{"id":945230,"date":"2025-07-10T07:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T02:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=945230"},"modified":"2025-07-10T08:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T02:42:28","slug":"zepto-set-to-raise-500-mn-at-40-higher-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/10\/zepto-set-to-raise-500-mn-at-40-higher-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Zepto set to  raise $500 mn at 40% higher valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick commerce major Zepto is in advanced stages of raising $450-500 million in fresh primary capital from existing investors General Catalyst and Avenir Growth, according to sources familiar with the matter. The startup is expected to command a valuation of $6-7 billion in the fresh round, a 40% mark-up from its previous $5-billion valuation. <\/p>\n<p>General Catalyst and Avenir Growth are expected to contribute the bulk of the fundraise, with other existing investors may participate on a pro-rata basis. The round is anticipated to close within a month, sources indicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick commerce major Zepto is in advanced stages of raising $450-500 million in fresh primary capital from existing investors General Catalyst and Avenir Growth, according to sources familiar with the matter. The startup is expected to command a valuation of $6-7 billion in the fresh round, a 40% mark-up from its previous $5-billion valuation. General Catalyst and Avenir Growth are expected to contribute the bulk of the fundraise, with other existing investors may participate on a pro-rata basis. The round is anticipated to close within a month, sources indicated.<\/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-945230","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\/945230","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=945230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}