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Senior editor @yourstoryco @thecaptableco Bylines @moneycontrolcom @livemint @vccircle @business , @Informistmedia @techcircleindia Usual disclaimers

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Nikhil Patwardhan
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✍️Some personal news: I’m taking on additional responsibilities at @YourStoryCo , alongside my role at @thecaptableco I want to thank @SharmaShradha and @jarshadnk for their trust—I’m excited to work closely with the YS editorial team to craft impactful stories.
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🚨🚨 Huge: Byju's has announced 2,500 layoffs across departments @Unibrowverse @chandrarsrikant
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Hello everyone! I've some personal news to share. After a fantastic stint with Moneycontrol I have decided to move on. Starting today, I'll be writing for @thecaptableco My focus will remain on covering edtech and the VC/PE ecosystem.
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"Allen Career Institute enrolls 1.25 lakh+ students in Kota; eyes the Limca book of records for maximum number of classroom students in a city." For what??! Are they teaching for breaking records?! How useless can this release be?!
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🚨🆕 EPFO probes Byju's. The company has now cleared 97% PF dues between August 2022 and May 2023 On Monday, Byju's vehemently denied having any pending PF dues. After we, and other media reported delay in PF Payments, the EPFO opened an investigation.
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🚨🚨🆕Byju's seeks $200 mn rights issue at $225 mn post-money valuation. This means that the pre-money valuation was $25 million!! One-thousandth of its previous valuation. But why was it done? A quick 🧵👇 1/8
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🚨🚨In the latest setback for Byju's, ED has carried out searches at three locations in Bengaluru related to Byju Raveendran and his company, Think & Learn, which operates the popular online learning platform @chandrarsrikant But what's happening? A 🧵👇
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. @BYJUS : To lay off 2,500 employees. Also @BYJUS : Announces principal sponsorship with Kerala Blasters FC Something to think about.
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🆕🚨Another Scoop on #Byjus Byju's has not cleared monthly payments of Salesforce and other data management tools, amounting to Rs 45-50 crore. Yesterday, all employees lost access to Salesforce, Tableau, Tooljet. @chandrarsrikant
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I complete one year at Moneycontrol today. A big thank you to the awesome @chandrarsrikant for guiding me throughout. A small milestone but quite a journey as I look back at all the stories I have done in the last 12 months. Here's a thread of my favourite ones👇
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So the BCCI, having thousands of crores of rupees in profits, battled hard for a paltry amount of Rs 158 cr and settled it. But spare a thought for the thousands of employees who were earning a few thousands a month, who didn't get their dues! Justice?
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🚨🚨 Byju's finally has a CFO! The world's most-valued edtech startup did not have a CFO for nearly 16 months, since its last CFO PV Rao quit in December 2021.
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Update: After a short but fruitful stint at @livemint and @vccircle I start @moneycontrolcom today. I will continue writing on startups and tech. Absolutely thrilled to work with some of the best ! @chandrarsrikant
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Chandra R. Srikanth
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🚨 Please join me in welcoming @patwardhannn to the @moneycontrolcom technology and startup team. Nikhil has been doing some excellent work and I'm thrilled to have him on board. He will be based in Bengaluru.
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The journalistic urge to tweet a page full of bylines... #journalism
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Monthly burn rates: Swiggy down to $20mn from $45-50mn Meesho down to $4 mn from $40-45mn Cars24 down to $6-8 mn from $22 mn Unacademy down to $4-5 mn from $25 mn
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🚨🆕SoftBank-porfolio startups mirror the Japanese investor, go on ‘total defence’ to weather funding winter Indian startups having SoftBank on its portfolio have cut costs by 50-75%, and have laid off over 5,000 people to weather funding winter
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Happy birthday to an absolute champion ✨ @imVkohli To the man carrying the "burden of the nation" for 14 years now. Thank you for all the memories
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Company aisi banao 4 logo ki neend, chain, weekend sab barbaad ho🫡 #IYKYK
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Unacademy: Too Much on its Plate? India's second-most valued edtech has been in the news largely for the wrong reasons since April last year. But what's happening inside? Here's a deep dive into the challenges of the edtech startup. A 🧵
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Nikhil Patwardhan
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🚨Jio Cinema just had 72 million concurrent views!!
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1 year
🚨🆕 The Byju's ripple effect: More scrutiny of revenue recognition on cards for India’s edtech firms. A 🧵👇
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🚨Layoffs, restructuring, slowdown: India’s multi-billion dollar edtech firms are struggling post-pandemic. A 🧵👇
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🚨🚨ShareChat, which raised more than $500 mn since December 2021, has laid off close to 600 employees in a cost-cutting initiative. The company was last valued at $5 billion, when it raised about $255 million in June from Google, Temasek and others. A 🧵 on some details👇
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The tweet has been deleted... But oops😂 #fridaynighttweet #Paytm
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🚨🚨🆕Prosus pegs the fair value of its 9.67% stake in Byju's at $578mn @deepsekharc @chandrarsrikant
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Nikhil Patwardhan
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🚨 Very important story today with @Unibrowverse Exactly a year back, on July 19, I had gone to Kota to see what's happening in the town with new players like Unacademy and PhysicsWallah coming in. A 🧵👇
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Nikhil Patwardhan
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🚨🆕 Prosus, Byju's largest institutional shareholder will chair the EGM slated to happen on Feb 23. The EGM is crucial for Byju's and its shareholders. But Byju Raveendran and his family do not plan on attending it. So what's next? A 🧵👇
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Nikhil Patwardhan
2 years
🚨🚨Important developments in India's slowing edtech sector A long 🧵with stories via @moneycontrolcom and @Unibrowverse @chandrarsrikant
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Nikhil Patwardhan
2 years
Flipkart wishes its employees a happy new year👌
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🚨🚨 At least 25,000 present and past employees of Flipkart group will likely benefit from its $700 million one-time cash payout, making it one of the biggest instances of wealth creation in India’s booming startup space. @patwardhannn & I report
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🚨🆕 Earlier this week, ET reported Amazon is eyeing a pie of Swiggy's Instamart as it wants to jump into the quick commerce frenzy But it looks like Amazon wants a pie of the entire biz, not Instamart In today's Crux, @prnvbal and I explore why Amazon wants Swiggy in its cart
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Nikhil Patwardhan
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🆕 🚨Swiggy to deliver DRHP by September first week. The SoftBank-backed foodtech platform, which confidentially filed papers with Sebi in April, will be filing draft papers for $1.3bn IPO. It's seeking a valuation of $16 bn. @jarshadnk @SharmaShradha
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☕️🚨 What's brewing inside Third Wave? At a time when VC investors are turning bullish on the specialty coffee segment, Third Wave Coffee, one of India's largest and fastest-growing chains, seems to be losing track. More details in our deep dive today @jarshadnk @CatizenKane
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The CapTable
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🚨☕️A lot is brewing inside one of India's largest and fastest-growing coffee chains, Third Wave Coffee. Despite being backed by big-name angel investors and private equity firms, Third Wave appears to have bitten off more than it can chew. Here’s what’s happening 🧵👇
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Nikhil Patwardhan
2 years
🚨🚨 More pain in store for edtech firms in India? Now, Practically, a K-12 immersive learning firm, lays off permanent and contractual employees, holds salaries of many, citing liquidity crunch amid a pending fundraise Scoop w @Unibrowverse A 🧵👇
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Nikhil Patwardhan
2 years
💥 I've spent nearly 10days in Kota capturing the town's mood Some of the anecdotes are just incredible and hard to believe Here's a special series of stories from Kota via @moneycontrolcom Stay tuned.. First story goes live tomorrow
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Moneycontrol
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📢Moneycontrol presents a special series, #NotesFromKota . @patwardhann delves into the high-pitched battle between the incumbents & the disruptors at India's coaching nerve centre, what a student's life is like & various businesses that have mushroomed here. Goes Live on July 26
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Please do.
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I’m shifting out from Maharashtra after seeing what Maharashtra is doing to BJP 💔
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🚨SoftBank says Meesho is using Gen AI to support customer support operations and is seeing a 20% improvement in experience scoring.
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Nikhil Patwardhan
4 months
Back to the grind after a small break. But @thecaptableco did some very interesting stories last week. Here's a quick recap @SharmaShradha @jarshadnk @Mittermaniac @prnvbal @CatizenKane
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Nikhil Patwardhan
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🚨🍿 A full-blown war is brewing between well-funded edtech companies. The battleground is India’s oldest and most famous higher education hub--Kota. A long 🧵
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Nikhil Patwardhan
2 years
💫 Over the last 3 wks I've been talking to a lot of people from Kota to understand the economics and emotions of the town Here's an attempt at putting together some on-ground anecdotes of India's $500 mn education hub Via @moneycontrolcom @chandrarsrikant
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🚨🚨 Brownie points for guessing this.. Something interesting coming up on @moneycontrolcom tomorrow @Unibrowverse @chandrarsrikant
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Celebrating India's 5th ICC trophy with a 5 ft Dosa
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🚨🚨 The world's largest edtech company has posted a 14% decline in its FY21 revenue, when even bankrupt companies like Lido Learning saw their revenues surging manifold What's next for India's edtechs? @chandrarsrikant @deepsekharc
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Nikhil Patwardhan
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🆕What's happening with India's edtech soonicorns?🤔 So many edtech companies raised funds during Covid and made headlines with their valuations. But we don't hear much about them, do we? A 🧵👇
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2 years
🚨🚨 Ankiti Bose says her apps are filled with hate messages
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🚨🆕More layoffs at Byju's? Over 5,000 employees across departments are said to have received performance notices. What lies in store for the world's most-valued edtech? A long 🧵👇
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Nikhil Patwardhan
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🚨🚨 Scoop: SoftBank has fully exited Policybazaar parent PB Fintech and Zomato. The Japanese investor has yielded close to$500 mn from the stake sale I ✍️ for @thecaptableco @SharmaShradha @jarshadnk @CatizenKane @Mittermaniac #StockMarketNews
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🚨🆕 Bumper exits for @SoftBank ! Scoop: SoftBank has fully exited @policybazaar and @zomato adding half a billion dollars in its kitty
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Nikhil Patwardhan
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On an average, a student in Kota pays up to Rs 2.5 lakh a year. About 150,000 students are admitted to the Kota coaching centres annually. Going by these estimates, the coaching centers of Kota have a market size of as much as $500 million or about Rs 3,800 crore.
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🚨🆕 Unacademy, one of India's latest education companies, once thrived on the model of hiring star teachers. But since the funding winter kicked in, the company fired a bunch of these teachers who were earning crores to cut costs What are these teachers doing now? A 🧵👇
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Nikhil Patwardhan
2 years
🚨MoUs on Green Hydrogen @investkarnataka Investment of up yo Rs 2.91 lakh crore, 7 cos. ACME Solar- Rs 51,865 cr ReNew- Rs 50,000 cr abc engines- Rs 50,000 cr Avaada Energy- Rs 45,000 cr JSW Energy- Rs 43,407 cr Petronas- Rs 31,200 cr O2 Power- Rs 17,820 cr @moneycontrolcom
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Nikhil Patwardhan
1 year
Remember the time when founders used to say we will do an IPO in 2 years? This was 2021 when Covid was at its peak and so was VC funding in India It has been 2 years since then, but we haven't seen a single of those IPOs. So what's happening? When will we see tech IPOs? A 🧵
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👉Several summonses were issued to Byju Raveendran, but he remained evasive & never appeared during the investigation An investigation was initiated on the basis of various complaints received from various private persons
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Nikhil Patwardhan
6 months
🚨🆕Byju's has given up all its office spaces in the country, in the latest of cost-cutting initiatives undertaken by the embattled edtech firm @thecaptableco over the weekend, visited office spaces of Byju's in Delhi NCR and Bengaluru. Details👇
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The CapTable
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🚨BREAKING🚨: Byju’s has given up nearly all its offices amidst a worsening cash crunch. The company’s employees have been ordered to work from home indefinitely. More details in our exclusive free story:
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🚨🚨🆕Late night scoop w @ishansp Aakash has filed a claim of over Rs 1,400 crore on Byju's. Aakash likely gave a working capital loan to Byju's and is yet to receive about Rs 1,400 crore as of August 19, 2024. A small 🧵 @jarshadnk @SharmaShradha
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🚨🆕Scoop: A large deal in edtech after a long time Lightspeed is set to invest in PhysicsWallah. It will lead a $150 mn round, along with participation from PW's existing investors Lightspeed has previously invested in 3 edtechs including Byju's @jarshadnk @SharmaShradha
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Nikhil Patwardhan
2 years
Chandra meets Chandra🤝
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Chandra R. Srikanth
2 years
When Chandra met Chandra. At the TCS reception in Davos, an annual fixture on the sidelines of the #wef . With @TataCompanies chairman N Chandrasekaran
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🚨SoftBank has now netted close to $600mn from Paytm alone. We first reported last month that the Japanese investor would be selling Paytm and Zomato through open market in small tranches
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🚨🚨 SoftBank has sold another 2 percent in Paytm’s parent One97 Communications Ltd, its biggest listed investment in India, over the past month via open market operations, netting $300 million, in another instance of the Japanese investor monetising its bets in the country.
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👉Company has booked around Rs.944 crore in advertising and marketing expenses including the amount remitted to foreign jurisdiction 👉The company has not prepared its financial statements since financial year 2020-21 and has not got the accounts, audited which is mandatory.
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Nikhil Patwardhan
2 years
“Travel only if it is absolutely needed. Meetings that save travel cost and that can happen on Zoom, should happen on Zoom” Read more here by @Unibrowverse
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Nikhil Patwardhan
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🚨🆕 Scoop: A new rivalry is brewing between two SoftBank-backed fintechs Paytm, touted as the OG fintech, is eyeing a share in the payments routing business, currently dominated by another SoftBank-backed co Juspay @thecaptableco gets you all the exclusive details w @Tyagi0G
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💳 While India’s fintech narrative has largely revolved around digital lending, there’s a new fintech rivalry brewing between Paytm and Juspay for control of the country’s payment space. A thread.
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🚨🆕Scoop: SoftBank is looking to fully exit Zomato via open market transactions in coming months. SoftBank sold 1.17% stake yesterday and booked a profit of over Rs 100 cr. It now seeks a full exit. Earlier this week, Tiger Global also fully exited Zomato. @chandrarsrikant
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🚨🆕Who is Riju Ravindran? In today's @thecaptableco we write about a person known to none outside Byju's. Here's the curious case of the silent Byju's co-founder, who made millions in secondary share sales over the last year, without having an active role in the company.
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🚨 Are the much-hyped, much talked about, much advertised 10-minute deliveries failing? A 🧵🔽
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🚨Ola Cabs is now Ola consumer @bhash announces a bunch of things for Ola Cabs >Loyalty program called Ola Coin > Ola share (share cabs) is back >It's quick commerce/e-commerce foray @YourStoryCo
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Nikhil Patwardhan
2 years
If Byju's fails to complete the payment by September 23, the company will have to seek an extension from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for closing the transaction, according to lawyers Moneycontrol spoke with.
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Nikhil Patwardhan
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🚨🚨🆕 Scoop: Group of investors, led by Prosus, has moved the Bengaluru bench of the NCLT against Byju's and its founders for 'oppression and mismanagement.' Story on @thecaptableco soon @jarshadnk @CatizenKane @Mittermaniac
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Nikhil Patwardhan
1 year
🚨🚨From about 6,000 employees in April last year, Unacademy's team strength is down to under 3,000. More here-
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🚨🚨JUST IN: Amother round of layoffs at Unacademy. Edtech to reduce its headcount by 12%. @moneycontrolcom
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🚨India has seen no new🦄 for almost six months now! Is the unicorn frenzy dying? A 🧵👇
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So in about 30 days, if this rights issue actually happens as the PR says, Byju will buy new shares at a 99% discount, increase his stake, and thus have more control over the company, while "dissenting" shareholders will have less say Interesting twist this. 8/8
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💫 Over the last 3 wks I've been talking to a lot of people from Kota to understand the economics and emotions of the town Here's an attempt at putting together some on-ground anecdotes of India's $500 mn education hub Via @moneycontrolcom @chandrarsrikant
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This is important 👇 Some employees, who were just laid off, also said that while they were getting their salaries on time, provident fund (PF) contributions were not reflected in their PF accounts. What does this mean?🤔
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🚨🚨Byju's starts layoffs across departments amid standoff with lenders @Unibrowverse and I report
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🚨 Udaan raises $340 mn via equity and convertible notes Another late-stage startup raises funds through convertible notes @thecaptableco did a detailed story last month, where we called out this trend. @jarshadnk @SharmaShradha @Mittermaniac
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You first heard about the deal in November exclusively on @YourStoryCo @jarshadnk
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Kunal Manchanda
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Exclusive: Organic dairy startup Akshayakalpa Organic initiates its Series C round with $12 million led by A91 partners. ➡️ The round also saw the participation of existing investors Rainmatter Capital and BII. ➡️ The company has been valued at around $72 Mn post-allotment.
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🚨🚨 Newsbreak confirmed In November @thecaptableco had exclusively reported that PierSight had raised a $6 mn round led by Alpha Wave Global This also was a hint of a possible shift in Alpha Wave's strategies Read more about it- @SharmaShradha @jarshadnk
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🚨🆕Scoop: Another SoftBank-backed company becomes an IPO candidate. OfBusiness taps bankers for a $500 mn IPO next year. The recent listings of Ola Electric, FirstCry, GoDigit etc have encouraged the profitable company. @SharmaShradha @jarshadnk
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Nikhil Patwardhan
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. @Uber_India @UberIN_Support how can all Bangalore cabs have a problem with AC? Not a single driver agrees to switch on the AC. Why will anyone pay ₹2000 for a filthy cab without AC for a ~40 km journey? In Mumbai, this is never the case.
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Nikhil Patwardhan
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🚨🚨Scoop: PhysicsWallah in talks to raise at least $250 million at $3.3-bn valuation A huge potential markup for an Indian edtech firm at a time when the overall sector is struggling
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Nikhil Patwardhan
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💲💰Zepto's massive $665 million fundraise, valuing the company at $3.6 billion, stands out as an exception in the current funding landscape. It's the third largest round since 2022 and the largest this year (excluding Flipkart). More about the funding landscape on @thecaptableco
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🚨🚨🆕 Big story today from @thecaptableco 's @PratapVikramSin Over the past 18 months, Indian telcos have been hit hard by thefts of radio equipment from their telecom towers. An investigation revealed that this scourge has its origins in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.
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Nikhil Patwardhan
2 years
🚨🚨As 2022 draws to a close, we take a deeper look at what went wrong with the new poster boy of India's startup ecosystem From raising one of India’s largest funding rounds to sacking the most in one go, 2022 was a year of reckoning for the country's most-valued startup A 🧵👇
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Nikhil Patwardhan
1 year
👉FEMA searches revealed that the company has received foreign direct investment to the tune of Rs 28,000 crore 👉Company has also remitted Rs.9,754 crore to various foreign jurisdictions
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Nikhil Patwardhan
2 years
🚨Trigger warning In one case, a female candidate sent a suicide note to Relevel, a copy of which was seen by us. The candidate, eventually was refunded by the company
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Nikhil Patwardhan
10 months
Revenue: Less than $1mn Valuation: $700 mn 🤯 How did investors even value these businesses?
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Naina Sood
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🚨Jupiter FY23: Tiger Global-backed neobank widens net loss to Rs 327 crore while earning Rs 7 crore in operating revenue, compared to Rs 42 lakh last year.   Loss: Rs 327 cr (⬆️by 109%) Expenses: Rs 383 cr (⬆️by 113%) Valuation: Rs 5,800 cr What's up with neobanks? 👇
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Nikhil Patwardhan
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Brilliant strategy to plant a story with another publication to help manage any potential impact from a more in-depth report that might emerge. Kudos to the marketing team. 👏 #journalism
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Nikhil Patwardhan
2 years
🚨🚨He rejected an offer from Unacademy and now runs an edtech worth a billion dollars: Meet PhysicsWallah's Alakh Pandey With @Unibrowverse via @moneycontrolcom @chandrarsrikant
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Nikhil Patwardhan
2 years
🚨🚨 Brownie points for guessing this.. Something interesting coming up on @moneycontrolcom tomorrow @Unibrowverse @chandrarsrikant
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Nikhil Patwardhan
2 years
🚨🚨 PayU says it has terminated its $4.7 bn deal to buy BillDesk CCI had approved the deal last month. It was the largest acquisition of an Indian fintech @PriyankaIyer @moneycontrolcom @chandrarsrikant
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Nikhil Patwardhan
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🚨 🚨Confirmed @thecaptableco had first written about this in June @SharmaShradha @jarshadnk @CatizenKane @Mittermaniac
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Nikhil Patwardhan
3 months
🆕🚨Scoop: Verlinvest, ChrysCapital eye a stake in coffee chain Blue Tokai. Blue Tokai is negotiating the deal at a pre-money valuation of $160 million (Rs 1,300 crore) More in our story today @jarshadnk @SharmaShradha @CatizenKane @Mittermaniac
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Nikhil Patwardhan
2 years
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Bar and Bench
2 years
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Nikhil Patwardhan
1 year
First attempt to deliver news in Hindi Earlier in the day, @moneycontrolcom wrote how SoftBank might look to book profit by selling shares in Paytm and Zomato. Details 👇
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CNBC-AWAAZ
1 year
#AwaazMarkets | #Paytm और #Zomato में बड़े सौदे की खबर, मनीकंट्रोल को सूत्रों से हवाले से मिली जानकारी @patwardhannn @moneycontrolcom @_anujsinghal @AEHarshada @Paytm @zomato
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Nikhil Patwardhan
7 months
🚨🆕Data story with the data man @Tyagi0G SoftBank is set to lose at least $100 mn on Paytm, its largest investment in India The Japanese investor has been selling Paytm stock almost every day in the open market @jarshadnk @Mittermaniac @SharmaShradha @CatizenKane A 🧵👇
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Nikhil Patwardhan
2 years
🚨🚨A🧵🔽 of 6 main indicators suggesting that the Great Indian Startup Party is over. With @chandrarsrikant Via @moneycontrolcom #startups #unicorns #layoffs
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