🚀 Medial Secures Investment on Shark Tank India - Fueling the Future of Professional Social Networking. 🔥
Login

News on Medial

Related News

Meesho slashes adjusted losses by 97% to Rs 53 Cr in FY24

EntrackrEntrackr · 8m ago
Meesho slashes adjusted losses by 97% to Rs 53 Cr in FY24
Medial

Meesho claimed to have achieved profitability in June 2023, and the SoftBank-backed firm appears on track to post full fiscal year profitability sometime in FY25 or FY26, as its adjusted losses plummeted 97% to Rs 53 crore for the fiscal year ending March 2024. Meesho registered a 33% year-on-year growth in operating revenue in FY24, reaching Rs 7,615 crore compared to Rs 5,735 crore in FY23, according to the company’s press release. The firm’s revenue growth was triggered by a 36% growth in orders. Home & kitchen, beauty & personal care, and baby essentials were top categories at the Bengaluru-based platform, as per the release. While the company hasn’t provided specific expense figures, Meesho claimed that organic growth and efficiencies in logistics through its own firm, Valmo Logistics, helped it to reduce overall costs in the last fiscal year. The new vertical was officially launched in February this year. Meesho achieved a dramatic reduction in year-on-year losses, shrinking 97% to Rs 53 crore in FY24 from Rs 1,569 crore in FY23, according to the release. The loss figure is adjusted, but it is unclear which costs have been excluded. The firm stressed that share-based compensation paid to employees was excluded from the adjusted bottom line. It’s worth noting that Meesho also concluded its largest ESOP buyback program worth $25 million during the last month of FY24. Meesho is the third-largest horizontal e-commerce platform in India, after Flipkart and Amazon, claiming 14.5 crore unique annual transacting users. “...With over 50 crore downloads, we continued to be the most downloaded shopping app,” the release mentioned. Meesho competes with Flipkart Internet and Amazon India’s marketplace arm. While Amazon India marketplace (B2B) unit has yet to disclose FY24 numbers, Flipkart Internet reported 26.4% growth in its gross revenue which stood at Rs 70,542 crore in FY24. According to an ET report, Meesho secured a $275 million tranche in May this year as part of a larger funding round, which included both primary and secondary components. The company is also working on relocating its domicile from the U.S. to India, though there are no definitive details on the timeline for its initial public offering (IPO).

Exclusive: Fintech startup CheQ closes new round at $6.7 Mn

EntrackrEntrackr · 1y ago
Exclusive: Fintech startup CheQ closes new round at $6.7 Mn
Medial

Credit card bill payment management platform CheQ has secured Rs 18.5 crore (around $2.2 million) additional proceeds in its extended seed round. This is the second tranche of the round for the Bengaluru-based company. The new tranche came after a month of its $4.5 million extended series round. Entrackr was the first to report the development last month. The board at CheQ has passed a resolution to allot 6,855 Seed 1 CCPS at an issue price of Rs 26,988.91 each to raise Rs 18.50 crore, its regulatory filings accessed from the RoC shows. Lloyd Dizon and Zenaida Dizon Balajadia invested Rs 4.16 crore each while Sherpalo LLC (a venture by Ram Shriram), Hitesh Gupta, and Amit Lakhotia participated with Rs 8.32 crore, 10 lakhs, and 25 lakhs respectively. As per filings, the company will use these funds for growth, expansion, marketing, and general corporate purposes as decided by the board. According to startup data intelligence platform TheKredible, the company has been valued at around Rs 460 crore or $55.4 million (post-money) after the fresh tranche of the extended seed round. Founded in 2022 by Aditya Soni, CheQ helps customers simplify the discovery and management of all credit products and allows you to pay your credit card bill, and EMI on a single platform. The startup has raised over $17 million to date including its $10 million seed round led by Venture Highway and 3one4 Capital in June 2022. CheQ remained a pre-revenue stage firm with a revenue of only Rs 2 crore during the fiscal year ended March 2023. However, the losses for the three-year-old firm stood at Rs 19.4 crore in the same period. CheQ competes with fintech unicorn CRED which has secured around $1 billion to date and was valued at $6.4 billion in its last fundraise. According to the startup data intelligence platform TheKredible, it posted Rs 1,400 crore in revenue with a loss of Rs 1,347 crore during FY23.

Atomicwork closes Seed round at $14 Mn

EntrackrEntrackr · 9m ago
Atomicwork closes Seed round at $14 Mn
Medial

B2B SaaS startup Atomicwork has raised an additional $3 million in its seed round from Abhinav Dhar, ex-CIO of TransUnion, Prasad Ramakrishnan, CIO and technology leader, Avanish Sahai, former ecosystem leader at Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Google Cloud and Rich Waldron, CEO of Tray. The firm’s existing investors like Storm Ventures, Z47 (formerly Matrix Partners), Blume Ventures, and Neon Fund also participated in the round. This is the second tranche of its seed round. In September last year, Atomicwork had raised $11 million led by Blume Ventures and Matrix Partners India. With this, the total funding for the startup stands at $14 million. The proceeds will be used for enterprise AI agent technology, fuel the firm’s GTM team expansion in the United States over the next three years, the company said in a press release. Founded in September 2022 by Vijay Rayapati, Kiran Darisi, and Parsuram Vijayasankar, Atomicwork provides software that automates workflows under the information and technology (IT), human resources (HR), finance, and other business functions. It helps companies instantly help their employees by collecting tribal knowledge from across the organization – stored in docs, wikis, information systems, email threads, and chat conversations. Previously, Rayapati had founded Minjar which raised $2 million before getting acquired by US-based publicly-listed cloud infrastructure company Nutanix for about $50 million. Blume also invested in Minjar’s initial funding round. Darisi and Vijayasankar were part of the founding team of SaaS unicorn Freshworks.

Download the medial app to read full posts, comements and news.