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Consumer Software
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Company Size
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Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$1.3B
Headquarters
Bengaluru, India
Founded
2015
Meesho operates in the Indian e-commerce sector, focusing on a reselling business model that allows individuals to earn money online. Users, known as resellers, can browse a variety of products on the Meesho app and share them on social media platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp. Each time a product is sold through their promotion, resellers earn a profit margin. This model is particularly attractive to those who want to start an online business without needing any upfront investment or technical skills. Meesho sources products from suppliers and provides them on its platform for resellers to promote. The company earns revenue by taking a commission from the sales made through its app. Unlike traditional e-commerce platforms, Meesho empowers individuals, including homemakers, students, and small business owners, to leverage their social networks for sales. The goal of Meesho is to make e-commerce accessible to everyone, enabling anyone to start a business with no financial barriers.
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$1298.6M
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8 Rounds
Kapu, a Kenyan e-commerce startup, has secured pre-Series A funding to scale its operations in the east African nation bolstering its go-to-market strategy, strengthening its logistics network, and introduce new fintech features as well as expanding across Africa.The funding round was led by BlackWood with participation from Giant Ventures, firstminute capital, Norrsken VC, Founder Collective, Hesabu Capital, and Base Capital. The round follows an $8m seed round in 2022 to help Kapu reduce the cost of living for mass-market consumers by offering essential goods via its network of Kapu agents in neighborhoods which Kapu sees as as important for optimizing logistics and operations. Kapu CEO Sam Chappatte, and a former Jumia Kenya Country Manager, hopes that Kapu’s micro-market strategy will help it build a new retail model for Africa’s mass market. Kapu aims to prove profitability before expanding city-wide and eventually across the continent. Founded in 2022, Kapu is reportedly serving 100,000 households per month and processing 2 million customer orders annually. Kapu aims to save African consumers $1bn over the next 10 years
Advent International is in advanced talks to acquire a controlling stake in Orra Fine Jewellery, valuing it at â‚ą1,500-1,750 crore. Meanwhile, Meesho has secured $500 million in funding from investors like Tiger Global and WestBridge Capital, concluding its pre-IPO fundraising. Meesho plans a reverse merger of its Indian unit with its US parent and aims for an IPO in 2026, with a valuation around $3.9-4 billion. Slice Bank is also planning to raise $250 million to expand its digital banking operations.
Meesho has reportedly secured an additional $250-270 million from new investors, including Tiger Global, Think Investments, and Mars Growth Capital, primarily through secondary share sales. This brings the total funding round to $550 million. Additionally, Meesho has filed an application with the NCLT to shift its domicile to its Indian unit, Fashnear Technologies, paving the way for its future plans to go public.
Quick commerce platform Zepto has officially transitioned its domicile from Singapore to India, as confirmed by the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Ramesh Bafna."Historic scenes on completion of #IndiaFirst reverse merger from Singapore to India in the #FastestEver timeline," Bafna said in his LinkedIn post.This relocation, commonly known as a reverse flip, allows the Mumbai-based company to establish its headquarters in India and move forward with its plans for an initial public offering (IPO), which has been in progress for several months.“This is a display of understanding of (the) technicals, working with right partners, getting into (the) nuts and bolts on execution, unblocking natural causes of delay and tactical calls real time by an empowered team,” the post said.The transition follows the National Company Law Tribunal’s (NCLT) recent approval of Zepto’s reverse merger.Also Read Zepto triples annualised GOV to $3B in eight months ahead of IPOWith this move, Zepto joins companies like Groww and PhonePe, which have also relocated their domicile to India from the US and Singapore. Several other fintech firms, including Flipkart, KreditBee, Pine Labs, Razorpay, and Meesho, are also in the process of executing reverse flips.Earlier, the Indian entity operated as a subsidiary of Kiranakart Pte Ltd, headquartered in Singapore.According to a January 9 order issued by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) Kiranakart Technologies Private Ltd has been permitted to become the holding company of Zepto.“The board of directors of the petitioner company believes that the scheme is in the best interests of the entity and its stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, and creditors,” the NCLT order stated.For the fiscal year ending March 2024, Zepto’s revenue from operations more than doubled, increasing 2.2 times to Rs 4,454 crore, up from Rs 2,026 crore in FY23. During the same period, the company managed to slightly reduce its losses by 2%, bringing them down to Rs 1,248.6 crore.The company has been raising capital. It recently secured $350 million in a funding round led by Motilal Oswal Private Wealth, pushing its valuation to $5 billion. The company has raised $1.85 billion to date
Before this round, SolarSquare also raised $19.5 million across three rounds of funding from Meesho, NoBroker, UrbanLadder, Paytm, and GoFynd.
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Industries
Consumer Software
Consumer Goods
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$1.3B
Headquarters
Bengaluru, India
Founded
2015
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