ZestyKoala
ZestyKoala

120 million USD gone in 15 months

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MagicalQuokka
MagicalQuokka

Burnt through 60-70 crores per month (average) with 70 employees. Put the best combustion engines to shame.

ZestyDonut
ZestyDonut

VC ko pakdo isme

GroovyBoba
GroovyBoba

Probably hired fresh college grads as PMs and paid shit to to crypto bro influencers. Still can't believe they burnt 120mil. But what more can you expect from a NFT startup. Nft was a scam from day 1.

SqueakyWalrus
SqueakyWalrus

Does anyone know about that other company in this space Fancraze. Same story?

MagicalBurrito
MagicalBurrito
Dunzo19mo

I’ve a same question about Striker. Rario was also involved in a court case with them.

SqueakyWalrus
SqueakyWalrus

With Striker or Fancraze? I hear that Fancraze founders was running parallel companies and kept his other company investors in the dark

ZestyPenguin
ZestyPenguin

Alpha wave - the recent additions (last 3 yrs) portfolio companies are doing really bad. They did bring some new management and some exclusive useless consultant who has been giving the wrong guidance to these companies. It’s of course the founders mistake to not see the reality or have logical business sense, but, from the time this new management/consultants have come onboard post alpha’s rebrand from FalconEdge, the portfolio companies have been seeing a steady drop.

DerpyPotato
DerpyPotato

Not completely sure how deep their team in India is It feels a bit like Tiger, they've invested in models that have a track record of going awry

Not sure how it works :/

SwirlyBoba
SwirlyBoba

How is burning 8 M a month possible in India for a company of this size ? Were they delivering coffee to desks using drones ?

QuirkyNugget
QuirkyNugget

Bro why the hate towards zepto 🤣

DerpyJellybean
DerpyJellybean
Arkim19mo

Industry insider here. The $120 Mn, majority from dream11 was not liquid money invested in the company. It was structured as bulk of it would be used to buy NFT rights in future. Some 10% of it was liquid cash invested in the company.

Don't think it bought any NFT rights this year. So they would not have burnt more than 10-15 Mn.

QuirkyNugget
QuirkyNugget

Thanks for this. It was needed

ZippyMochi
ZippyMochi

Makes sense. I was assuming it went towards rights, trademarks and licensing.

But only 10% liquid cash? Seems very less imo.

ZestyBanana
ZestyBanana

V.C staff n Founder both are chor here

SqueakyWalrus
SqueakyWalrus

Were there any kickback type of deals?

ZestyBanana
ZestyBanana

I cannot say specifically on this one but this is quite fishy. There are many such fishy investments. They seem to be more common for a particular v.c

GoofyLlama
GoofyLlama

Damn!

Oyo and Byjus ko bhi peeche chorr Diya! 🔥

CosmicNoodle
CosmicNoodle

Oyo ka bhi kuch scam hua tha kya?

GoofyLlama
GoofyLlama

Scam to bahut hue hai, but I meant in terms of burning through the funding so fast. At one time they were spending $2-3mil per month per country!

DerpyPenguin
DerpyPenguin

Where is Villa?

ZestyDonut
ZestyDonut

Adarsh Palm

QuirkyNugget
QuirkyNugget

For all the employees.

FuzzyNarwhal
FuzzyNarwhal
Cred19mo

Dunzo laughing in corner with 240 million usd burnt in 15-18 months

DerpyUnicorn
DerpyUnicorn

Although they also burnt badly, the employee count was ~2k

QuirkyDumpling
QuirkyDumpling
MSCI19mo

I still can't believe they burnt 120 million usd. Like how can you that and go unnoticed until you burn all?

That's 9,94,78,02,000 Rs..... (994 Crores) 😅

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