{"id":1025193,"date":"2026-07-31T08:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025193"},"modified":"2026-07-31T09:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:46:14","slug":"zepto-pauses-ipo-seeks-rs-1000-crore-pre-ipo-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/31\/zepto-pauses-ipo-seeks-rs-1000-crore-pre-ipo-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Zepto pauses IPO, seeks Rs 1,000 crore pre-IPO funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick commerce firm Zepto has put its initial public offering (IPO) plans on hold after domestic institutional investors balked at the valuation it was seeking, prompting the company to instead pursue a pre-IPO fund raise of more than Rs 1,000 crore ($105 million) from existing investors, sources said. <\/p>\n<p>The company is in discussions to raise the capital at a valuation of around $4-4.2 billion, well above the $2.5-3 billion that domestic mutual funds were willing to ascribe to the company for the IPO, sources said. Zepto was last valued at about $7 billion in a private funding round around nine months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick commerce firm Zepto has put its initial public offering (IPO) plans on hold after domestic institutional investors balked at the valuation it was seeking, prompting the company to instead pursue a pre-IPO fund raise of more than Rs 1,000 crore ($105 million) from existing investors, sources said. The company is in discussions to raise the capital at a valuation of around $4-4.2 billion, well above the $2.5-3 billion that domestic mutual funds were willing to ascribe to the company for the IPO, sources said. Zepto was last valued at about $7 billion in a private funding round around nine [&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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025193","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=1025193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025217,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025193\/revisions\/1025217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}