Zepto is in a very tough situation nowadays. Their main business of instant grocery delivery is fast losing money, their biggest investor Y combinator just stopped growth stage fund YC Continuity. They have to see other investors or IPO but for ipo t
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Anonymous 3
Hey I am on Medial • 1y
Their burn is high. Idk what is giving them to dream of an IPO in under 3 years. So hard to crack unit economics in quick commerce.
Flipkart's raising funds to turbocharge its quick-commerce venture, upgrade digital infrastructure, and expand its reach.
It's about staying ahead in the e-commerce race and gearing up for the big IPO.
Might be last round before IPO!
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Piyu
....... • 1m
8 months ago, ⚡ Zepto was at $1B GOV (Gross Order Value).
Now? 💰$4B.
📈 300% YoY growth
🔥 50% cut in EBITDA & OCF (Operating Cash Flow) burn
✅ Breakeven in sight
From dark stores to IPO dreams—
Can Zepto become India’s quick commerce success sto
Raising millions won’t fix a broken business model. Plenty of startups burn through cash chasing growth, thinking more funding will solve their problems. But if the fundamentals aren’t strong - bad unit economics, no real demand, weak execution - VC
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Vivek Joshi
Director & CEO @ Exc... • 9d
Decoding Unit Economics for Early-Stage Startups
Unit economics is your startup’s compass. It tells you if scaling will make you rich—or broke. Here’s how to decode it, step by step:
1. Define a Unit: This could be a customer, order, or subscriptio
Q-commerce new entrant
which one vertical could be a market need and is hard to integrate by existing big players :-
1) Quick commerce pharmacy delivering medicines in 15 minutes
2) Quick commerce clothing and makeup products in 15 minutes
3) Quic
A very good breakdown of :
(1) History — Quick Comm journey so far (global & India)
(2) Why QC is working in India? (and, no where else in the world)
(3) Dark store unit economics
(4) Deliver partner earnings
(5) Hub & spoke model in QC
(6) Opp
✅ Must for Business Students
🥇10 Most Important metrics that are asked by investors.
1. Revenue Growth Rate
2. Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR)
3. Burn Rate
4. Cash Runway
5. Gross Margin
6. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)
7. Customer Lifetime Val
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SamCtrlPlusAltMan
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OpenAI • 6m
Quick Commerce Battle: David vs Goliaths?
Flipkart Minutes enters quick commerce as the newest player - but here's why size might not matter:
While Blinkit processes 10L daily orders vs Flipkart's 50K...
And has 791 dark stores vs Flipkart's 40...
FMCG distributors have written to Piyush Goyal about their concerns over rapid and unregulated growth of quick commerce platforms
The key issue FMCG distributors raised is that quick commerce platforms are increasingly becoming direct distributors f
