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Welcome to a new edition of ETtech Unwrapped – our weekend newsletter packed with the most important stories from this week. Let’s take a look.
Welcome to a new edition of ETtech Unwrapped – our weekend newsletter packed with the most important stories from this week. Let’s take a quick look.
Welcome to a brand new edition of our weekend newsletter – ETtech Unwrapped. This week, it was raining IPOs on Dalal Street, with new-age companies Ola Electric and FirstCry announcing their public issues.
Welcome to a brand new edition of ETtech Unwrapped – our weekend newsletter packed with the most important stories from the week, including the top developments from the union budget. Let's take a look.
Welcome to a brand new edition of ETtech Unwrapped – our weekend newsletter packed with the most important stories we covered this week. Here’s a quick recap.
ETtech Unwrapped is packed with the most important stories that we covered this week. Here’s a quick recap.
Welcome to a brand new edition of ETtech Unwrapped – our weekend newsletter packed with the most important stories that we covered this week. Here’s a recap if you missed them.
Welcome to another edition of ETtech Unwrapped – our weekend newsletter. It has been a packed week for ecommerce and quick commerce news. The previous weekend began with Zepto scooping up $665 million in funding, at more than double its last valuation in 2023, which is a pivotal moment for the sector.
Stay tuned to know how the latest capital infusion into Zepto impacts the workings of this fledgling sector.
Welcome to a brand new edition of ETtech Unwrapped – our weekend newsletter. The week was packed with important stories broken by our reporters. Here’s a recap if you missed them.
In a week charged with political buzz, the BJP government came back to power after a stormy election, but without a full majority that left it dependent on the whims of its alliance partners. Unnerved, the markets went into a tailspin on counting day, with both benchmark indices, Sensex and Nifty50, dropping 8% intraday. They recovered a day later as hopes of a stable government revived.
Welcome to a brand new edition of ETtech Unwrapped – our weekend newsletter. The week was packed with important stories broken by our reporters. Here’s a recap if you missed these stories.
Welcome to another edition of ETtech Unwrapped – our weekend newsletter. This is Pranav Mukul in New Delhi. This week we’ve wrapped up another compelling quarterly earnings season for listed new-age companies from Zomato and Delhivery to Paytm and PB Fintech.
Quick commerce, the buzziest sector in the consumer internet industry, is undergoing a significant transformation. We, at ETtech, have been tracking the sector super closely and bringing the biggest and most impactful stories to you, first.
This is Pratik Bhakta in Bengaluru. Insurance startup Digit, by valuing itself at a discount of 25% to its last known private market valuation, seems to have stuck its neck out. And it’s a move that’s certainly got everyone talking.
Hi, this is Pratik Bhakta in Bengaluru. It’s been a busy news week for us here at ETtech covering some of the most important stories in the fintech space. We had a string of big exclusives, wrapping it up here just in case you missed reading them.
Food and grocery delivery company Swiggy on Friday confidentially filed its draft documents for an initial public offering (IPO) with stock market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), sources told us.
It’s no surprise, given quick-commerce platforms are betting big on advertising revenues to contribute substantially to their toplines. HSBC Global Research expects Blinkit’s ad revenues to grow fourfold from $60 million in FY24 to $240 million in FY27.
While the regulatory action on Paytm Payments Bank managed to bring the entire business to a standstill, its largest business partner Paytm moved on to build new relationships with other lenders. Now its CEO who had joined the bank hardly a year back is set to leave by June 26.
Multiple people in the know have told me that the insurance regulator is not comfortable with the typical corporate structures of startups, and may not be in favour of granting them an insurance manufacturing licence. The regulator wants these firms to get rid of any holding company structures, onboard investors directly into the applying entity, and have founders bring in sufficient amount of net worth before applying.
While VCs haven’t really been busy closing deals over the past year or so, their performance has surely come under increased scrutiny as limited partners (LPs) or sponsors of funds ask for cash returns. The Indian venture market, which is now 15 years old, has been exit-starved and a prolonged downturn has exposed the state of the industry very clearly.
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms have decided to halt one of their most attractive products from March 31 following increased regulatory scrutiny by the Reserve Bank of India, we reported on March 22.
Fintech industry faces regulatory challenges, affecting players like Paytm Payments Bank. Market dynamics shift with increasing regulatory scrutiny. Fintech startups adapt to changing landscape and consumer-focused regulations, emphasizing compliance and strategic recalibration.
At the peak of the funding winter last year, an investor told me that the pace of investment deals will continue to be slow, but the nature of companies grabbing new cash will be different. The next obvious question was: what kind of companies? Consumer brands, the person said.
E-commerce industry executives say that the key to making a subscription programme work is always a large bouquet of offerings. The pricing can be made on the higher side and margins made higher only when the offerings become compelling enough.
