{"id":979793,"date":"2025-12-11T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979793"},"modified":"2025-12-11T12:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:30:47","slug":"meesho-founders-stake-worth-1-4billion-after-53-listing-day-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/11\/meesho-founders-stake-worth-1-4billion-after-53-listing-day-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"Meesho founders&#8217; stake worth $1.4billion after 53% listing day gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU\/MUMBAI: Startup Meesho&#8217;s two founders together turned billionaires on Wednesday as the stock jumped over 50% on listing on the bourses following its strong IPO that closed on Dec 5. The strong listing gains also brought in riches for all of Meesho&#8217;s early backers with their holdings now worth nearly $6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the founders &#8211; Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Kumar &#8211; and the early backers including global private equity majors like Elevation Capital, Peak XV Partners and Y Combinator made millions from the IPO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU\/MUMBAI: Startup Meesho&#8217;s two founders together turned billionaires on Wednesday as the stock jumped over 50% on listing on the bourses following its strong IPO that closed on Dec 5. The strong listing gains also brought in riches for all of Meesho&#8217;s early backers with their holdings now worth nearly $6 billion. In addition, the founders &#8211; Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Kumar &#8211; and the early backers including global private equity majors like Elevation Capital, Peak XV Partners and Y Combinator made millions from the IPO.<\/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-979793","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\/979793","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=979793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}