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Shadowfax appoints three independent directors to its board

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Shadowfax appoints three independent directors to its board
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Shadowfax, a provider of e-commerce express parcel and value-added solutions, has announced the induction of three distinguished professionals—Bijou Kurien, Ruchira Shukla, and Pirojshaw Sarkari—as independent directors on its board. According to Shadowfax, this strategic move reinforces its commitment to enhancing governance, leveraging domain expertise, and driving operational excellence. Bijou Kurien brings over 35 years of experience in FMCG, consumer durables, and retail. As a founding member of Titan Industries and Reliance Retail, he played a key role in building and scaling multibillion-dollar businesses. He currently advises private equity funds and startups and serves on several listed and unlisted corporate boards. Ruchira Shukla, co-founder and managing partner at Synapses, a VC fund specializing in STEM-led investments in climatetech and healthtech, has over 25 years of experience in venture capital, private equity, strategy consulting, and investment banking across India, the US, and Europe. Previously, she led disruptive technology investments across South Asia at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Pirojshaw Sarkari (Phil), a chartered accountant by profession, is a seasoned leader in logistics and supply chain management. He was instrumental in establishing UPS in India and later served as the CEO of Mahindra Logistics, driving its growth into one of India’s largest 3PL companies and leading its successful IPO. He also held the position of CEO at Gati Allcargo. Shadowfax states that the onboarding of these independent directors enhances its governance framework and reinforces its focus on operational excellence and innovation, ensuring that it remains at the forefront of India’s evolving e-commerce and D2C landscape. The Bengaluru-based company recently secured Rs 34.2 crore (around $4 million) as a part of a larger Series F funding round. The company has reported a 33.2% year-on-year growth to Rs 1,415 crore in revenue during the fiscal year ending March 2024. Founded in 2015 by Abhishek Bansal, Vaibhav Khandelwal, Praharsh Chandra, and Gaurav Jaithliya, Shadowfax provides services to a vast network of customers with industry-leading Turnaround Time (TAT) at competitive prices. It boasts a unique crowdsourcing network comprising 125,000 monthly active delivery partners and 3.5 million registered users.

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Amagi appoints independent directors ahead of IPO

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Amagi appoints independent directors ahead of IPO
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Amagi, a cloud-based media SaaS company, has appointed two independent directors in compliance with the Companies Act, ahead of filing its Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). The board at Amagi has appointed Ira Gupta and Giridhar Sanjeevi as independent directors of the company, its regulatory filings accessed from the Registrar of Companies (RoC) shows. Gupta currently serves as an Independent Director at SRF Limited and Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company. Previously, she was Head of HR at Microsoft India and held leadership roles at GlaxoSmithKline. The details about Sanjeevi couldn’t be ascertained. As per media reports, Amagi is planning to raise Rs 3,200 crore through public listing, and has appointed Kotak Mahindra Capital, Citigroup, IIFL Capital, and Goldman Sachs as book-running lead managers. Amagi is a cloud-based media SaaS company offering solutions for content creation, distribution, and monetization. Its platform enables broadcasters to virtualize operations and deliver personalized ads for clients such as Warner Bros., NBCUniversal, Rakuten TV, and Paramount. According to startup data intelligence platform TheKredible, the SaaS unicorn has raised around $340 million to date from investors including Premji Invest, Accel, General Atlantic and others. Amagi, which had secured a stable revenue stream following a challenging pivot, became a unicorn in March 2022 after raising $100 million in its largest funding round led by General Atlantic. During the fiscal year ending March 2024, the company recorded 29% year-on-year growth in its operating revenue to Rs 879 crore while managing to reduce its losses by 23.7% to Rs 245 crore in FY24. Several companies gearing up for their IPOs—such as Zepto, Milky Mist, PhysicsWallah, and Shadowfax—have recently added independent directors to their boards to comply with SEBI’s regulatory norms. In April, Zepto brought on Akhil Gupta, Vice Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, as an independent director. That same month, Milky Mist appointed Radha Venkatakrishnan and Mallika S. Janakiraman as additional (independent) directors. Earlier, edtech unicorn PhysicsWallah and logistics startup Shadowfax each named three independent directors in March and February, respectively.

Milky Mist appoints independent directors ahead of IPO

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Milky Mist appoints independent directors ahead of IPO
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Indian dairy company Milky Mist has appointed two independent directors to comply with the Companies Act’s independence requirements ahead of filing its Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). The board at Milky Mist has appointed Radha Venkatakrishnan and Mallika S Janakiraman as additional directors (in the capacity of independent directors), its regulatory filing accessed from the Registrar of Companies (RoC) shows. According to media reports, the company plans to raise Rs 2,000 crore through its IPO, comprising a mix of fresh issues and offers for sale, with an estimated valuation of around $2.3 billion. JM Financial, IIFL Capital, and Axis Bank are likely to serve as lead managers for the offering. Founded by T. Sathish Kumar, Milky Mist follows a direct farm-to-fork model, sourcing milk from farmers and processing it in its facility. Specializing in value-added dairy products like paneer, cheese, and curd, it serves modern trade, quick commerce, and HoReCa segments. The company claims to process 1.5 million litres of milk daily at its fully automated 75-acre facility in Perundurai, Tamil Nadu. During the fiscal year ending March 2024, the company recorded 33% year-on-year growth in its revenue to Rs 1,900 crore. However, its profit slipped to Rs 19.46 crore in FY24 from Rs 28 crore in FY23. Recently, several companies such as Zepto, Physics Wallah, and Shadowfax have appointed independent directors to comply with regulatory requirements set by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) ahead of their planned public listings.

Meesho appoints three independent directors

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Meesho appoints three independent directors
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E-commerce firm Meesho has appointed Jubilant Bhartia Group founder Hari S Bhartia along with three other seasoned business leaders as independent directors. Along with Bhartia, Meesho has onboarded former JP Morgan Chairman Kalpana Morparia and PhonePe non-executive Chairman Rohit Bhagat to its board of independent directors. Bhartia is also the co-chairman of Jubilant Ingrevia Ltd and Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd, the master franchisee of Domino’s Pizza and Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants in India. Before serving JP Morgan, Morparia was at ICICI Bank. In May, Meesho appointed Surojit Chatterjee as an independent director to its board. The development comes at a time when Meesho is in the process of moving its domicile to India from the US. Meesho recently announced an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) buyback program of Rs 200 crore (approximately $25 million), making it the company’s largest ESOP buyback pool to date.

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