{"id":939445,"date":"2025-06-19T06:29:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=939445"},"modified":"2025-06-19T06:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T01:22:56","slug":"from-paytm-to-makemytrip-how-indian-startups-are-unwinding-chinese-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/19\/from-paytm-to-makemytrip-how-indian-startups-are-unwinding-chinese-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"From Paytm to MakeMyTrip: How Indian startups are unwinding Chinese ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After coming under fire from rivals for allegedly being a China-controlled company, MakeMyTrip is set to join a group of companies that have lowered the stake of their Chinese investors. <\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s largest online travel platform plans to raise $3 billion through a mix of debt and equity to buy back shares from Trip.com Group. Following this, Trip.com\u2019s stake in MakeMyTrip will drop to 19.99% from 45.34% currently, and its board representation will shrink to two directors from five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After coming under fire from rivals for allegedly being a China-controlled company, MakeMyTrip is set to join a group of companies that have lowered the stake of their Chinese investors. India\u2019s largest online travel platform plans to raise $3 billion through a mix of debt and equity to buy back shares from Trip.com Group. Following this, Trip.com\u2019s stake in MakeMyTrip will drop to 19.99% from 45.34% currently, and its board representation will shrink to two directors from five.<\/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-939445","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\/939445","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=939445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}