Once the fresh round is complete, BII will own 44.7 percent of LetsTransport
The latest internal round will be a mix of primary capital and also include a secondary shares sale where Fosun, an early backer of LetsTransport, will dilute its stake, Moneycontrol has learnt
Half of the $1 million buyback will constitute ESOPs while the other half would be equity held by its investors.
BII recently invested in two future-of-work themed start-ups from its newly announced fund of $500 million to be invested into Indian start-ups in the next few years.
Awign said it aims to add over five lakh annually active gig partners by 2025, and wants to get to 30 crore tasks on the platform.
For 2022-23, BII says it plans to focus investments in healthtech, enterprisetech, future of work, fintech and agritech, and also explore disruptive technologies like Web3 and deeptech.
The funds raised will be deployed in product development as well as technology across systems, user experience, and building laboratories. The company also plans to expand to new markets and strengthen its teams across all functions.
The company plans to use the funding to add new programmes with existing and new university partners as well as expand its geographical footprint to China, Latin America and Europe, the executive education programmes provider said in a release.
Online furniture marketplace to use funds to fuel growth and expansion. Latest funds infusion comes from Goldman Sachs, Bertelsmann India Investments, Norwest Venture Partners, and Zodius Technology Fund.
Existing investors, SAIF Partners and Matrix Partners India also participated in the round of funding, it said in a statement.
"With Bertelsmann India Investments (BII) onboard, we look forward to leveraging its deep understanding of global financial products as well as Internet businesses," Lendingkart Group co-founder and CEO Harshvardhan Lunia said in a statement.
Existing investors, Nirvana Digital India Fund, Nirvana Digital Investment Holding Co Ltd, US-based 500 Start-Ups and Singapore's Beenext also participated in the fresh round of funding, KartRocket said in a statement.
This is the second investment by Sarin, after taxi aggregator app Ola, in the Indian startup ecosystem in the last three months