Designed to capitalize on Dineout’s unique assets and leading position in the dining out space, the acquisition will enable Swiggy to cater to every food occasion.
While the food delivery business has nearly doubled in gross order value (GOV) in the last year, this fund raise will enable Swiggy to further accelerate growth on the core platform and make meaningful investments to grow Instamart.
Out of 200,000 delivery partners that Swiggy has, about 1,000 of them are women delivery partners; interestingly 99 per cent of them are under the age of 45 and 35 per cent of them want to continue further their studies.
The Bengaluru based food delivery platform also mentioned that its food delivery business had surpassed pre-Covid levels and non-food businesses were witnessing robust growth.
One of the reasons for designing such a proposal was that there was no mandatory registration check by these players and there were unregistered restaurants supplying through these apps.
The funding round also saw participation by existing investors, Accel Partners and Wellington Management apart from new investors including; Qatar Investment Authority, Falcon Edge Capital, Amansa Capital, Goldman Sachs, Think Investments and Carmignac.
Swiggy was founded by Nandan Reddy, Sri Harsha Majety and Rahul Jaimini in 2014. Rahul exited the company last year by co-founding an education start-up.