"The company is rapidly expanding its presence in the travel retail space and they are talking to a couple of private investment bankers to scout for PE investors to fund this expansion," said the person privy to the development.
Currently, operating in Delhi-NCR, this startup has acquired over 200+ QSR™s, large food delivery players, and travel food services providers, they are working to scale this model to other cities.
This initial funding will be used in talent acquisition, technology up-gradation, data-analytics, operations, footprint enhancement and marketing for a more seamless, hassle-free and customer- friendly process.
In the last one month the Indian food business has seen lots of tea chain raising funds with players like Chaayos, Tea Trail, Tea Box and now Chai Point gaining the investors attention.
As part of the deal, the investors would acquire 87 KFC outlets from Yum! India, while 81 Pizza Hut outlets would be purchased from the Dubai-based Dodsal group, among others.
Deepankar along with his partner Vinayak Gupta has bootstrapped the initial investment and now wants to grow their business in Delhi-NCR after getting huge response in Noida.
Apart from growX, Singapore-based investment firm M&Y Growth Partners and angel investor Manish Singhal participated in the round, it said in a statement.
Meanwhile, media entrepreneur turned investor Ronnie Screwvala™s Unilazer Ventures Ltd had acquired a 43.5 per cent equity stake in IHMPL for Rs 18 crore ($2.93 million), valuing the firm at RS 41.3 crore.