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Jan 30, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
Profit number of bootstrapped companies (FY22)

▪️Zoho [SaaS]: Rs 2749 Cr
▪️Zerodha [fintech]: Rs 2094 Cr
▪️GamesKraft [gaming]: Rs 937 Cr
▪️Gameberry [gaming]: Rs 93 Cr
▪️Wingify [SaaS]: Rs 58 Cr
▪️Noise [D2C]: Rs 36 Cr Zoho’s profit crosses Rs 2,700 Cr during FY22
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Jan 25, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
Around 95 #edtech startups raised funds in 2020

Byju’s => $1.14 Bn [total fund raised in 2020]
Unacademy => $346 Mn
Vedantu => $144 Mn
Eruditus => $113 Mn
Toppr => $52 Mn
Cuemath =>$43 Mn
Springboard =>$31 Mn
LEAD School =>$28 Mn
Classplus => $21.5 Mn
Interviewbit => $20 Mn Doubtnut =>$15 Mn
Lido Learning =>$8.8 Mn
Testbook =>$8.4 Mn
Flinto =>$7.2 Mn
upGrad =>$6.7 Mn
CodingNinjas =>$5.2 Mn
Eduvanz =>$5 Mn
Playshifu =>$4.4 Mn
Eupheus Learning =>$4.3 Mn
Camp K12 =>$4 Mn
Practically =>$4 Mn
Sunstone Eduversity =>$3.28 Mn
Teachmint => $3.5 Mn
Oct 3, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
ESOP allotments and buybacks in Indian #startups in 2020

=> Pine Labs allotted Rs 102 Cr worth #ESOP to its CTO, CFO and a dozen others [Sep]

=> Zetwerk allotted Rs 4.77 Cr worth ESOP to founders and employees [Sep]

=> Zerodha completed ESOP buyback worth Rs 60-65 Cr [Sep] => Vy Capital bought Urban Company’s Rs 37.5 Cr worth ESOP [Aug]

=> Zomato allotted ESOP worth Rs 385 Cr [Aug]

=> Byju’s allotted ESOP worth Rs 53 lakhs to 4 employees [July]

=> Oyo announced Rs 130 Cr worth ESOP for furloughed employees [June]
Sep 17, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
Over 50 2nd/3rd-time founders raised funds for their new startup in 2020

Lalit Mangal - Airmeet
Paavan Nanda - WinZo
Jitendra Gupta - Jupiter
Kunal Shah - Cred
Ashish Kashyap - INDmoney
Amit Lakhotia - Park+
Saurabh Saxena - Uable

[List includes startups founded betwn 2017-20] Sachin Bhatia and Atit Jain - BulBul
Manish Shara - Onecode
Awais Ahmed - Pixxel
Anshuman Bapna - Terra.do
Rushabh Sheth - Docsumo
Pankaj Chaddah - Mindhouse
Deepak Dhar - Reputes
Sumeet Kapur - Wellcure
Satyen Kothari - CubeWealth
Manish Tewari - PiggyRide
Jul 21, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
ESOPs expansion, allotment and buyback in startups & unicorns in 2020 (till date)

▪️BharatPe created ESOP pool worth ~ Rs 142 Cr in Jan

▪️Lenskart expanded ESOP pool to Rs 216 Cr in Feb

▪️Ola expanded ESOP pool by adding Rs 326 Cr in Feb

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A thread ⤵️ ▪️Vogo increased ESOPs pool for staff and directors in Feb

▪️Bounce increased its ESOP pool to Rs 127 Cr in Feb

▪️Meesho’s investor Naspers bought ESOP worth $1 Mn in Feb

▪️CarDekho announced ESOP scheme worth $3.5 Mn in Feb; allotted worth Rs 3.51 Cr to 43 staff in March
Jun 9, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Google Pay recorded 541 million UPI transactions in May followed by PhonePe with 444 million and Paytm at 124 million.
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@entrackr Image UPI P2M transactions in May 2020

▪️PhonePe:193 Mn
▪️Google Pay:182 Mn
▪️Paytm: 74 Mn
▪️Amazon Pay: 17 Mn
▪️BHIM: 2.8 Mn
Jun 8, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
CRED insights on category wise credit card spending trend in three major cities - Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi - during lockdown.
#essentialservices #medical #grocery
#subscription #spending Image Credit card spending dropped by 10% when the lockdown was announced in March and went down even further by 51% April-onwards. Subscription spends in Delhi saw a rise of 18%, Bangalore by 11% and Mumbai by 8%.
Jun 5, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Layoffs in startups/unicorns during covid19 lockdown

▪️Ola:1400 [35% of workforce on payroll]
▪️Swiggy: 1100 (13%])
▪️Zomato: 520 (13%)
▪️ShareChat: 101 (25%)
▪️MakeMyTrip: 350(10%)
▪️BookMyShow: 270 (18%, including furloughs)
#layoffs #startup #lockdown Image ▪️CarDekho: 700 (10-15%, including contractual workers)
▪️Livspace: 450 (15%)
▪️Uber India: 600 (25%)
▪️Curefit: 800-1000 (20%)
▪️Shadowfax: 50 (6%)
▪️Lendingkart: 200 (30%)
▪️Meesho: 200+ (30%)
▪️WeWork India: 500 (20%)
Jun 4, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
Tech giants eye Indian telecom companies

▪️Facebook => Jio (9.9%)
▪️Google=>Vodafone Idea (5% in talks)
▪️Amazon => Bharti Airtel (5% in talks) Soon after the media reports, Bharti Airtel's stock price jumped 4.3%
Jun 3, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
ICYMI: "Most Indian businessmen tend to remain SMEs because the scaling mechanics are not taught. Our religion didn’t scale because it wasn’t standardised. If you look at Christianity and Islam it’s fairly standardised, 10 rules 1 God 1 book..boom, it spreads," says Kunal Shah ⤵️ Image "If you look at concept like a Hinduism, there are millions of gods, probably hundreds of books and I don't know which 10 rules to follow and therefore it's very hard to scale and a lot of our businesses are always like that....
Apr 22, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Top 10 downloaded apps in 2019 in India: App Annie report

bit.ly/2XTl9l9 Image Top 10 #fintech apps by MAU in 2019 Image
Apr 1, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Relief fund/Initiative/commitments from startups, founders and VCs to combat #Covid19 crisis

▪️Swiggy launches - Swiggy Hunger Savior Covid Relief fund

▪️Urban Company rolls out relief fund for gig workers

▪️Ola launches Drive the Driver Fund+ offers 500 cabs to Karnataka govt Image ▪️Zomato launches Feed the Daily Wager fund to help daily wage workers.

▪️Paytm commits Rs 5 crore for Indian innovators developing medical solutions related to Covid-19.

▪️Oyo to enable isolation facilities for COVID19 patients
Mar 26, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
Relief #package announced by Finance Ministry

⏺️ Health workers (corona warriors) to get medical insurance of Rs 50 lakh

⏺️ Rs 1.7 lakh crore Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Yojna

⏺️ 80 Cr population to get additional 5kg rice or wheat/month +1 kg daal

⏺️ Wage increase in MNREGA ⏺️ 8.69 Cr farmers to get benefit through Direct cash transfers. Rs 2000 will be transferred in1st week of April

⏺️ Women of Jan Dhan account holders to ex-gratia of Rs 500/month for 3 months

⏺️ ex-gratia of Rs 1,000 to 3 crore poor senior citizen, poor widows and poor disabled