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  • The company posted losses to the tune of ₹83.81 crore for the FY23.
  • It’s a completely fresh issue with no offer for sale component.
  • The issue proceeds will be used to fund growth, tech, capex and general corporate purposes.

Fintech One Mobikwik Systems has filed a Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) with SEBI to raise ₹700 crore for its initial public offering (IPO).

For the fiscal 2022–23, the company’s revenue from operations has increased to ₹539.47 crore against ₹526.56 crore for fiscal 2021–22. Loss for the year decreased 34.6% from ₹128.16 crore in fiscal 2022 to ₹83.81 crore in fiscal 2023.

For the six months ended September 30, 2023, revenue from operations stood at ₹381.09 crore and profit after tax stood at ₹9.48 crore. The IPO has a face value of ₹2 is entirely a fresh issue of equity shares with no offer for sale component.

The company, in consultation with the book-running lead managers, may consider a further issue of specified securities including private placement, preferential allotment, rights issue, or any other method aggregating to ₹140 crore as ‘Pre-IPO placement’. If such placement is completed, the fresh issue size will be reduced.

Fresh issue to fund growth

The proceeds from the fresh issue, to the extent of ₹250 crore will be used for funding growth in the financial services business, ₹135 crore for funding growth in the payment services business, ₹135 crore for investment in data, ML and AI and product and technology, ₹70.28 crore for capital expenditure for the payment devices business, and general corporate purposes.

The issue is being made through the book-building process, wherein not less than 75% of the issue shall be available for allocation on a proportionate basis to qualified institutional buyers, not more than 15% of the issue shall be available for allocation to non-institutional investors, and not more than 10% of the issue shall be available for allocation to retail individual bidders.

Established Bipin Preet Singh and Upasana Taku, the fintech caters to businesses and merchants. It has extensive payments and financial services like online checkout, Kwik QR scan and pay, MobiKwik Vibe (Soundbox), MobiKwik EDC Machine, and Merchant Cash Advance.

Its subsidiary Zaakpay operates a B2B payment gateway for e-commerce businesses and has received RBI approval for its Payment Aggregator (PA) business.

MobiKwik provides consumers access to various payment options and financial products in digital credit, investments, and insurance has acquired approximately 18.29 million new users every year, between Fiscal 2021 and September 30, 2023.

As of September 30, 2023, the company has amassed 146.94 million registered users and enabled 3.81 million merchants to conduct online and offline payments. Its Payment GMV has grown annually 32.33%, while MobiKwik ZIP GMV (Disbursements) surged 354.86% from Fiscal 2021 to Fiscal 2023.

As per RedSeer, the company’s commitment to growth through cost-effective, technology-driven innovations is evident in its array of scaled products and its ability to maintain one of the lowest employee cost-to-revenue ratios among digital financial service platforms in Fiscal 2023.

SBI Capital Markets and DAM Capital Advisors are the book-running lead managers for the IPO, and Link Intime India Private is the registrar of the offer. The equity shares are proposed to be listed on the BSE and NSE.

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