Bengaluru-based tech-enabled logistics startup BlackBuck has raised ₹202 crores (~ US$27.3 million) in a fresh funding round from Sequoia Capital, which will be joining the startup as new investor, according to the regulatory filings. Existing investors Accel Partners and Sands Capital also participated in the round.
Sequoia’s SCI Investment fund has invested more than ₹100 crores in Blackbuck, while the rest comes Accel and Sands Capital. So far, the startup has raised a total of about $135 million in funding over five rounds including this one.
The funding comes soon after Sequoia Capital closed its sixth India focused fund at $695 million, in August 2018.
Founded in 2015, by IIT Kharagpur alumni - Chanakya Hridaya, Rajesh Yabaji and Ramasubramaniam B, BlackBuck is one of the best funded online freight startups in India. The startup has built a B2B online marketplace platform for freight where shippers and the fleet operators can engage seamlessly.
To recall, in December 2016 all three BackBuck co-founders had made strategic investment in Comet, a Mumbai-based online marketplace for international freight services.
Beside Accel, Sands Capital and now Sequoia, the other prominent investors that have invested in Blackbuck include Flipkart, IFC of World Bank, Tiger Global and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner-backed fund Apoletto Asia.
In the last two years, Blackbuck has seen fast growth with revenue growing seven-fold in FY'17 to Rs 566 crore however the losses also grew more than five times to Rs 86 crore. The startup had also reached operational profitability in that financial year. The company has not filed its financials for FY'18 so far.
“Macroeconomic factors like GST and their downstream effect into the logistics industry would affect the ecosystem in FY18 and company expects to be in a strong position to take advantage of the same,” Zinka Logistics, as the company is registered, had said in its MCA filing for FY'17.
Other prominent players in freight logistics include Locus, Locanix, ElasticRun, 4tigo Network Logistics, among others.
Earlier this month, Gurgaon-based GoBOLT, a tech-logistics company operating in line haul & short haul trucking, has secured funding of ₹40 crore from Aavishkaar Bharat Fund.
Late last month, one of India's largest third-party logistics (3PL) solution providers, Mahindra Logistics (MLL) had acquired a strategic stake in Transtech Logistics, also known as ShipX. The acquisition deal was done at Rs.7 Crores
Source - Economic Times
Sequoia’s SCI Investment fund has invested more than ₹100 crores in Blackbuck, while the rest comes Accel and Sands Capital. So far, the startup has raised a total of about $135 million in funding over five rounds including this one.
The funding comes soon after Sequoia Capital closed its sixth India focused fund at $695 million, in August 2018.
Founded in 2015, by IIT Kharagpur alumni - Chanakya Hridaya, Rajesh Yabaji and Ramasubramaniam B, BlackBuck is one of the best funded online freight startups in India. The startup has built a B2B online marketplace platform for freight where shippers and the fleet operators can engage seamlessly.
To recall, in December 2016 all three BackBuck co-founders had made strategic investment in Comet, a Mumbai-based online marketplace for international freight services.
Beside Accel, Sands Capital and now Sequoia, the other prominent investors that have invested in Blackbuck include Flipkart, IFC of World Bank, Tiger Global and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner-backed fund Apoletto Asia.
In the last two years, Blackbuck has seen fast growth with revenue growing seven-fold in FY'17 to Rs 566 crore however the losses also grew more than five times to Rs 86 crore. The startup had also reached operational profitability in that financial year. The company has not filed its financials for FY'18 so far.
“Macroeconomic factors like GST and their downstream effect into the logistics industry would affect the ecosystem in FY18 and company expects to be in a strong position to take advantage of the same,” Zinka Logistics, as the company is registered, had said in its MCA filing for FY'17.
Other prominent players in freight logistics include Locus, Locanix, ElasticRun, 4tigo Network Logistics, among others.
Earlier this month, Gurgaon-based GoBOLT, a tech-logistics company operating in line haul & short haul trucking, has secured funding of ₹40 crore from Aavishkaar Bharat Fund.
Late last month, one of India's largest third-party logistics (3PL) solution providers, Mahindra Logistics (MLL) had acquired a strategic stake in Transtech Logistics, also known as ShipX. The acquisition deal was done at Rs.7 Crores
Source - Economic Times
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