claps Share on The year 2020 has proven to be a period of fundamental shift both for the Indian startup and investor ecosystems. For investors engaged in early to growth-stage investment activity, April and May were exceptionally challenging when they had to take a step back to calibrate their "investable" income during the pandemic.