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The recent bull run is significant because it follows a long bearish period when public shareholders questioned the profitability of these companies. The improved financial performance of tech companies is now forcing other new entrants to focus on better financials before approaching the market.
Vanguard, which holds 166,185 shares of Ola or about 0.7 percent stake in the company, has pegged the fair value of its stake at $25,038,000, down from its acquisition cost of $51,748,000, the AMC's regulatory filings showed. This implies a valuation of $3.5 billion for Ola against its last private market valuation of $7.3 billion.
In July, investors participated in about 42 funding rounds and invested $523 million, slightly lower than $546 million in about 44 deals in June.
Continuing its spree of new launches, fintech giant PhonePe on Monday (July 24) announced the launch of ‘Income Tax Payment’ feature
Flipkart and PhonePe relationship is today looking like a Venn diagram where the investors and consumers meet, but the organisations are charting a distinct path for themselves as independent companies. This has probably made them compete with each other in financial services such as lending and insurance. And that is not incidental.