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Isprava doubles its revenue in FY24 with hefty profits

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Isprava doubles its revenue in FY24 with hefty profits
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Isprava Group, a luxury home development and rental firm, saw its revenue more than double in the fiscal year ending March 2024. The Mumbai-based company also achieved profitability, marking a notable turnaround. Isprava’s gross revenue from operations surged by 2.3X to Rs 452 crore in FY24 from Rs 196 crore in FY23, according to its consolidated financial statements sourced from the Registrar of Companies (RoC). Isprava Group builds and rents luxury homes in prime locations like Goa, Alibaug, and the Nilgiris. In addition to selling homes, they rent them as high-end vacation retreats with services like housekeeping and private chefs. The income from the real estate business accounted for 81.86% of the total operating revenue, which increased 89% to Rs 370 crore in FY24 from Rs 195 crore in FY23. The rest of the income comes from hospitality, which stood at Rs 74.5 crore in FY23. The company made an additional Rs 7 crore from interest income on investments which pushed its total revenue to Rs 458.5 crore in FY24. For the home developer firm, the cost of procurement which includes land, consumption of materials, and other construction costs formed 72% of its overall cost. In the line of scale, this cost surged 94% to Rs 299 crore in FY24 from Rs 154 crore in FY23. Its Employee benefit expenses rose by 3X to Rs 61.7 crore, while advertising costs doubled to Rs 14 crore. Other expenses added another Rs 37.3 crore. Its rent, legal, traveling, and other overheads took the total expenditure to Rs 412 crore in FY24 from Rs 206 crore in FY23. The impressive scale helped Isprava to turn profitable with a significant Rs 63 crore of profits in FY24, compared to a loss of Rs 7.5 crore in FY23. Its ROCE and EBITDA margin improved to 22.64% and 12.45% respectively with an expense-to-earning ratio of Rs 0.91. At the end of FY24, the company had a current asset worth Rs 446 crore including Rs 119 crore of cash and bank balance. Isprava has secured Rs 1,216.95 crore (over $150 million) in funding, including a Rs 160 crore round in January of the previous year. The Darshan Shah Family Trust holds nearly a 40% stake in the company. Prominent investors include the Nadir Godrej Family Office, Burman Family Office, and Symphony International Holdings.

Bizongo’s scale doubles to Rs 167 Cr in FY23; loss nears Rs 300 Cr

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Bizongo’s scale doubles to Rs 167 Cr in FY23; loss nears Rs 300 Cr
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Ecommerce-focused packaging company Bizongo has managed to double its revenue during FY23. The growth, however, came at a cost which is evident from its losses which jumped 2.7X during the said period. Bizongo’s revenue from operations grew 98.6% to Rs 166.86 crore during the fiscal year ending March 2023 as compared with Rs 84 crore in FY22, as per the company’s consolidated financial statements with the Registrar of Companies. Founded in 2015, Bizongo offers digital vendor management, supply chain automation & supply chain financing as key services to its enterprise customers. The platform serves 450-500 enterprise customers in fashion & lifestyle, pharmaceuticals, consumer discretionary, consumer staples et al. Bizongo also provides unsecured financing to vendors and according to the company it has tied up with more than 40 banks and non-bank financial companies for loan disbursement. Co-founded by Sachin Agarwal, Ankit Deb, and Ankit Tomar, the company made 96% of its revenue via service fees whereas the remaining part came from design income and platform fees. It also made around Rs 18.15 crore via interest and gains on financial assets during the year which took its topline to Rs 185 crore at the end of FY23. Bizongo spent 32% of its expenses on finance costs which largely include interest on bill discounting, interest on working capital demand loans, and interest on debentures. This cost ballooned 3.9X to Rs 151.95 crore during FY23 from Rs 38.8 crore in FY22. Employee benefit costs went up 79.4% to Rs 113.23 crore in FY23. This cost also includes ESOP expenses worth Rs 27.12 crore. The company also booked allowance for expected credit loss worth Rs 124 crore during the year. The company’s overall expenditure surged 97.1% to Rs 476.6 crore in FY23 from Rs 241.8 crore in FY22. Head to TheKredible for a complete expense breakdown and year-on-year financial performance of the company. Amid cash burn, the company’s losses spiked 173.1% to Rs 291.57 crore during FY23 as compared to Rs 106.76 crore in FY22. Its operating cash outflows, however, improved by 29.6% to Rs 646.3 crore during the last fiscal year. The EBITDA margin and ROCE of the company stood at -73.06% and -27.60%, respectively, during the year. On a unit level, Bizongo spent Rs 2.86 to earn a rupee of operating revenue in FY23. FY22-FY23 FY22 FY23 EBITDA Margin -46.45% -73.06% Expense/Rupee of ops revenue ₹2.88 ₹2.86 ROCE -9.52% -27.60% As per the startup intelligence platform TheKredible, Bizongo has raised over $260 million to date. In October last year, it raised $50 million in a Series E funding round led by existing investor Schroder Adveq. The Tiger Global-backed company was also in the news for its acquisition of Titan Capital-backed FactoryPlus, a factory digitization app for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), in November last year. Bizongo’s high provisions for credit loss indicate a cash-burning strategy to sort out the good, credit-worthy vendors from the bad, or worse, operational deficiencies that the firm must get a grip on to ensure its long-term survival. It remains in a promising segment to build a business at scale, but throwing money at the challenge to build a business is certainly not the answer. That investors have backed it as recently as last year indicates the possibilities they see for the firm to make a salutary impact on its segment, but we believe the time to show growth with improving margins is here.

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