Ninjacart's valuation breaches $500 Mn

Ninjacart, led by Thirukumaran Nagarajan offers fresh produce supply chain startup has raised $9.5 million in a new round from its existing investor Syngenta Ventures. With this Ninjacart has approved the allotment of 1,746 preference shares at an issue price of Rs 400,848 to Syngenta to raise Rs 70 crore. It appears that the tranche is ongoing and the company may raise more funds.

Ninjacart enables retailers and restaurants to source fresh produce directly from farmers at competitive prices and also delivers it to businesses, including mandis.

With this, Nijacart has reached the post-money valuation of Rs 3,715 crore or $502 million in this tranche. The company was valued at around $320 million during a $90 million Series C round led by Tiger Global in April 2019. At that time, the New York-based hedge fund had acquired a 26.5% stake in Ninjacart.

Ninjacart has a network of more than 200 collection centres and 1,200 warehouses in India. It claims to move over 1,400 tons of fresh produce daily and supplies to stores across seven cities – Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Gurugram, Mumbai and Pune.

Ninjacart’s current shareholding structure in which Tiger Global now holds 22.9% stake followed by early backer Accel Partners which has 17.7%. After the fresh infusion, Syngenta holds 5.2%. As per the report, Nandan Nilekani & Family and Flipkart have 5.6% and 4.3% stake respectively. Among the founders, Nagarajan has the largest stake of 5.2% in the company whereas Kartheeswaran K K, Ashutosh Vikram, Sharath Loganathan and Vasudevan Chinnathambi have 2.2% stake each.