{"id":1001115,"date":"2026-04-04T08:55:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001115"},"modified":"2026-04-04T10:12:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:42:33","slug":"fidelity-marks-down-conversational-ai-platform-gupshups-valuation-by-80-to-278-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/fidelity-marks-down-conversational-ai-platform-gupshups-valuation-by-80-to-278-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Fidelity marks down conversational AI platform Gupshup&#8217;s valuation by 80% to $278 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fund run by financial services giant Fidelity Investments has slashed the valuation of conversational messaging software provider Gupshup by over 80% from its initial investment, as of January 31, 2026, according to a regulatory disclosure. The fund now pegs Gupshup\u2019s valuation at $278 million \u2014 a steep markdown for the homegrown software startup. <\/p>\n<p>Gupshup was valued at $1.4 billion when Fidelity first invested in the company back in 2021 through a secondary transaction. The asset manager has been steadily revising the value of its holding and had marked it down to $697 million as of July 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fund run by financial services giant Fidelity Investments has slashed the valuation of conversational messaging software provider Gupshup by over 80% from its initial investment, as of January 31, 2026, according to a regulatory disclosure. The fund now pegs Gupshup\u2019s valuation at $278 million \u2014 a steep markdown for the homegrown software startup. Gupshup was valued at $1.4 billion when Fidelity first invested in the company back in 2021 through a secondary transaction. The asset manager has been steadily revising the value of its holding and had marked it down to $697 million as of July 2023.<\/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-1001115","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\/1001115","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=1001115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}