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IIFL Fintech floats Rs 500 Cr Fund II

EntrackrEntrackr · 2m ago
IIFL Fintech floats Rs 500 Cr Fund II
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IIFL Group backed IIFL Fintech Fund has announced the final close of its second fund after raising Rs 500 crore from domestic family offices and high net worth individuals. The Series II fund targets early to growth stage fintech startups, with a focus on companies using generative artificial intelligence to build financial services products. The fund plans to invest in 20 to 25 startups across lending, payments, compliance, wealthtech, insurtech, and embedded finance. Around 20 to 25 percent of the second fund will be allocated for follow on investments in top performing companies from its first fund. IIFL Fintech had announced the first close of its second fund at Rs 200 crore in January 2025 and has already backed five startups through this. These include companies such as education focused fintech GrayQuest, voice AI startup Fundamento, banking infrastructure startup Knight Fintech, and a secondary share purchase in document infrastructure firm Leegality, among others. According to IIFL Fintech, it actively partners with fintech founders to help them validate, deploy, and scale their solutions within a large financial services ecosystem. The fund closed its first fund in 2022 after raising Rs 200 crore. IIFL Fintech Fund was set up in 2021 with the aim of investing in early stage fintechs that the IIFL Group could collaborate with. Over the last four years, the IIFL Fintech Fund has invested across multiple fintech segments. Its portfolio includes Leegality, FinBox, DataSutram, Finarkein Analytics, Finvu, Trendlyne, Insurance Samadhan, Xtracap Finance, Castler, Vitra.ai, EasyRewardz, Multipl, Riskcovry, and TrustCheckr, which was sold to Truecaller.

Leegality posts two-fold growth in FY23, controls burn

EntrackrEntrackr · 2y ago
Leegality posts two-fold growth in FY23, controls burn
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Leegality, a document infrastructure platform, secured $5 million in funding led by IIFL Fintech Fund, resulting in a two-fold growth in operating scale during FY23. The company offers eSign, eStamp, compliance, document security, and automation tools to businesses. Its operating revenue increased by 2.05X to Rs 33.5 crore in FY23. Leegality's major revenue channels were income from e-sign, subscription, and stamp, while employee benefits accounted for the largest cost center. Despite the growth, the company managed to reduce its costs, resulting in a 38.5% increase in losses. Leegality has raised a total of $6.63 million in funding and is valued at $38 million. It competes with other legaltech startups in India.

SBI Mutual Fund buys additional 4% stake in Urban Company for Rs 632 Cr

EntrackrEntrackr · 3d ago
SBI Mutual Fund buys additional 4% stake in Urban Company for Rs 632 Cr
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SBI Mutual Fund buys additional 4% stake in Urban Company for Rs 632 Cr SBI Mutual Fund picked up an additional 4% stake in Urban Company through bulk and block deals on Tuesday worth Rs 632 crore across the NSE and BSE, which led the company’s shares to soar over 16%. According to bulk and block deal data, SBI Mutual Fund purchased 3.51 crore shares at Rs 109.85 apiece on the NSE and 2.25 crore shares at Rs 109.83 per share on the BSE, which together amounted to around Rs 632 crore. On the selling side, Wellington Hadley Harbor AIV Master Investors, DF International Partners, and ABG Capital offloaded a combined 4.6% stake worth Rs 734 crore, with ABG Capital selling 1.74 crore shares for Rs 191.2 crore, DF International Partners exiting via sale of 1.77 crore shares worth Rs 193.9 crore, and Wellington Hadley Harbor AIV Master Investors (Cayman) III divesting a 2.2% stake through multiple transactions worth Rs 349.2 crore. SBI Mutual Fund held a 1.89% stake in Urban Company as of December 2025, which rose to around 5.9% after the bulk purchases. In Q3 FY26, Urban Company reported a consolidated net loss of Rs 21 crore and an adjusted EBITDA loss of Rs 17 crore, largely due to heavy investment in its InstaHelp vertical, which crossed 50,000 daily bookings within a year of its pilot launch in March 2025. Urban Company’s share is trading at Rs 127.7 per share as of 2:22 PM (today), with a market capitalization of Rs 18,657 crore (around $2 billion).

Exclusive: Pravega and IIFL invest in GrayQuest’s Series B

EntrackrEntrackr · 1y ago
Exclusive: Pravega and IIFL invest in GrayQuest’s Series B
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Education loans-focused fintech startup GrayQuest is set to raise Rs 53 crore ($6 million) in a Series B round co-led by Pravega Fund and IIFL Fintech Fund. The board of GrayQuest has passed a resolution to offer and issue 6,228 fully paid up and 1,530 partly paid up Series B preference shares at an issue price of Rs 69,062 each to raise Rs 53.57 crore. Pravega Ventures and IIFL Fintech Fund each invested Rs 21.50 crore, while the company’s founder, Rishab Sumer Mehta, also participated with shares worth Rs 10.56 crore. The shares allotted to Rishab are partly paid, meaning the remaining amount will be called upon when the board decides. GrayQuest will utilize the fresh funding to meet financial requirements and support its expansion plan, the firm’s regulatory filings disclosed. The company has also increased its ESOP pool size by adding 1,204 new options, bringing the total ESOP pool to 5,718 options, as per a separate filing. Entrackr estimates that GrayQuest’s ESOP pool is currently valued at $4.5 million. The Mumbai-based startup had raised $7 million in its Series A round back in March last year, and $1.2 million worth pre-Series A round in August 2020. According to the startup data intelligence platform TheKredible, GrayQuest has been valued at around Rs 530 crore ( $64 million) post-allotment. The Series B round appears to be ongoing, and the startup is likely to raise additional funds, which could result in a variation in its valuation. Following the fresh proceeds, Pravega Ventures will hold 10.94% of the company, while IIFL Fintech Fund will own 4.07%. Its Founder Rishab Sumer Mehta will command a handsome 38.59% stake in the company. Seven-year-old GrayQuest is an integrated fee collection platform for educational institutions, allowing parents to pay annual education fees in flexible monthly installments with zero interest. Recently, Grayquest was selected for Co-Lab initiative, which was launched by HDFC Bank in collaboration with Pravega Ventures. For the fiscal year ending in March 2023, the startup reported Rs 8.76 crore in operating revenue with Rs 26.3 crore loss. It has yet to publish FY24 results. According to data compiled by TheKredible, GrayQuest and its competitors, including Leap, Auxilo, Avanse Financial, Financepeer, Propelld, Mpower Financing, and Eduvanz, have collectively secured approximately $500 million in funding over the past 24 months. In July, Entrackr exclusively reported that Leap is in talks to raise a new round at unicorn valuation.

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