Startup Mafia 3.0: Razorpay, Cred, Meesho help spawn 200+ foundersIndia’s new-generation startups are creating a fresh wave of founders, with executives from 111 firms launching over 200 new companies. Raz...
17 Mar, 2026, 06.57 PM IST
Bike taxis slam brakes in K’taka; Meesho’s flipback nodRide-hailing apps halted bike-taxi operations in Karnataka from Monday, as the high court-imposed ban came into effect. This and more in to...
16 Jun, 2025, 08.15 PM IST
Swiggy allocates 2.61 crore shares to staffSwiggy has rolled out three Esop plans so far—one each in 2015, 2021 and 2024. This aggregates to a pool of almost 230 million shares.
27 Jan, 2025, 03.15 PM IST
Meesho FY24 revenue jumps 33% to Rs 7,615 crore, Esop adjusted loss at Rs 53 croreAccording to Meesho, its financial improvement was primarily driven by growth in annual transacting users and increased order frequency amo...
30 Oct, 2024, 11.21 AM IST
IPO-bound Swiggy announces fifth Esop plan worth $65 millionSwiggy has cumulatively enabled over Rs 1,000 crore of Esops liquidity over the five events, benefiting more than 3,200 employees. Girish M...
15 Jul, 2024, 05.46 PM IST
Meesho kicks off Rs 200-crore Esop buybackBoth current and former employees can participate in the buyback programme, its largest to date. Meesho said it had conducted similar buyba...
13 Mar, 2024, 05.45 PM IST
Fidelity Investments cuts Meesho's valuation by 10% to $4.4 billionNotably, Fidelity’s funds had valued Meesho at $4.98 billion as of December 2022. Prior to that, as of September 2022, the investor had asc...
30 May, 2023, 09.09 PM IST
Startup biggies to double down on CXO hiringAccording to data shared by Xpheno, a specialist staffing firm, 100 to 120 CXOs are likely to be hired by these 130 unicorns and soonicorns...
29 Jan, 2022, 10.39 AM IST
Esops worth Rs 3,200 crore bought back by startupsIn the last few months, companies have come up with attractive Esop liquidity plans.
24 Nov, 2021, 06.35 AM IST
PhonePe conducts Rs 135-crore ESOP buybackPhonePe, part of the Walmart-controlled Flipkart Group, has conducted ESOP buyback worth Rs 135 crore, but the company founders—Sameer Niga...
20 Nov, 2021, 10.10 AM IST
Meesho announces ‘ESOP for all’ programmeMeesho’s ‘ESOP for all’ enables all full-time employees—irrespective of their tenure in the company or their seniority—to be able to conver...
19 Nov, 2021, 07.35 PM IST
Meesho announces ‘ESOP for all’ program“Our repeated and periodic buybacks ensure our employees continue to grow with us,” said Vidit Aatrey, Founder & CEO, Meesho. “The MeeSOP p...
19 Nov, 2021, 07.24 PM IST
Meesho undertakes third ESOP buyback worth $5.5 millionMeesho, a social commerce platform that’s looking to take on Amazon and Flipkart in India’s ecommerce space, has repurchased ESOPs worth $6...
29 Oct, 2021, 11.47 AM IST
Startups play Santa early for employees with a flurry of Esop buybacksEmployees — in some cases hit by pay cuts — got cash, and employers, a happy workplace as well as a retention tool in a job market that’s j...
25 Dec, 2020, 10.42 AM IST
Swiggy and Meesho offer their staff new Esops buyback optionSeveral companies including Flipkart, Urban Company, Unacademy, Moglix, Oyo, and Razorpay have gone in for stock buybacks in the recent pas...
10 Nov, 2020, 03.39 PM IST
Meesho undertakes ESOP buyback worth $5 mnThe total worth of the latest ESOP re-purchasing programme is expected to be approximately USD 5 million, it added.
10 Nov, 2020, 01.53 PM IST
Meesho investor buys Esops worth $1 million“Liquidity events like these shows to our employees as well as future prospectus that our stock options have real value,” said Sanjeev Barn...
14 Feb, 2020, 09.39 AM IST