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Alibaba.com Seeks CCI To Acquire Stakes In BigBasket

10Nov By RishabhNo Comments

FUNDING

Alibaba.com Seeks CCI To Acquire Stakes In BigBasket

Chinese e-tailing giant Alibaba has been reported seeking formal approval Competition Commission of India(CCI) to acquire substantial stakes in the Indian online grocery startup BigBasket. Earlier in July, Alibaba and SoftBank backed Paytm initiated a discussion to acquire stakes by investing $200 million in the online grocer. Although Paytm and BigBasket declined at that moment about the development. As soon as it gets the permit Alibaba Group Holding's Alibaba.com Singapore E-Commerce will carry out the transaction. As per the source VCCircle this acquisition will help the online grocery firm BigBasket to consolidate its numero uno position and help it compete with rival Amazon, who has committed $500 million towards its food retail unit in the coming 2 years. Also Recomm...

9Oct By PriyankaNo Comments

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Home Decor Startup MyGubbi Raises $2.7 Mn Pre-Series A Funding

Customized home interiors decor startup MyGubbi has raised $2.7 million pre-series A funding led by the family office of Firoze Irani; Vipul Parekh(co-founder BigBasket), Ananda Kallugadde(co-founder of NeoBytes) and Rajesh K Murthy(President Infosys), among others. Founded by Umesh Sangurmath and Ravi Rao in 2015, MyGubbi (Kannad for 'My Sparrow'), the startup aims on the interior design and furnishing solutions; allowing its customers to design their dream homes. The company earlier raised a funding of around $2.5 million by Vipul Parekh and others. ALSO READ 20 Years Old AOL Instant Messenger To Sign Off The funds raised will be utilized to grow the business. "We would look at going deeper into existing markets, as well as strengthen our backend. We are a...

Paytm In Talks To Acquire Online Travel Company Via.com

19Sep By PriyankaNo Comments

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Paytm In Talks To Acquire Online Travel Company Via.com

One97 Communications' Paytm is in discussions and likely to acquire online travel company Via.com as it doubles down on its travel and hospitality business. Paytm has held preliminary discussions although a term-sheet is yet to be signed, according to some people aware of the developments. The valuation of Via.com could could hit as high as $80 million for the sale, according to the source VCCircle. Bengaluru-based Via.com, backed by venture capital investors including IndoUS Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital, had earlier raised about $15 million in funding. The company was founded in 2007, formerly known as FlightRaja has 100,000 active travel partners across 2,600 towns and cities, and covers more than 13,000 pin codes across Asia. RELATED Paytm In Talks To Acq...

Paytm Likely To Pick Up Stakes In BigBasket For $200 Million

12Jul By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Paytm Likely To Pick Up Stakes In BigBasket For $200 Million

Alibaba and SoftBank-backed Paytm is believed to be in discussions to pick up minority stake in online grocery retailer, BigBasket for about USD 200 million, according to sources. The due diligence is on and the deal could be finalised in the next few weeks, sources privy to the development said. They did not wish to be identified as discussions are still on and the deal has not been signed yet. When contacted Paytm declined to comment, while BigBasket said: "This is completely untrue". With people becoming comfortable buying even milk and bread online, online grocery segment is projected to witness a strong growth over the next few years. According to a report by Franchise India, the online grocery market is expected to be Rs 2.7 billion market by 2018-19. Industry watc...

BigBasket to Invest Rs 50 Cr in B2B Food Services Business

13Apr By AdityaNo Comments

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BigBasket to Invest Rs 50 Cr in B2B Food Services Business

Online grocery store BigBasket today said it plans to invest Rs 50 crore over the next 12 months to scale up revenues coming from hotels and restaurants segment. The company, which started supplying grocery to hotels, restaurants and caterers (HoReCa) segment from June last year, aims to clock a revenue run rate of Rs 500 crore from the segment by March 2018. Revenue run rate is a term used in online retailing to indicate total value of merchandise sold over a time-frame to predict future performance. "BigBasket is setting up dedicated distribution centres across eight cities to scale up the business and has plans to achieve Rs 500 crore exit rate by end of FY 2018," BigBasket co-founder and Head (New Initiatives) Abhinay Choudhari said in a statement. At the end of March this ...

Bigbasket.com Comes to Aid of Crisis-Hit Farmers in Karnataka

27Aug By PriyankaNo Comments

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Bigbasket.com Comes to Aid of Crisis-Hit Farmers in Karnataka

bigbasket.com, India's largest online supermarket has taken a lead by voluntarily setting a subsistence price of tomatoes for farmers hit by crisis due to the sudden crash of tomatoes in Karnataka. With a glut of tomatoes in the Bangalore market owing to a bumper harvest in the growing regions of Kolar, Malur and Chikbalalpur, prices in the wholesale markets have crashed to as low as Rs 1/- per kg. A price as low as this does not even recover the cost of production of tomatoes, which is around Rs 5/- per kg. As a first step towards addressing the ongoing crisis, bigbasket.com has decided to pay the farmer a subsistence price of Rs 7/- per kg as against the market price of Rs 5/- to cover at least the cost of cultivation of the farmer and give him a sustenance income. At the same t...

MobiKwik Registers 5000 Percent Growth on Big Basket

22May By AdityaNo Comments

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MobiKwik Registers 5000 Percent Growth on Big Basket

MobiKwik, India's largest independent mobile payments' network today announced that it has registered 5000 percent growth on Big Basket, India's largest online supermarket Bigbasket offers over 20,000 products from over 1,000 brands and is present in 25 cities across the country including Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai and Delhi-NCR. Upasana Taku, Co-founder, MobiKwik said, "Grocery is an everyday purchase and MobiKwik's phenomenal growth on Big Basket suggests how entrenched MobiKwik is in our users every day transactions. If there is an online commercial transaction, MobiKwik's vision is to facilitate it. The e-grocery market is a key vertical for us therefore, and is experiencing tremendous growth". Research firm IGD predicts that India's online grocery market is esti...

China’s Baidu in talks with Indian e-commerce start-ups for funding

13Jan By reutersNo Comments

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China’s Baidu in talks with Indian e-commerce start-ups for funding

Baidu Inc, a Chinese web services company, is in talks to invest in Indian e-commerce start-ups including Zomato, BookMyShow and BigBasket, a spokesman for China's top online search provider said on Wednesday. "The Indian market represents an enormous opportunity for us to connect more people with services, and we plan to put more resources there in the future," the spokesman told Reuters by email. Baidu declined to comment on possible investment amounts or time frames. India's technology start-up market is booming as more and more people shop online, in a country where about 20 percent of a population of 1.3 billion are connected to the Internet. The e-commerce market could grow in terms of the value of goods sold to $220 billion by 2025 from $11 billion in 2015, Bank of America Merr...