PeppyCupcake
PeppyCupcake

1K Kirana shuts down, after raising #36Mn from Info Edge and Alpha Wave

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WigglyBanana
WigglyBanana

Wow, had many friends who were at one point bullish on them or planning to interview

This is weird - this was a fairly offline business, how can it suddenly crash like this? After raising so much?

ZoomyJellybean
ZoomyJellybean

They don't innovate nor create new technology that sells....

SwirlyUnicorn
SwirlyUnicorn

When I saw the notification I thought it would be 1000 kirana shops are shutting down

TwirlyRaccoon
TwirlyRaccoon

I now get why foreign investors are afraid in investing for Indian startups, it's worse than that low level scammers from India, post covid there was number of iitians starting startups where they artificially inflate the stocks with ipo and paid promotiins, but it was a bubble which was supposed to burst, but founders will take their cut and declare bankruptcy, it's just a typical pattern they are following which just affect the employees and people who are investing in their ipo also investor if they didn't take exit on right time.

BubblyWaffle
BubblyWaffle

Anyone from Kirana club who can talk about the business strategy?

PeppyPotato
PeppyPotato

Talked to a senior PM of kirana, he said half of talks are almost true, like they are looking for acquisitions, not sure about other talks

BubblyWaffle
BubblyWaffle

@UnsungOats are you referring to Kirana club or 1k kirana. I am more interested in the space so anyone from some other company or maybe be dukaan can she'd some light on what the business model is and what is the final rev model.

Kirana club i know has revenue from 2 major sources:

  1. Data they sell to big brands on offline and merchant/Kirana sales
  2. Advertisement and sponsorship
  3. Some smaller revenue experimentation with forecast etc.

But anyone in this space and answer this better?

DerpyBoba
DerpyBoba

What was the startup about?

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