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Deepinder Goyal to enter health and mental fitness space with ‘Continue’

EntrackrEntrackr · 8m ago
Deepinder Goyal to enter health and mental fitness space with ‘Continue’
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Zomato co-founder and chief executive officer Deepinder Goyal has incorporated a new venture named Continue, which will focus on health tracking and mental wellness. However, the new venture is purely personal, with no Zomato involvement. Launched in April 2024 under the legal name Upslove Advisors Private Limited, the company’s shareholders—Deepinder Goyal (holding 99.9%) and Ashish Gotal (holding 0.1%)—contributed an initial capital of Rs 50 lakhs, as per a regulatory filing accessed from the Registrar of Companies (RoC) The domain Continue.com, marketed as “The Ultimate Health Tracker,” currently provides no additional details. The domain was registered under the new entity Upslove Advisors Private Limited. According to the RoC, Deepinder Goyal being the active director while Simrandeep Singh and Akriti Mehta have been appointed as additional directors of Upslove Advisors Private Limited. Based on their LinkedIn profiles, both Singh and Mehta have been with Zomato for the past 5 and 7 years, respectively. The new venture, Continue, is set to compete with Ultrahuman and Mindhouse, founded by former Zomato COO Mohit Kumar and co-founder Pankaj Chaddah, respectively. Notably, Goyal pumped in $10 million in Ultrahuman’s Series B funding. Zomato has shown a strong interest in the health and fitness segment, having previously acquired Fitso, which it later sold to Tata Digital-owned Curefit. With the launch of Continue (health), Deepinder Goyal now has his foot in several sectors, including food delivery (Zomato), quick commerce (BlinkIt), entertainment and ticketing (District), and B2B supplies (HyperPure). In July, Goyal entered the billionaire dollar club as the value of his holdings in Zomato surpassed Rs 8,400 crore ($1 billion). The move into new ventures might be surprising to some, as Zomato is hardly in cruise control mode as a business, despite moving into profits. The business remains volatile, with many issues that need addressing, besides sustaining profitability. Add to that the continuous parade of ‘co-founder’ exits, and one would imagine Goyal would have given a lot of thought to the move into a new personal project. The collegiate environment that has been projected at Zomato however fits in well with the move, with the firm showing a willingness to back ex-employees with ideas. One assumes Goyal has a plan to dilute his holdings in favour of relevant people who make an impact at Continue like the other ventures he has backed, without distracting him from his main job of running Zomato, as investors in the latter will also be hoping.

Byondnxt secures fresh funding, Zomato stake reduced to 6%

EntrackrEntrackr · 7m ago
Byondnxt secures fresh funding, Zomato stake reduced to 6%
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Byondnxt, which operates the kitchen appliances brand Beyond Appliances, has secured additional funding from a group of new investors. Zomato, which recently acquired an 8% stake in the Bengaluru-based startup, did not participate in this latest funding round. In a stock exchange filing on Sunday, Zomato said that the fundraising was completed on November 30, and the Deepinder Goyal-led company’s shareholding in Byondnxt reduced to 6% on a fully diluted basis. In October, Zomato acquired an 8% stake in Byondnxt for about Rs 6,000. Byondnxt, founded by Eshwar Vikas, who also founded Mukunda Foods, is a direct-to-consumer (D2C) brand specializing in the design and manufacturing of kitchen appliances. In March 2022, Zomato invested $5 million to acquire a 16.66% stake in Mukunda Foods, a company that supplies smart kitchen equipment to business-to-business (B2B) clients. Rakesh Patil is the other co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of Beyond Appliances. This is the second funding round for a Zomato-backed company in the past three months. In September, adtech startup AdOnMo raised $25 million in a funding round led by the Singapore-based venture capital (VC) firm Rigel Capital and Indonesia-based Sinar Mas. Meanwhile, Zomato chief Goyal also incorporated a new venture named Continue, which will focus on health tracking and mental wellness. Zomato Limited recently raised Rs 8,500 crore (around $1 billion) through a Qualified Institutions Placement (QIP) of equity shares.

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