Swiggy Bazaar will face tough competition from incumbents like SoftBank-backed Meesho, InMobi-owned Shop101, Korea Investment Partners-backed GlowRoad, and Tiger Global-backed DealShare.

Vaibhav Jain shares his inspiration behind the platform and offers tips on how to organize better virtual events.

The seven-year-old startup, which counts marquee investors like Tiger Global, Steadview Capital, Accel India, Elevation Capital, and Prosus Ventures as backers, became a unicorn earlier this year.

In this round of India Digest from October 1 to October 7, 2021, read our big story of the week, the weekly buzz, and more.

The development comes a few days after Ola’s electric mobility business Ola Electric raised a USD 200 million funding round.

Private equity and venture capital firms have poured in a record USD 49 billion into Indian companies across 840 deals during the first nine months of 2021.

Oyo’s net income nose-dived 69% to USD 558 million in the financial year ended March 31, 2021, from USD 1.8 billion in FY 2020—the year before the pandemic hit.

In this round of India Digest from September 24 to September 30, 2021, read our big story of the week, the weekly buzz, and more.