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Temasek Holdings and Falcon Edge have led Lenskart’s $220-million funding round a mix of primary and secondary capital. The eyewear retailers will use the funds for overseas expansion into Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
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Lenskart is also warming up to the idea of listing on the Indian bourses over the next two-three years, CEO Peyush Bansal says.
Bengaluru:Lenskart has closed a $220-million funding round led by Singapore s sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings and Falcon Edge Capital, founder and chief executive officer Peyush Bansal told ET.
The omnichannel eyewear retailer has now raised a total of $315 million in this round with private equity major
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By Syndicated Content
Jun 27, 2021 | 11:26 PM
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine digital and financial services firm Voyager Innovations has raised $167 million for its expansion programme, including a venture into digital banking, its listed and largest shareholder said on Monday.
Shareholders PLDT Inc, private equity firm KKR & Co Inc and Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd participated in the funding round, PLDT said in a disclosure. Voyager, which serves millions of Filipinos through its e-wallet, digital payments and remittance units, welcomed a unit of the World Bank’s International Finance Corp as a new investor.
(Reporting by Neil Jerome Morales; Editing by Martin Petty)