{"id":1030009,"date":"2026-08-20T08:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030009"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:02:54","slug":"kkr-buys-stake-in-bookmyshow-for-40-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/kkr-buys-stake-in-bookmyshow-for-40-million\/","title":{"rendered":"KKR buys stake in BookMyShow for $40 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: KKR, a leading global investment firm, has agreed to acquire a minority stake in Indian entertainment and ticketing platform BookMyShow, KKR said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>According to sources, KKR invested about $40 million (\u20b9380 crore) in the company as a primary capital at a valuation of around $620 million (\u20b96,000 crore). <\/p>\n<p>The investment will support BookMyShow\u2019s next phase of growth, including the expansion of its live entertainment business and the development of its full-stack entertainment offering across India, KKR said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: KKR, a leading global investment firm, has agreed to acquire a minority stake in Indian entertainment and ticketing platform BookMyShow, KKR said on Wednesday. According to sources, KKR invested about $40 million (\u20b9380 crore) in the company as a primary capital at a valuation of around $620 million (\u20b96,000 crore). The investment will support BookMyShow\u2019s next phase of growth, including the expansion of its live entertainment business and the development of its full-stack entertainment offering across India, KKR said.<\/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-1030009","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\/1030009","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=1030009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030010,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030009\/revisions\/1030010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}