Mumbai, Nov. 18 -- A decade-high number of filings for initial public offers, or IPOs, in 2025 has brought India within sighting distance of the highest ever amount of money raised in such share sales in a single year, data analysed by Mint showed.

This follows sustained domestic institutional flows encouraging well-positioned issuers across sizes and sectors to tap public markets for growth capital and investor exits.

About 242 companies have filed draft red herring prospectuses with markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India in calendar year 2025 so far aiming to raise nearly Rs.3.47 trillion, according to new issue tracker Prime Database. This is significantly higher than the 157 filings seeking Rs.2.79 trillion in cale...