Two Stanford dropouts of their late teenagers, who’ve beforehand collaborated on a variety of tasks together with a ride-hailing commute app for college youngsters, stated on Sunday they’ve raised $60 million to disrupt India’s overcrowded and highly-competitive grocery supply market.
Glade Brook Capital led the six-month-old app Zepto’s first institutional financing spherical, the startup’s founder and chief govt Aadit Palicha instructed TechCrunch in an interview. Nexus and Y Combinator in addition to angel buyers Lachy Groom, Neeraj Arora, and Manik Gupta participated within the spherical, which in accordance with two folks accustomed to the matter, values Zepto between $200 million and $300 million.
Zepto, which has largely operated in stealth mode till as we speak, has been the speak of the city for the previous 4 months. The startup, whose title playfully makes use of a mathematical time period to explain the enterprise, gives a 10-minute grocery supply service. It typically delivers inside six to eight minutes, many buyers who haven’t backed Zepto stated.
To realize this feat, Zepto has arrange darkish shops throughout the cities the place it operates (Mumbai, Bangalore, and as of this week, Delhi.) 19-year-old Palicha stated these darkish shops, which the startup has arrange and owns, are designed and optimized for quick deliveries. (Zepto’s strategy, for which Palicha stated he checked out different markets and spoke with the operators working these corporations, is totally different from many Indian startups that depend on common grocery shops for stock.)
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