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Exclusive: Pine Labs elevates CEO Amrish Rau to MD and Chairman

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Exclusive: Pine Labs elevates CEO Amrish Rau to MD and Chairman
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Exclusive: Pine Labs elevates CEO Amrish Rau to MD and Chairman Pine Labs, a merchant commerce and payments platform, has promoted its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Amrish Rau, from the role of Additional Director to Managing Director and Chairman. His elevation comes as the company prepares for its Initial Public Offering. Importantly, Rau continues to be the CEO of the Peak XV-backed firm. The board of Pine Labs has passed a resolution appointing Amrish Rau as the Managing Director and Chairman of the company for a five-year term, effective March 24, 2025, according to its filing with the Registrar of Companies (RoC). Rau joined Pine Labs as its CEO in March 2020. Prior to this, he was chief executive of Prosus-backed PayU India. Pine Labs recently received final approval from the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to reverse flip its Singapore-based entity back to India. With this move, the fintech unicorn joined other Indian unicorn companies such as PhonePe, Groww, Zepto, and Dream11, which also relocated their headquarters back to India recently. The payments firm is eyeing to launch an IPO in the second half of 2025. As per media reports, the company is eyeing a $1 billion public issue and would comprise of issue of fresh equity shares and an offer for sale (OFS). Pine Labs is a merchant commerce platform that offers POS (point of sale) services which let merchants accept plastic cards and QR-based payments in their stores. It also offers Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), invoice management, and gifting solutions. According to data intelligence startup TheKredible, Pine Labs has raised nearly $1.3 billion in funding to date from investors including Peak XV Partners, Temasek, PayPal, Mastercard, and others. The company currently holds a valuation of $5 billion. While Pine Labs is in the final stages of relocating its domicile from overseas back to India, a number of other startups—including Razorpay, Meesho, KreditBee, Udaan, Livspace, and several others—are also actively working on shifting their domiciles to India.

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Emirates NBD ties up with Pine Labs to strengthen merchant acquiring solutions

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Fintech firm Pine Labs has partnered with Emirates NBD, one of the leading banking groups in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey (MENAT), to bring world class payment acquiring solution to the region. As part of its growth plans, Emirates NBD is expanding its offering by leveraging Pine Labs’ Credit+ platform to deliver merchant acquiring processing solutions for its corporate and institutional clients, initially in the UAE then across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The expanded suite of solutions will empower the bank’s clients to improve their digital payment system for both online and instore payments. “We have built many retail payment solutions in India and these are very relevant in global markets. RTP, Online, Contactless, Token management, NFC all services included here. Couldn’t be more excited with global Fintech,” said Amrish Rau, CEO of Pine Labs. According to Rau, Pine Labs’ acquiring processing platform Credit+ is built for scale and is already live in more than 20 countries. Emirates NBD has presence in 13 countries, serving over 9 million active customers. The Group has operations in the UAE, Egypt, India, Türkiye, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Russia and Bahrain and representative offices in China and Indonesia with a total of 858 branches and 4,450 ATMs.

Pine Labs files DRHP; Peak XV emerges as lead seller in OFS

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Merchant payments and lending platform Pine Labs has filed its Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for an initial public offering (IPO) on Thursday. The IPO includes a fresh issue of equity shares worth Rs 2,600 crore (approximately $305 million) and an offer for sale (OFS) of 14.78 crore equity shares, according to the DRHP. Peak XV is set to offload around 3.9 crore shares, accounting for approximately 26.3% of the total offer for sale (OFS). Acitis Pine Labs Investment and Temasek will sell 1.49 crore and 1.48 crore shares, respectively. Other participants in the OFS include PayPal, Mastercard Asia, Invesco, Madison India, Sofina, Lightspeed, BlackRock, and individuals such as Amrish Rau, Lokvir Kapoor, Kush Mehra, among others. According to the DRHP, Peak XV is the largest external shareholder with a 20.35% stake, followed by Temasek and PayPal holding 7.1% and 6%, respectively. Actis Pine Labs Investment owns 5.78%, while Mastercard and Alpha Wave hold 5.24% and 3.39%, respectively. Amrish Rau holds a 2.35% stake, followed by Lokvir Kapoor with 1.97%. Pine Labs plans to list its shares on both the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). The IPO will be managed by Axis Capital, Morgan Stanley, CITI, JP Morgan, and Jefferies, who are acting as the book-running lead managers. According to the DRHP, the net proceeds from the fresh issue will be utilized for repayment of borrowing, investment in subsidiaries, technology, research, and other general corporate purposes. In the first nine months of FY25, the company posted a 23% year-on-year increase in revenue, growing to Rs 1,208 crore from Rs 982 crore. It also reported a net profit of Rs 26.1 crore during the period.

Pine Labs converts into public, appoints independent directors

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Pine Labs converts into public, appoints independent directors
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Pine Labs, a merchant commerce and payments platform, is set to debut on the Indian stock exchange, with its Indian entity recently converted into a public company — a key step toward its planned IPO. This conversion comes just weeks after the company received final approval from the National Company Law Tribunal to shift its domicile from Singapore to India. The board at Pine Labs has passed a resolution for approval to change its status to a public company and rename it from “Pine Labs Private Limited” to “Pine Labs Limited” as per its regulatory filing. The fintech unicorn also appointed three independent directors in compliance with the Companies Act, ahead of filing its Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India. Pine Labs has appointed Amrita Gangotra, Smita Chandramani Kumar, and Maninder Singh Juneja as independent directors, as per the filing. Gangotra, with over 35 years of experience in tech and business leadership, also serves on the boards of companies including Triveni Turbine, Max Healthcare, and ABB India. Kumar, a former RBI official with over three decades of experience, and Juneja, who has held senior roles at ICICI Bank, TransUnion CIBIL, and Niva Bupa, also sit on multiple boards. Last month, Pine Labs promoted its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Amrish Rau, from the role of Additional Director to Managing Director and Chairman. Entrackr exclusively reported the development. The payments firm is eyeing to launch an IPO in the second half of 2025. As per media reports, it’s eyeing a $1 billion public issue and would comprise of issue of fresh equity shares and an offer for sale (OFS). Pine Labs also roped in Axis Capital, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, JP Morgan, and Jefferies as bankers. Pine Labs is a merchant commerce platform that offers POS (point of sale) services which let merchants accept plastic cards and QR-based payments in their stores. It also offers Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), invoice management, and gifting solutions to merchants. According to startup data intelligence platform TheKredible, Pine Labs has raised nearly $1.3 billion in funding to date from investors including Peak XV Partners, Temasek, PayPal, Mastercard, and others. The company currently holds a valuation of $5 billion.

Baron and Invesco mark up Pine Labs’ valuation

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Baron and Invesco mark up Pine Labs’ valuation
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US-based investment firms Baron Funds and Invesco have marked up the valuation of fintech unicorn Pine Labs. While Baron increased its valuation to $5.8 billion, Invesco marked the firm’s value up to $4.8 billion as of December 2023. Earlier, Baron Funds valued the firm at $5.3 billion in September last year whereas Invesco cut its valuation to $3.9 billion as of October 31. Invesco had last invested $100 million in Pine Labs in September 2021 while Baron Capital led a $285 million round in the fintech unicorn in May. ET reported the development first via regulatory filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Pine Labs has been facing ups and downs in its fair valuation since last year. For the record, Fidelity marked up its stake value in July last year but later slashed its valuation to $3 billion from $4.7 billion as of October. Pine Labs’ revenue continued to climb in FY23 as its collection spiked 56% to Rs 1,588 crore. However, its losses still not tapering down and grew by 12% to Rs 227 crore. The firm is yet to file its FY24 numbers. Pine Labs has been trying to go public for the past few years as its backers including Peak XV Partners are eyeing an exit. Last year, it finalized bankers for an IPO in the US but the attempt didn’t materialize even though the firm’s chief executive Rau refuted the reports of delaying the public listing plan on NASDAQ. On the lines of other large fintechs such as Groww and Razorpay, Pine Labs is seeking to move its domicile to India which appears to have a better public market sentiment for tech companies. Besides Pine Labs, Swiggy, Meesho, FirstCry and Ola Electric also saw markups in their valuation in the last six months.

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