Flipkart announces spin off of PhonePe News Today

  • | Friday | 4th December, 2020

Chennai: Flipkart India's homegrown e-commerce marketplace has announced a partial spin-off of PhonePe. According to a company statement 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 partial spin-off also provides PhonePe an opportunity to constitute a new Board of Directors focused on supporting its development and to create a tailor-made equity incentive or ESOP program for its employees. In this financing round PhonePe is raising USD $700Mn in primary capital at a post-money valuation of USD $5.5Bn from existing Flipkart investors led by Walmart.

Chennai: Flipkart Indias homegrown e-commerce marketplace has announced a partial spin-off of PhonePe. According to a company statement Flipkarts 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 partial spin-off also provides PhonePe an opportunity to constitute a new Board of Directors focused on supporting its development and to create a tailor-made equity incentive or ESOP program for its employees. In this financing round PhonePe is raising USD $700Mn in primary capital at a post-money valuation of USD $5.5Bn from existing Flipkart investors led by Walmart.

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