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Zomato IPO: India food delivery ‘unicorn’ opens $1.2bn offering

by Eucharia Egwuma
July 14, 2021
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Zomato IPO: India food delivery ‘unicorn’ opens $1.2bn offering
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Shares in food delivery app Zomato, one of India’s biggest tech start-ups, have gone on sale in its $1.2bn (£870m) initial public offering (IPO).

It raised $562.3m from institutional investors, as they bid for 35 times more shares than allotted to them ahead of the much-anticipated offering.

Analysts though are wary of the loss-making company’s high valuation.

Zomato, backed by Jack Ma’s Ant Group, is the first of India’s major digital start-ups to IPO, with more expected.

India has been producing unicorns, private firms valued at over $1bn (74.5 billion rupees), at a rapid pace.

Several of them, including mobile payments app Paytm and online beauty retailer Nykaa, are expected to make their stock market debuts in the coming months.

Zomato’s three-day offering, with shares priced between 72 to 76 rupees per share, is expected to take the company’s valuation to $9bn. Trading in the stock is likely to begin on 27 July.

Investors had subscribed to about 29% of the shares on offer by noon local time on Wednesday, according to stock exchange data. Demand from retail investors has been strong, the data showed.

Ahead of Wednesday’s opening, Zomato had already allotted shares worth $562.3m to about 200 foreign and domestic investors. The list included major international private equity firms such as Tiger Global and BlackRock, and Indian investment funds from some of the country’s biggest banks such as State Bank of India, Kotak, ICICI and HDFC.

The IPO comes at a time when Indian and global markets are at or near record highs. But India’s economy has been faltering, with sluggish growth and rising unemployment, raising analysts’ fears of a stock market bubble that could be bolstered further by highly valued tech companies going public.

Launched in 2008, Zomato offers food delivery and curates restaurant reviews. It is available in 525 cities and caters to some 6.8 million customers every month – and has become a household name in India.

The pandemic and intermittent lockdowns that have been imposed across India to contain it have hit Zomato’s business. Its revenue for the financial year ending March 2021 was down by 23.4% from the previous year.

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