SleepyJellybean

India's 109th unicorn?

I had heard Waycool was also talking to raise at unicorn valuation, but they've fired like 300 people on Monday, so that's pretty uncertain. What to make of Zepto, though?

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JumpyLlama

BYJU'S21mo

Zepto is doing fairly good job

ZippyDumpling

LivSpace21mo

But they are in a losing match againt Instamart and Blinkit. How does it make sense to put more capital behind the 3rd runner that has nothing unique?

Acquisition?

SquishyCupcake

Dunzo21mo

Dunzo :(

GoofyDonut

Stealth21mo

Oh boy here we go again!

ZippyDumpling

LivSpace21mo

Okay thoughts: what can Zepto do better than Instamart and blinkit? What am I missing??

WobblyPickle

Zomato21mo

Write me off for being biased but their app and UI is ancient when compared to Blinkit or Instamart.

There’s a clear lack of thought behind designing an experience that increases CTR and cart checkouts.

DizzyDonut

Harness21mo

Moat is not the UI. If one were to go with UI or UX then bigbasket had a pretty bad one and still is in business😅

As long as they stick to quick delivery without too much of service or delivery charge and can make bucks in the process they should be fine. But yeah surprised that they managed to raise money in a bear market esp since they don't seem to be profitable or close to it if am correct.

FuzzyNarwhal

Stealth21mo

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rohan-chaudhary-756014105_the-zepto-story-the-mysterious-third-activity-7028603498543931392-QG_k?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android

Reminds of this article. Forget every damn metric. It is easy common sense. No way Zepto or any other hyper local delivery company could become profitable.

As a founder myself, I don't want startups to fail. But atleast they can avoid misleading narratives.

I've seen more PR from these poster boys than any sensible contribution.

Either this is a money lobby or over inflated IPOs in the next 2 years stating healthy unit economies on the cards.

All this unicorn play is non-sense. I recently spoke to a B2B SaaS founder who have helped Zepto, that company is cash flow positive in <2 years of operations.

FluffyDumpling

MongoDB21mo

I just don't get it, these investors keep on putting money into loss making businesses. They just find a new way to shoot themselves in the foot. Zepto has been closing down their dark stores in Bangalore. Hugely loss making with money crunch yet being funded without any accountability

JazzyWaffle

Stealth21mo

Notice that it's a pretty unknown investor. There are a lot of reasons money flows into certain places. Sometimes it's for financial returns, sometimes it isn't.

DerpyMuffin

Stealth21mo

Blinkit is backed by Zomato. Instamart is backed by Swiggy. Dunzo is backed by Jio(25%). But zepto is not backed by anyone and quick-commerce is a game of money, I don't think so they are going to sustain.

JazzyWaffle

Stealth21mo

This is PR. I'll believe it when I see it.

SleepyJellybean

Stealth21mo

Sauce: https://inc42.com/buzz/zepto-likely-to-be-2023s-first-unicorn-with-150-mn-funding/

ZoomyBurrito

Student21mo

Late to the party here but please read the INC42's article of how these 'yOuNG EnTRepRenEUrs' have less than 2% Equity each with big VC houses and their family's trust funds taking the rest.

My hunch is this is a VC mastermind to get two boys, making them a star, call them genius, drop out story, control the company themselves have these as the front men, inflate the company, exit and bye bye.

JazzyBagel

Reliance Retail21mo

This company will become the epitome of burning BC money and influencing others to do so. 10 min delivery is an utter bullshit

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Despite the funding winter environment, higher management woes and business model doubts they raised a colossal $200mn. Any inside beans to spill here?