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Winzo ends FY23 with Rs 674 Cr revenue and Rs 126 Cr PAT

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Winzo ends FY23 with Rs 674 Cr revenue and Rs 126 Cr PAT
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Online gaming startup Winzo registered 2.8X growth in its scale during the fiscal year ending March 2023. Significantly, the Delhi-based company also posted a hefty profit of Rs 126 crore in the same period. Winzo’s revenue from operations surged to Rs 674 crore in FY23 from Rs 234 crore in FY22, its consolidated financial statements filed with the Registrar of Companies show. Established in 2018, Winzo offers over 100 games across categories such as strategy, sports, casual, card, arcade, racing, action, and board games. The service fees levied on the total funds involved in real money games, and the sale of digital or in-app vouchers were the only revenue drivers for Winzo. The company also made Rs 16.78 crore from interest (non-operating), taking its total revenue to Rs 691 core in FY23. Similar to every online gaming platform, Winzo spent a major chunk (46% of its total expenditure) on marketing (advertising cum promotions). This cost surged 29.6% to Rs 258 crore in FY23. The firm’s burn on employee benefits, legal-professional, commission paid to agents, direct gaming costs, and other overheads catalyzed its overall expenditure to Rs 564 crore in FY23 from Rs 375 crore in FY22. See TheKredible for the complete expense breakdown. Expense Breakdown Total ₹ 375 Cr https://thekredible.com/company/winzo-games/financials View Full Data To access complete data, visithttps://thekredible.com/company/winzo-games/financials Total ₹ 564 Cr https://thekredible.com/company/winzo-games/financials View Full Data To access complete data, visithttps://thekredible.com/company/winzo-games/financials Employee benefit Employee benefit Information technology Information technology Legal professional Legal professional Commission paid to other selling agents Commission paid to other selling agents Advertising promotional Advertising promotional Gaming related direct cost Gaming related direct cost Others To check complete Expense Breakdown visit thekredible.com View full data Caveat: We have excluded the cost of financial liabilities designated at fair value through profit and loss (CCPS) while calculating the total expenses for both years (FY23 and FY22). That said, a notable jump in scale helped Winzo report Rs 126 crore profit in FY23 as compared to a loss of Rs 130 crore in FY22. Its ROCE and EBITDA margin improved to 27% and 19% respectively. On a unit level, the company spent Rs 0.84 to earn a rupee in FY23. FY22-FY23 FY22 FY23 EBITDA Margin -53% 19% Expense/₹ of Op Revenue ₹1.60 ₹0.84 ROCE -39% 27% Winzo has raised around $100 million to date including a $65 million Series C round led by California-based Griffin Gaming Partners in July 2021. According to the startup data intelligence platform TheKredible, Makers Fund is the largest external stakeholder with 15.77% followed by Griffin Gaming Partners and Courtside Ventures. The significant jump in profits for Winzo underscores the best case scenario for most gaming platforms today. A high fixed cost business till it achieves critical mass in terms of users and fees, and post that, very low cost increases, as most of the incremental money goes to the bottomline. For Winzo, however, future investments will beckon soon, both in terms of new game development as well as the high marketing spends, which it will find tough to tamp down for now. But with a growing gamers user base across the country and with itself, next only to China, maintaining margins may not be as tough. You can be sure that if it does so in FY24, India will have its next high growth Unicorn from gaming to talk about.

Games24x7 crosses Rs 2,000 Cr income in FY23; controls losses

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Games24x7 crosses Rs 2,000 Cr income in FY23; controls losses
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Real money gaming platform Games24x7 has continued to grow its scale: their collection grew 70% year-on-year in FY23. The controlled spending on employee benefits and advertising helped the Mumbai-based firm keep its losses in check during the same period. Games24x7’s revenue from operations grew 70.1% to Rs 1,988 crore in FY23 from Rs 1,169 crore in FY22, its consolidated financial statements filed with the Registrar of Companies show. Games24x7 mainly runs RummyCircle and the fantasy sports platform, My11Circle. The platform fee deducted for joining tournaments or contests is the primary source of revenue for Games24x7 which accounted for 99% of the operating income. The rest of the operating revenue comes from selling virtual items in freemium games. The company also added Rs 35 crore from the interest and gain on current investment tallying the overall income to Rs 2,023 crore in FY23. For the gaming platform, advertisement and business promotion expenses accounted for 66% of the overall expenditure, which surged by 61.7% to Rs 1,421 crore in FY23 from Rs 879 crore in FY22. The firm’s burn on employee benefits, legal, traveling, training, recruitment, subscription membership, and other overheads took its overall expenditure up by 43.4% to Rs 2147 crore in FY23. The 70% growth in scale and controlled cost helped the firm’s losses go down to Rs 199 crore in FY23 from Rs 282 crore in FY22. Its ROCE and EBITDA margin improved to -18% and -4.6%, respectively. On a unit level, it spent Rs 1.08 to earn a rupee in FY23. FY22-FY23 FY22 FY23 EBITDA Margin -24% -4.6% Expense/₹ of Op Revenue ₹1.28 ₹1.08 ROCE -48% -18% Games 24×7 has raised over $107 million to date including its $75 million round led by Malabar Investment at a valuation of $2.5 billion. According to the startup data intelligence platform TheKredible, Tiger Global is the largest external stakeholder with 22.39%. In March, Games24x7’s My11Circle became the new fantasy sports official partner for IPL (Indian Premier League) for five years, outbidding its rival Dream11. Games24X7 also said that it has tripled its marketing investment this year. This will reflect in the company’s financial performance in FY25.

Mylab’s op revenue nosedives to under Rs 100 Cr in FY23, slips into losses

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Mylab’s op revenue nosedives to under Rs 100 Cr in FY23, slips into losses
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Adar Poonawalla-backed Mylab thrived during the pandemic (FY21 and FY22) when the demand for covid related testing and other services skyrocketed. In the subsequent fiscal year ending March 2023, however, MyLab’s scale nosedived around 64% as the world returned to normalcy. Furthermore, a steep fall in demand also led the Pune-based firm to book sizable losses in FY23 against profits in FY21 and FY22. While the company achieved a 100X growth to Rs 825 crore in FY21, its scale dwindled to Rs 95 crore in FY23, Mylab’s consolidated financial statements filed earlier this week with the Registrar of Companies show. Mylab Even as the company remained profitable in FY22, Mylab’s scale has been on a downward trajectory since then. In FY22, the operating revenue was already down 68.4% to Rs 260.71 crore. Founded in 2016, Mylab develops and sells diagnostic kits for clinical diagnostics. Similar to FY21 and FY22, the sale of such kits continued to be the sole source of operating revenue for Mylab in FY23 The company also added Rs 29 crore from interest and miscellaneous sources tallying the total income to Rs 124 crore in FY23. On the cost side, the manufacturing of kits formed 27% of the total expenditure. In the line of decreasing scale, this cost was reduced by 60% to Rs 50 crore in FY23. The firm’s burn on employee benefits, legal fees, advertising, royalty, conveyance, and other overheads took its total expenditure to Rs 185 crore in FY23 from Rs 250 crore in FY22. See TheKredible for the detailed expense breakup. The decline in scale and fixed overheads led Mylab into losses for the first time in the last three reported fiscals. The company recorded a loss of Rs 47 crore in FY23, compared to a Rs 16 crore profit in FY22. Its ROCE and EBITDA margin worsened to -18% and -24.19%, respectively. On a unit level, it spent Rs 1.95 to earn a rupee in FY23. FY22-FY23 FY22 FY23 EBITDA Margin 14.81% -24.19% Expense/₹ of Op Revenue ₹0.96 ₹1.95 ROCE 11.42% -18.01% Much like online edtechs, online healthcare also seems to have vastly underestimated the fight in offline firms that missed out during the pandemic. Be it schools and other institutions in the case of edtech, in healthcare too we have seen offline diagnostic labs and institutions fight hard to claw back share and revenues from the diagnostics market that online firms had grabbed during the pandemic. It’s a battle they understand well with first access to patients in many cases, and we are already hearing of cases where many clinics and hospitals insist on their test lab result. Doubts have also been raised on the credibility of test lab results that are picked up at home and analysed subsequently. Mylabs test kits and ancillary services model has faced these problems, and come up severely short, going by the look of things. The firm needs a better diagnosis for its own survival, and growth plans.

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