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TUESDAY, JUNE 09, 2015 8:07:53 Tuesday, June 9, 2015 18:30 IST COMMENTS{0} Share Tweet 2 Online food ordering startup Swiggy raises $16.5M from Norwest, others BY BHAWNA GUPTA Swiggy will use the funds for geographical expansion, brand building. Bangalorebased Bundl Technologies Pvt Ltd, which owns and operates online food ordering startup Swiggy.com, has raised Series B funding of $16.5 million (around Rs 102 crore) in a round led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP). SAIF Partners, Accel Partners, a unnamed global investment entity and Swiggy's existing investors participated in this round, as per a press statement. Swiggy will use the funds for expanding its geographical footprint and brand building. The startup was formed in 2014 by Sriharsha Majety, Nandan Reddy and Rahul Jaimini. Majety and Reddy are BITS Pilani alumnus while Jaimini is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur. In April, Swiggy raised seed capital of $2 million from SAIF Partners and Accel Partners. "We have seen a 10x growth in order numbers over the past few months and this investment will help us to expand exponentially as we intend to establish ourselves in several new cities by the end of the year. Combining technology with our own delivery fleet allows us to provide users a superior experience, which has been our key strength, and we will continue to build on it," said Majety. Swiggy offers online ordering service from restaurants in the Koramangala neighbourhood of HOME >> VENTURE CAPITAL >> 08 June 2015 sunil bhatnagar on Well done !! 01 June 2015 Vani Chawla on Nice article George! 29 May 2015 Anil Khandelwal on interesting read 27 May 2015 gg on Nice assessment. But I think under estimating the impact of crude on CPI, given that transport cost is a... RECENT COMMENTS Enter email for free Newsletter Subscribe 1 Like Share Techcircle Mobile Forum 2015 24th Jun, 2015, The Lalit, New Delhi VCCircle Bengaluru Investment Summit 2015 23rd Jul, 2015, Vivanta by Taj, Bengaluru VCCircle Financial Services Investment Summit 2015 26th Aug, 2015, Four Seasons Hotel, Mumbai UPCOMING EVENTS SUBSCRIBE | LOGIN DEALS CONSUMER FINANCE HEALTHCARE INFRASTRUCTURE MANUFACTURING TMT VCCTV MORE

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6/9/2015 Online food ordering startup Swiggy raises $16.5M from Norwest, others | VCCircle

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TUESDAY, JUNE 09, 2015 8:07:53

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Online food ordering startup Swiggy raises$16.5M from Norwest, othersBY  BHAWNA GUPTA

Swiggy will use the funds for geographical expansion, brand building.

Bangalorebased Bundl Technologies Pvt Ltd, which owns and operates online food ordering startup

Swiggy.com, has raised Series B funding of $16.5 million (around Rs 102 crore) in a round led by

Norwest Venture Partners (NVP).

SAIF Partners, Accel Partners, a unnamed global investment entity and Swiggy's existing investors

participated in this round, as per a press statement.

Swiggy will use the funds for expanding its geographical footprint and brand building.

The startup was formed in 2014 by Sriharsha Majety, Nandan Reddy and Rahul Jaimini. Majety and

Reddy are BITS Pilani alumnus while Jaimini is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur. In April, Swiggy

raised seed capital of $2 million from SAIF Partners and Accel Partners.

"We have seen a 10x growth in order numbers over the past few months and this investment will

help us to expand exponentially as we intend to establish ourselves in several new cities by the

end of the year. Combining technology with our own delivery fleet allows us to provide users a

superior experience, which has been our key strength, and we will continue to build on it," said

Majety.

Swiggy offers online ordering service from restaurants in the Koramangala neighbourhood of

HOME >> VENTURE CAPITAL >>

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01 June 2015 Vani Chawla  onNice article George!

29 May 2015 Anil Khandelwal  oninteresting read

27 May 2015 gg  onNice assessment. But I think underestimating the impact of crude on CPI, giventhat transport cost is a...

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BUNDL TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD.

:HEAD OFFICE Bengaluru

:YEAR FOUNDED 2013

:WEBSITE www.swiggy.in:MANAGEMENT

NORWEST VENTURE PARTNERS

Bangalore and manages delivery using a fleet of personnel equipped with smartphones.

It recently started operations in Gurgaon and Hyderabad where it has partnered with over 100

restaurants. Swiggy has also tied up with bangalorebased ‘cloud kitchens’ Eatongo and Brekkie

and is in the process of signing up with few more. Cloud kitchens are online breakfast and brunch

units that do not have a physical restaurant. They offer food though their websites/apps and also

deliver to their customers.

The total food delivery market in India is estimated to be $6 billion and continues to expand at a

rapid clip. "Swiggy’s delivery infrastructure solves a major need in the market by enabling

restaurants to concentrate on their core business and scale up their delivery revenues.

Simultaneously, the product’s ease of use and the convenience it provides to consumers, has

resulted in strong repeat rates and an increased customer base," said Sumer Juneja, principal at

NVP India.

The online food ordering and delivery space has turned out to be a new hot space for investors, as

per data from VCCEdge, the data research platform of VCCircle. Swiggy, competes with

Foodpanda, TinyOwl, delyver.com and others for a slice of what is becoming a fairly crowded

space. Others like Zomato have also entered the food ordering business but is not involved with

delivery itself and just provides an ordering platform.

Mumbaibased TinyOwl, which offers a locationbased mobile app for ordering food, had raised $15

million (Rs 93 crore) in Series B round of funding led by Matrix Partners in February this year.

Bangalorebased mobileonly food ordering startup TapCibo Online Solutions Pvt Ltd, which

operated under the brand TapCibo, rebranded itself as Dazo and raised an undisclosed amount in

seed funding from a bunch of entrepreneurs including founders of CommonFloor and TaxiForSure

last month.

The leader in this space today is Foodpanda.com, a Rocket Internetbacked global, multilocation

online food ordering marketplace. Foodpanda had raised $100 million funding led by global

financial services giant Goldman Sachs early this month. It had also acquired two key competitors

in the country Just East India and TastyKhana.

Before these ventures sprouted up, restaurants depended on their own delivery personnel for

pushing sales over telephone orders. Indeed, vast chunk of the market is still dominated by such a

system.

NVP has been an active investor in India with investments across companies and sectors. This is

the second known investment by NVP in India this year, according to VCCEdge data.

In April, it participated in Sulekha.com's Series C round of funding which was led by Singapore’s

sovereign wealth fund GIC. It has also invested in companies such as Qubole Inc, Acidaes

Solutions Pvt Ltd that runs CRMnext, Cholamandalam Finance, ING Vysya Bank, IndusInd Bank,

Asian Genco, Fashionandyou, Komli Media and Yatra.com.

Tags: Bundl Technologies Pvt. Ltd. , Swiggy.com , Norwest Venture Partners

(Swiggy)

Bundl Technologies Pvt. Ltd. owns and operates shipping platform for online sellers. It also offers food ordering anddelivery services. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Bengaluru,...  

IN NEWSOnline food ordering startup Swiggy raises $2M from SAIF & Accel Partners

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:HEAD OFFICE Palo Alto

:YEAR FOUNDED 1961

:WEBSITE www.nvp.com/:MANAGEMENT

Norwest Venture Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm with approximately $5 billion assets undermanagement. It provides seed, early, expansion, growth and late stage capital to listed...  

IN NEWSNorwest Venture Partners promotes Sumer Juneja as principalAnalytics co Manthan raises more money from existing investors Fidelity & NorwestPepperfry raises $16M from Bertelsmann, NVPNorwest Venture Partners’ India play: An exit a year; tech portfolio to go globalNorwest Venture Partners raises $1.2B for its latest fund

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