{"id":996718,"date":"2026-03-06T12:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996718"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:12:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:42:46","slug":"phonepe-targets-ipo-valuation-lower-than-at-its-last-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/06\/phonepe-targets-ipo-valuation-lower-than-at-its-last-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"PhonePe targets IPO valuation lower than at its last funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PhonePe Ltd., India&#8217;s largest payments app controlled by Walmart Inc., is aiming for a valuation of $9 billion-10.5 billion in an IPO in 2026, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>That kind of valuation pegs the size of the PhonePe IPO at $900 million to $1.05 billion, but that&#8217;s still smaller that the $12-billion valuation that the company enjoyed when it raised $100 million in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhonePe Ltd., India&#8217;s largest payments app controlled by Walmart Inc., is aiming for a valuation of $9 billion-10.5 billion in an IPO in 2026, according to sources. That kind of valuation pegs the size of the PhonePe IPO at $900 million to $1.05 billion, but that&#8217;s still smaller that the $12-billion valuation that the company enjoyed when it raised $100 million in 2023.<\/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":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996718","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=996718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}