SoftBank, an investor in Blinkit, got Zomato shares as a part of the Indian food delivery firm's acquisition of quick grocery-delivery startup last year.
Zomato, which acquired the quick grocery-delivery startup Blinkit for $538.05 million last year, had issued a 3.55% stake to investor Softbank as part of the deal.
Varma resigned on 14 March due to 'personal commitments and other pre-occupations,' Paytm said. Varma also quit from the board of PB Fintech the same day.
The round values Cars24 at $1.84 billion, almost doubling from the end of last year. It’s starting conversations about an IPO and aims to go public in 18 to 24 months.
Oyo carries a valuation of $9.6 billion after Microsoft's investment, third in the country behind Byju’s and Paytm. The startup is due to file IPO documents in the coming weeks.
Mindtickle, based in Pune and San Francisco, hit a valuation of $1.2 billion. It provides what it calls sales readiness technology that companies can customise with their own content and data.
Valued at $2.5 billion, according to founder Peyush Bansal, Lenskart plans to use the capital to expand online sales and add brick-and-mortar stores in India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
Oyo, one of the larger startups in the SoftBank Group’s portfolio, was struggling to restructure and whittle down loss-making operations even before the pandemic obliterated travel.
Bangalore-based Unacademy has made a mark for itself in test preparation by offering lessons on everything from civil service and banking to programming languages.
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
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