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Flipkart’s $5.5 bn digital payments arm PhonePe raises $700 mn in funding

PTI
Updated: December 3rd, 2020, 17:04 IST
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New Delhi:  E-commerce major Flipkart Thursday announced a ‘partial spin-off’ of PhonePe as the digital payment firm raises USD 700 million in funding – valuing it at USD 5.5 billion.

In this financing round, PhonePe is raising USD 700 million (about Rs 5,172 crore) in primary capital at a post-money valuation of USD 5.5 billion from existing Flipkart investors, led by Walmart, a statement said.

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Flipkart will remain PhonePe’s majority shareholder, and the two businesses will retain their close collaboration, it added.

“Recognising the momentum that has been achieved, as well as PhonePe’s significant growth potential, Flipkart’s Board determined that this was the right time to partially spin-off PhonePe so it can access dedicated capital to fund its long-term ambitions over the next three to four years,” the statement said.

PhonePe has crossed the 250 million registered user milestone, with over 100 million monthly active users (MAU) generating nearly one billion digital payment transactions in October 2020.

“Flipkart and PhonePe are already among the more prominent Indian digital platforms with over 250 million users each. This partial spin-off gives PhonePe access to dedicated long-term capital to pursue our vision of providing financial inclusion to a billion Indians,” PhonePe founder and CEO Sameer Nigam said.

Kalyan Krishnamurthy, CEO of Flipkart Group, said the move will “help PhonePe maximise its potential as it moves to the next phase of its development, and it will also maximise value creation for Flipkart and our shareholders”.

PhonePe was founded by ex-Flipkart executives Nigam, Rahul Chari and Burzin Engineer, and was acquired by Flipkart in 2016. In 2018, Flipkart was acquired by Walmart, and PhonePe was part of the transaction as well.

Walmart had announced a 1.3 per cent increase in net sales in its international business at USD 29.6 billion in the third quarter ended October 31. It attributed this growth to various factors including strong results of Flipkart and PhonePe that saw “all-time high” monthly active users.

During the earnings call last month, Walmart President, CEO and Director C Douglas McMillon noted the strong performance of its India units. “In India, Flipkart and PhonePe had strong results for the quarter. The number of monthly active customers for these platforms is at an all-time high,” he had said.

Discussions for hiving off PhonePe – which competes with players like Paytm, Google Pay, Amazon Pay and others – have been going on for almost a year.

In December last year, PhonePe had filed documents with the Corporate Affairs Ministry related to raising about Rs 585.66 crore from PhonePe Pvt Ltd, Singapore, (formerly Flipkart Payments Pvt Ltd). It had received another fund infusion of about Rs 698 crore in July last year.

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