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Magicpin becomes largest food delivery seller app on ONDC

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Magicpin becomes largest food delivery seller app on ONDC
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Magicpin on Tuesday said that it has emerged as the largest food delivery seller on the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), processing nearly 150,000 daily food and logistics orders. Since joining ONDC in March 2023, Magicpin claims to have expanded its restaurant partnerships from 22,000 to 70,000 by September 2024. Within just four weeks of its ONDC launch, Magicpin scaled from 100 to 10,000 orders in May 2023, reaching 150,000 orders this year. The platform’s growth is driven by its SaaS offering, which powers the front-end of other buyer apps, and its hyperlocal delivery service, Velocity, launched earlier this year. Magicpin’s Delivery as a Service (DaaS) is now used by brands like KFC, Burger King, and IGP gifting. Recently, Magicpin announced an investment of Rs 100 crore to onboard 1 lakh new restaurants and cloud kitchens onto ONDC. This investment also funds onboarding incentives, such as zero commission, no onboarding fees, discounts, and free delivery for customers of newly partnered restaurants. Magicpin is also a local savings platform, serving over 10 million users who earn rewards on annual spending exceeding $3 billion across 275,000 retailers and over 3,000 brands in categories such as fashion, food, electronics, grocery, and more.

Magicpin triples revenue to Rs 870 Cr in FY24, cuts losses

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Magicpin triples revenue to Rs 870 Cr in FY24, cuts losses
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Magicpin triples revenue to Rs 870 Cr in FY24, cuts losses Hyperlocal retail platform Magicpin demonstrated notable financial results, scaling nearly three-fold during the last fiscal year, which ended in March 2024. Moreover, the Gurugram-based firm managed to control its losses by 25% in the same period. Magicpin’s revenue from operations surged 2.92X year-on-year to Rs 870 crore in FY24 from Rs 297 crore in FY23, its annual financial statements sourced from the Registrar of Companies show. Magicpin, a hyperlocal retail platform, has partnered with over 500 brands and 20,000 fashion stores across India. The sale of vouchers contributed 92% of its total operating revenue, making it the primary revenue source for the Lightspeed-backed firm. Additional revenue came from commissions and ONDC subsidies. The company earned an additional Rs 9.6 crore from interest on deposits and investment gains, bringing its total income to Rs 880 crore in the last fiscal year from Rs 315 crore in FY23. Magicpin has launched MagicFleet, an AI-powered SaaS platform that onboarded over 40,000 riders in its first four months and now processes more than 3,00,000 orders per month. The company plans to expand this to 1,00,000 riders and 1 million deliveries. It introduced magicNow, a feature designed to meet the increasing demand for fast deliveries. For the reward platform firm, the procurement of vouchers was the largest cost center, forming 80.7% of the overall expenditure. To the tune of scale, this cost grew 3X to Rs 776 crore in FY24 from Rs 253 crore in FY23. The firm managed to keep its employee benefits flat and its advertising cost was reduced by 15% in the previous fiscal. Its delivery charges, technology, server, payment gateway, legal, and other overheads pushed the total expenditure to Rs 961 crore in FY24. The three-fold surge in scale coupled with controlled expenditure helped Magicpin to reduce its losses by 25% to Rs 78 crore in FY24. Its ROCE and EBITDA margins stood at -49.7% and -8.67%, respectively. Magicpin’s cost efficiency improved, with Rs 1.10 spent to earn a rupee in FY24. At the end of the last fiscal year, its total current assets stood at 196 crore with the cash and bank balance of Rs 50 crore. We excluded ESOP costs from the loss calculation as they are non-cash expenses. Magicpin reported that FY 2024 was a transformative year, establishing itself as India’s largest hyperlocal startup, the third-largest food delivery app, and the largest seller app on ONDC for delivery, according to CFO Chunky Shah. Magicpin has grown without raising external funds in the past two fiscal years. In November 2021, it secured $60 million in a Series D round, with Zomato investing $50 million for a 16% stake. According to TheKredible, Lightspeed is the largest stakeholder, holding a 34% stake in the firm. Launched well after the first startup rush into ecomm but early enough to avoid some of the worst excesses, Magicpin has done well to outlast many of its peers since it started in 2015. Leaving it well placed to take advantage in a market that has evolved considerably, and no longer demands the kind of burn rates we saw till about 2020. As a leader in the ONDC space, Magicpin has gained a strategic advantage and appears well-positioned to leverage new opportunities. The company, often seen as a quiet performer, may still have more surprises in store.

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