拉胡尔Maroli

2018年7月9日

在线食品外卖Dibz启动也作为online-to-offline (O2O)发现餐厅的交易平台,筹集了一笔数目不详的一轮融资桥梁从Stellaris Venture Partners和现有投资者Benori合资企业,公司高管告诉VCCircle。Vikas Bagaria PeeSafe厕所卫生品牌的创始人,拉胡尔Maroli ride-hailing独角兽Ola和业务主管副总裁也参加了这一轮。两个人都投资于Dibz过去。除了Stellaris,这一轮的其他新投资者包括Ritu Mehrotra, Booking.com,国家经理和;Gulati创始人Aakarsshan工艺品&家居用品的平台。有限公司将主要使用新资本扩大到更多的城市除了巩固业务领域已经有一个存在,联合创始人声速的潘德说。“尽管我们在Gurugram和计划扩大到德里和诺伊达,二级和3市场是我们的主要焦点,”潘德说。“我们已经在瓦拉纳西,阿拉哈巴德,勒克瑙。我们很快就会在德拉敦和坎普尔推出我们的服务。“Dibz希望在10个城市10月底。除了扩大到更多的城市在北方邦,冒险进入另一个国家也在它的待办事项清单。 The company had previously raised two rounds of funding – one each in 2016 and 2017 – from Benori Ventures, Bagaria and Maroli besides Amit Parsuramka, president-funds at Lodha Ventures and Partha Sarathi Guha Patra, founder of Asadel Tech. Dibz Founded in November 2015, Dibz had a soft launch in April 2016 in Gurugram before moving into tier-2 markets in the region. Late last year, Pande’s husband Rishabh Kaila came on board as a co-founder . Dibz’s other founding members include Udit Verma, who looks after verticals that include marketing, operations, customer acquisition and retention. Raunak Pandey handles business development. The venture started off as a mobile app that enables users to discover curated offers and deals from more than 150 restaurants, hotels and pubs. Using proprietary algorithms and a predictive analytics platform, Dibz helps its merchants decide on appropriate deals. However, Dibz has gradually moved away from deal discovery as its primary business and is currently focussing on food delivery. The venture also has plans to develop in-house logistics capabilities. Dibz claims to have more than 70,000 customers using its platform and has plans to increase this number to about 5 lakh by end of this year as it expands to new markets. “The idea is to eventually become a unified platform for food. Be it restaurant deals & discounts, table bookings or home deliveries, we want to be the go-to platform for anything to do with food,” she added. Deals in the space Dibz operates in a food delivery space dominated by Zomato and Swiggy, which have both raised large sums of money this year. Both unicorns offer curated deals as well. Players in this particular segment have found it difficult to find the right revenue and pricing model, with lack of customer loyalty also complicating matters. However, industry observers feel that macroeconomic factors coupled with the government’s digital push and deeper penetration of smartphones will make the deal discovery space more lucrative, particularly in non-metro cities. Investors Stellaris Venture Partners is an early-stage investment firm started by former Helion Venture Partners executives Alok Goyal, Ritesh Banglani and Rahul Chowdhri. Stellaris’ investment areas include local language online services, technology-led financial inclusion, supply chain networks, vertical machine-learning applications and global software-as-a-service businesses. Its earlier bets include performance wear startup Bigphi Technologies, mobile business-to-business marketplace Wydr, software-as-a-service platform Whatfix, and mobile-first communication platform for on-field staff Noticeboard. Benori Ventures, which focuses on incubating and investing in startups in India, is led by research major Evalueserve’s former chief operating officer Ashish Gupta. It mostly invests in early-stage startups based in Delhi-NCR. The company focuses on sectors such as education, food, fintech, healthcare and agriculture. The startups in its portfolio include ConveGenius and KleverMind.