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Flipkart announces new ESOP liquidity worth $50 Mn

EntrackrEntrackr · 6d ago
Flipkart announces new ESOP liquidity worth $50 Mn
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Flipkart announces new ESOP liquidity worth $50 Mn This announcement follows Flipkart’s record $700 million payout to employees in 2023, one of the largest ESOP buyback events in Indian startup history. Flipkart has announced a fresh ESOP (Employee Stock Option Plan) liquidity opportunity for its employees, according to an internal note from the company’s chief executive officer Kalyan Krishnamurthy. As per the note, eligible employees will be allowed to liquidate up to 5% of their vested ESOPs as of July 5, 2025, at a buyback price of $174.32 per option. Payouts will be made in August 2025 under the Flipkart Stock Option Plan 2012. An ET report estimates the size of the ESOP buyback at $50 million, with 7,000 to 7,500 employees expected to benefit from the liquidity program. Flipkart is currently valued at around $36 billion. Krishnamurthy also added that if key performance goals are met by the end of 2025, another 5% liquidity window could open in early 2026. A Flipkart spokesperson confirmed the development to Entrackr. This announcement follows Flipkart’s record $700 million payout to employees in 2023, one of the largest ESOP buyback events in Indian startup history. Media reports indicate the firm plans to launch its IPO with a valuation of $60-$70 billion. The company’s board has already approved the process to shift its holding structure from Singapore to India. In 2025, a clutch of startups including Darwinbox, Rapido, Univest, Deserve, and Even Healthcare have implemented ESOP buyback, liquidity, and payout programs worth around $67 million. In 2024, more than 20 startups implemented $200 million. According to startup data intelligence platform TheKredible, the ESOP buyback or liquidity amount stood at $802 million in 2023, $440 million in 2021, and $200 million in 2022.

Whatfix rolls out $58 Mn liquidity event for employees and investors

EntrackrEntrackr · 9m ago
Whatfix rolls out $58 Mn liquidity event for employees and investors
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Whatfix, a digital adoption platform (DAP), has introduced a $58 million liquidity program for its employees and investors. This marks the company’s fourth buyback of employee stock options (ESOPs). The Bengaluru-based company stated that eligible current and former employees now have the chance to sell a portion of their vested units at a premium over the earlier Series D valuation. This announcement comes on the heels of the company’s recent $125 million Series E funding round, led by Warburg Pincus, with contributions from existing investor SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Consequently, the firm’s valuation increased to $900 million from $600 million during Series D fundraise. It has raised over $265 million to date Whatfix introduced its first employee stock ownership plan or ESOP buyback scheme worth $4.3 million in July 2021. The firm did not announce the other two buybacks in the media. Founded by Khadim Batti and Vara Kumar, Whatfix provides in-app guidance and performance support for web applications and software products. Its tools are used by large companies to drive efficiency. The company asserts that it has been awarded five patents by the US Patent Office, with an additional 18 patents in the works. Despite facing macroeconomic challenges over the past two to three years, Whatfix claims to have kept its cash burn low while sustaining growth. The firm has doubled its workforce to over 960 employees, and has opened four new offices in Singapore, Germany, Australia, and India since its Series D funding round. This is the second largest ESOP buyback in 2024. In July, IPO-bound food delivery and quick commerce firm Swiggy announced an ESOPs liquidity programme worth $65 million. In the ongoing calendar year, Urban Company, MyGate, Classplus, Meesho, The Sleep Company, XYXX, Purplle, Dehaaat, Leverage Edu, Pocket FM and Adda247 bought back ESOPs from their employees.

Capillary Technologies set to raise $90-100 Mn via secondary

EntrackrEntrackr · 1y ago
Capillary Technologies set to raise $90-100 Mn via secondary
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Customer loyalty and engagement technology solutions provider Capillary Technologies is all set to raise $90-100 million in a secondary round, sources aware of the development told Entrackr. “Existing investors are selling their stakes in Capillary and this is an extension to the previous round,” said one of the sources requesting anonymity. In June 2023, Capillary announced the closure of its $45 million series D round from Avataar Ventures along with its LPs (Pantheon, 57Stars, and Unigestion), Filter Capital, and Innoven Capital. Capillary offers a comprehensive view of consumers, and unified, cross-channel strategies that deliver a real-time omnichannel, personalised, and consistent experience for customers. It has a presence across the United States, India, the Middle East, Asia, et al. Founded by Aneesh Reddy, Krishna Mehra, and Ajay Modani, the company works with over 100 loyalty programs, and over 250 brands including the likes of Tata, PUMA, Shell, Al-Futtaim among others. As per sources, Capillary is likely to close this transaction soon. Queries sent to Capillary did not elicit an immediate response. We’ll update the story in case we hear from them. Earlier, Capillary had claimed that the US accounts for more than a third of its revenue. The firm also acquired three companies in the US – Persuade, Brierley+Partners, and Tenerity’s Digital Connect. While Capillary is yet to disclose its FY23 financial results, it reported Rs 223 crore in revenue from operations during FY22. The firm’s losses also jumped from Rs 22.8 crore to Rs 100 crore during FY22.

Swiggy adds fresh ESOPs worth $52 Mn

EntrackrEntrackr · 2m ago
Swiggy adds fresh ESOPs worth $52 Mn
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Swiggy adds fresh ESOPs worth $52 Mn Food delivery and quick-commerce platform Swiggy Limited on Monday announced fresh employee stock options under its Employee Stock Option Plan 2024 for eligible employees. The Nomination and Remuneration Committee passed a circular resolution to grant 12,896,462 ESOPs (Employee Stock Options) to its employees, according to a disclosure filed by Swiggy with the National Stock Exchange (NSE). As per the filings, each stock option will be converted into an equity share. Based on Swiggy's current market valuation, the newly granted ESOPs are valued at Rs 443.4 crore, or approximately $52 million. The development comes three months after it allotted 2.61 crore shares under various ESOP schemes. The company’s paid-up equity share capital also increased to Rs 2.26 crore from Rs 2.23 crore. Recently, Swiggy invested Rs 1,000 crore in its subsidiary Scootsy Logistics for expansion. Scootsy Logistics contributed 42% of Swiggy’s overall revenue in the previous quarter. Swiggy has yet to file its financial results for the last quarter of the last fiscal year (Q4 FY25). During the Q3 FY25, the company recorded a 31% year-on-year growth to Rs 3,993 crore, compared to Rs 3049 crore in Q3 FY24. In the pursuit of growth, the losses for Swiggy grew 39.2% to Rs 799 crore in the same period. After today's trading session, Swiggy's stock closed at Rs 343.85 per share, bringing its total market capitalization to Rs 78,620 crore (around $9 billion). Amid recent market volatility, the company also hit an all-time low of Rs 306.95 on April 7.

Perfios turns unicorn with $80 Mn funding from Teachers’ Venture Growth

EntrackrEntrackr · 1y ago
Perfios turns unicorn with $80 Mn funding from Teachers’ Venture Growth
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​​SaaS-based B2B fintech firm Perfios has raised $80 million in a new round from Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG), a late-stage venture and growth investment arm of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. The new round has come after six months of $229 million Series D round for the Bengaluru-based company. With this, the firm has also crossed the $1 billion valuation mark and entered the unicorn club. Perfios plans to continue its international expansion and strengthen its global footprint, while also utilising the funds towards exploring inorganic growth opportunities, the company said in a press release. It will also continue to invest in its tech stack to power the end-to-end customer journeys across banking, insurance, and embedded commerce. Perfios helps in the aggregation and analysis of financial data such as bank statements, tax data, and business financials to generate reports across the areas of credit assessment, monitoring, fraud, and banking data aggregation. It has acquired more than 100 large clients across banks, NBFCs, digital lending platforms, mutual fund companies, insurance companies, and human resources. With a presence in 16 countries, Perfios claims to empower over 1,000 financial institutions, deliver 8.2 billion data points to banks and financial institutions every year to facilitate faster decisioning, and process 1.7 billion transactions a year with an AUM of $36 billion. B2B SaaS fintech company Perfios has announced a buyback of ESOPs worth Rs 154 crore (approximately $18.5 million) from its 135 current and former employees. With this, Perfios has joined a list of handful of growth-stage companies that have bought back employees’ stock this year. Soon after the previous fundraise, Perfios announced a buyback of ESOPs worth Rs 154 crore (approximately $18.5 million) from its 135 current and former employees. The firm also turned profitable in FY23 while its revenue from operations spiked three-fold to Rs 407 crore in the fiscal year ending March 2023 from Rs 136 crore in FY22. Ahead of FY23, Perfios acquired fintech startup Karza Technologies and the Rs 600 crore acquisition seems to have paid off as the latter alone booked Rs 168 crore in revenue and Rs 51 crore profit after tax in the last fiscal year. Perfios becomes the second unicorn of 2024 from the Indian startup ecosystem. Last month, Bhavish Aggarwal’s artificial intelligence startup Krutrim SI Designs announced that it raised $50 million at a valuation of $1 billion.

HealthKart raises $153 Mn, completes first ever ESOP buyback

EntrackrEntrackr · 8m ago
HealthKart raises $153 Mn, completes first ever ESOP buyback
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Omnichannel nutrition platform HealthKart has raised $153 million led by ChrysCapital and Motilal Oswal Alternates. Existing investor A91 Partners along with Neo Group also participated in the new round. HealthKart owns and operates several nutrition brands including MuscleBlaze, HKVitals and Gritzo. Apart from online presence, the firm has over 200 retail stores across 90 cities. In December 2022, HealthKart raised $135 million led by Temasek with participation from A91 Partners and Kae Capital. According to the startup data intelligence platform TheKredible, the Gurugram-based firm has raised around $360 million to date. As per the company’s press release, it crossed 1,000 crore in revenue threshold in FY24, and also achieved full year EBITDA profitability during the said fiscal year. While the firm has yet to file the audited numbers officially, it recorded Rs 832 crore revenue in FY23 with a loss of Rs 76 crore. HealthKart spun off its generic drug search business, HealthKartPlus, in 2015 and rebranded it as 1mg, which now operates under Tata 1mg Technologies Private Limited. Along with the funding, HealthKart has also announced its first ever employee ESOP buyback plan worth Rs 55 crore ($6.5 million). The buyback will benefit both current as well as former employees. According to TheKredible’s data, more than 20 startups have implemented ESOP buyback, liquidity, and payout programs worth around $200 million in the ongoing calendar year (2024).

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