{"id":1000212,"date":"2026-03-31T09:47:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000212"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:55:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:25:59","slug":"quick-commerce-expands-beyond-groceries-with-vc-funding-but-scale-questions-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/31\/quick-commerce-expands-beyond-groceries-with-vc-funding-but-scale-questions-persist\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick commerce expands beyond groceries with VC funding, but scale questions persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick commerce in India is not just about grocery delivery anymore. <\/p>\n<p>Food, construction materials, medicines, baby care and house help are among a multitude of products and services that are now delivered within 10 minutes to an hour, with several startups emerging over the past year to address the growing consumer demand for immediate fulfilment. While the segment has attracted significant investor interest, industry experts say questions remain about how some of these startups that specialise in niche areas will scale and make money. Startups in the quick commerce segment raised $586 million across verticals between January 2025 and March 2026, according to Tracxn data. Companies that have raised funds or are in discussions with investors include FirstClub, Swish, Knot, Dazzl, Plazza, Ozi and HomeRun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick commerce in India is not just about grocery delivery anymore. Food, construction materials, medicines, baby care and house help are among a multitude of products and services that are now delivered within 10 minutes to an hour, with several startups emerging over the past year to address the growing consumer demand for immediate fulfilment. While the segment has attracted significant investor interest, industry experts say questions remain about how some of these startups that specialise in niche areas will scale and make money. Startups in the quick commerce segment raised $586 million across verticals between January 2025 and March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}