{"id":1001706,"date":"2026-04-08T11:32:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001706"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:02:31","slug":"infosys-early-bet-on-whoop-nears-100-million-as-wearable-firm-eyes-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/08\/infosys-early-bet-on-whoop-nears-100-million-as-wearable-firm-eyes-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Infosys\u2019 early bet on Whoop nears $100 million as wearable firm eyes IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: One of Infosys\u2019 earliest startup bets, Whoop, is now estimated to be worth nearly $100 million, underscoring a standout investment from its $500 million innovation fund. Infosys is learnt to hold about a 1% stake in the wearables firm.<\/p>\n<p>Whoop was valued at $10.1 billion in April following a $575 million funding round and is targeting an IPO within the next 18\u201324 months. The company has over 2.5 million members globally. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: One of Infosys\u2019 earliest startup bets, Whoop, is now estimated to be worth nearly $100 million, underscoring a standout investment from its $500 million innovation fund. Infosys is learnt to hold about a 1% stake in the wearables firm. Whoop was valued at $10.1 billion in April following a $575 million funding round and is targeting an IPO within the next 18\u201324 months. The company has over 2.5 million members globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001706","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}