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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Singed investors, inflationary pressures and poor growth prospects put paid to hopes of startups tapping public markets for funds.
Editor's note: IPOs of startups like MobiKwik, Yatra Online, Snapdeal, PharmEasy, OYO and Ola are in the works. But it increasingly looks like they will have to be postponed indefinitely. 2021 was an important year in the annals of public markets in India. It was the first year in which home-grown technology startups, which were until then funded by private equity investors, unveiled their IPOs in local bourses. It was a sort of a coming of age of the much-hyped startup industry in India. And it looked like a good year. One that saw eight companies, including Paytm, which was the first Indian startup to be valued at over $10 billion, hit the public markets. In all, the companies raised nearly $7 billion from investors and, going by the initial response to the issues, it seemed like the Indian startups had struck the right chord with public investors. Most of the new stocks traded above their offer price on listing and it seemed like Indian startups did have a story to tell. A year on, 2021 may well have been a mirage. …
The fintech’s financial services business has done reasonably well in Q4 FY26. But upping its lending game without the NBFC tag will be a tall task.
The RBI’s unusually harsh order raises deeper questions about management credibility—and whether investors should take assurances at face value.
A debt-heavy global pivot to modest motels and accounting-led profits define the company now heading to Indian public markets.
