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Exclusive: Pine Labs elevates CEO Amrish Rau to MD and Chairman

EntrackrEntrackr · 6m ago
Exclusive: Pine Labs elevates CEO Amrish Rau to MD and Chairman
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Exclusive: Pine Labs elevates CEO Amrish Rau to MD and Chairman Pine Labs, a merchant commerce and payments platform, has promoted its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Amrish Rau, from the role of Additional Director to Managing Director and Chairman. His elevation comes as the company prepares for its Initial Public Offering. Importantly, Rau continues to be the CEO of the Peak XV-backed firm. The board of Pine Labs has passed a resolution appointing Amrish Rau as the Managing Director and Chairman of the company for a five-year term, effective March 24, 2025, according to its filing with the Registrar of Companies (RoC). Rau joined Pine Labs as its CEO in March 2020. Prior to this, he was chief executive of Prosus-backed PayU India. Pine Labs recently received final approval from the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to reverse flip its Singapore-based entity back to India. With this move, the fintech unicorn joined other Indian unicorn companies such as PhonePe, Groww, Zepto, and Dream11, which also relocated their headquarters back to India recently. The payments firm is eyeing to launch an IPO in the second half of 2025. As per media reports, the company is eyeing a $1 billion public issue and would comprise of issue of fresh equity shares and an offer for sale (OFS). Pine Labs is a merchant commerce platform that offers POS (point of sale) services which let merchants accept plastic cards and QR-based payments in their stores. It also offers Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), invoice management, and gifting solutions. According to data intelligence startup TheKredible, Pine Labs has raised nearly $1.3 billion in funding to date from investors including Peak XV Partners, Temasek, PayPal, Mastercard, and others. The company currently holds a valuation of $5 billion. While Pine Labs is in the final stages of relocating its domicile from overseas back to India, a number of other startups—including Razorpay, Meesho, KreditBee, Udaan, Livspace, and several others—are also actively working on shifting their domiciles to India.

Pine Labs rewards CEO Amrish Rau with Rs 243 Cr ESOPs ahead of market debut

EntrackrEntrackr · 11d ago
Pine Labs rewards CEO Amrish Rau with Rs 243 Cr ESOPs ahead of market debut
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url: https://entrackr.com/news/pine-labs-rewards-ceo-amrish-rau-with-rs-243-cr-esops-ahead-of-market-debut-10617990. Content: Pine Labs has filed its RHP for a Rs 3,900 crore IPO. In the past four months, it added ESOPs worth Rs 564.75 crore, including Rs 243 crore granted to CEO Amrish Rau. Merchant payments and lending platform Pine Labs has filed its RHP for a Rs 3,900 crore IPO. In the past four months, the company added ESOPs worth Rs 564.75 crore, with a large portion valued at Rs 243 crore granted to their Chief Executive Officer, Amrish Rau. According to its RHP, Pine Labs had an ESOP pool of 6.15 crore options valued at Rs 1,360 crore as of June 30, 2025. Over the following four months (July 1 to November 1), the company granted an additional 2.55 crore options, expanding the total pool to 8.7 crore. Of these, 2.75 crore options were exercised and converted into equity shares at exercise prices ranging from Rs 5.4 to Rs 156. Some options were forfeited or lapsed during the period, leaving Pine Labs with 5.89 crore as a total outstanding ESOP options valued at around Rs 1,300 crore ($148 million). Of the 2.55 crore options granted in the past four months, 1.1 crore were allotted to CEO Amrish Rau, with the remainder going to other key managerial personnel. According to the red herring prospectus, before June 2025, Rau had already had 2.31 crore options, bringing his total to 3.41 crore worth Rs 755.6 crore. Pine Labs’ Rs 3,900 crore IPO includes a fresh issue of equity shares worth Rs 2,080 crore and an offer for sale (OFS) of up to 8.23 crore shares valued at Rs 1,820 crore by existing shareholders. In the OFS, early backer Peak XV is set to receive around Rs 508.4 crore, earning a return of nearly 40x on its investment. Other shareholders, including Madison India, Sofina Ventures, Temasek, PayPal, Mastercard, Invesco, and Lone Cascade, will also participate in the share sale. Pine Labs recorded a 28.5% year-on-year rise in revenue to Rs 2,274 crore in FY25, up from Rs 1,769 crore in FY24, while its net loss narrowed by 57% to Rs 145 crore. Notably, the company turned profitable in the first quarter of FY26, reporting a net profit of Rs 4.7 crore on revenue of Rs 616 crore.

Emirates NBD ties up with Pine Labs to strengthen merchant acquiring solutions

EntrackrEntrackr · 1y ago
Emirates NBD ties up with Pine Labs to strengthen merchant acquiring solutions
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Fintech firm Pine Labs has partnered with Emirates NBD, one of the leading banking groups in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey (MENAT), to bring world class payment acquiring solution to the region. As part of its growth plans, Emirates NBD is expanding its offering by leveraging Pine Labs’ Credit+ platform to deliver merchant acquiring processing solutions for its corporate and institutional clients, initially in the UAE then across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The expanded suite of solutions will empower the bank’s clients to improve their digital payment system for both online and instore payments. “We have built many retail payment solutions in India and these are very relevant in global markets. RTP, Online, Contactless, Token management, NFC all services included here. Couldn’t be more excited with global Fintech,” said Amrish Rau, CEO of Pine Labs. According to Rau, Pine Labs’ acquiring processing platform Credit+ is built for scale and is already live in more than 20 countries. Emirates NBD has presence in 13 countries, serving over 9 million active customers. The Group has operations in the UAE, Egypt, India, Türkiye, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Russia and Bahrain and representative offices in China and Indonesia with a total of 858 branches and 4,450 ATMs.

Baron and Invesco mark up Pine Labs’ valuation

EntrackrEntrackr · 1y ago
Baron and Invesco mark up Pine Labs’ valuation
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US-based investment firms Baron Funds and Invesco have marked up the valuation of fintech unicorn Pine Labs. While Baron increased its valuation to $5.8 billion, Invesco marked the firm’s value up to $4.8 billion as of December 2023. Earlier, Baron Funds valued the firm at $5.3 billion in September last year whereas Invesco cut its valuation to $3.9 billion as of October 31. Invesco had last invested $100 million in Pine Labs in September 2021 while Baron Capital led a $285 million round in the fintech unicorn in May. ET reported the development first via regulatory filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Pine Labs has been facing ups and downs in its fair valuation since last year. For the record, Fidelity marked up its stake value in July last year but later slashed its valuation to $3 billion from $4.7 billion as of October. Pine Labs’ revenue continued to climb in FY23 as its collection spiked 56% to Rs 1,588 crore. However, its losses still not tapering down and grew by 12% to Rs 227 crore. The firm is yet to file its FY24 numbers. Pine Labs has been trying to go public for the past few years as its backers including Peak XV Partners are eyeing an exit. Last year, it finalized bankers for an IPO in the US but the attempt didn’t materialize even though the firm’s chief executive Rau refuted the reports of delaying the public listing plan on NASDAQ. On the lines of other large fintechs such as Groww and Razorpay, Pine Labs is seeking to move its domicile to India which appears to have a better public market sentiment for tech companies. Besides Pine Labs, Swiggy, Meesho, FirstCry and Ola Electric also saw markups in their valuation in the last six months.

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