Xpressbees, an Indian logistics agency that functions with many e-commerce companies in the state, has raised $80 million in a new funding round led by Ontario Teachers’ late-stage enterprise progress fund amid a surge in the country’s online buying exercise.
The Canadian pension fund has obtained a stake in the Pune-headquartered startup at about $1.4 billion valuation, the similar worth at which the startup lifted a Sequence F tranche previously. With the most up-to-date investment decision spherical, Xpressbees’ cumulative funding has reached close to $680 million. It did not share a name for the spherical, and also didn’t disclose how a lot of the new raise arrived through secondary transactions.
Xpressbees, which also counts Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah, TPG, Alibaba and Blackstone amid backers, operates with extra than 1,000 purchasers — which include fiscal and e-commerce providers huge Paytm, social commerce startup Meesho, eyewear vendor Lenskart, mobile phone maker Xiaomi and on line pharmacy NetMeds — to deliver their products and solutions across the region.
It has existence in more than 2,000 towns and cities and it procedures much more than 2.5 million orders a day. The loss-earning startup posted a income of about $300 million in the fiscal 12 months ending March. The arrival of the Canadian pension fund is indicative that Xpressbees is readying itself for an initial general public featuring inside of a 12 months to two.
Xpressbees begun its journey inside of FirstCry, an e-commerce for newborn items, in 2012. But in 2015, it turned an unbiased organization with Amitava Saha, co-founder and main functioning officer of FirstCry, shifting out of FirstCry to develop into main government of Xpressbees. Supam Maheshwari, who co-launched FirstCry and serves as its chief government, is the other co-founder of Xpressbees.
“We are fired up about the industry possibility