Zomato is planning aggressively, looking to venture into cloud kitchens
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Morgan Stanely- the global investment bank is all ready to raise the new financial round for Zomato, according to two sources familiar with the development.
The investment is expected to be bigger than that of last time $60 million the company raised. It has been confirmed by the company that the company has mandated
“We are raising this round to accelerate growth, we won't die if we don't raise capital,, said Goyal in an interview. Investor interest in the last 2-3 months has been very high. We were planning to start fundraising in March-April next year, but given the inbound interest, it made sense to start now,” Zomato's CEO
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The company plans to use half of the capital raised for delivery business, while the rest will be used to expand new businesses such as table reservations and special deals by restaurants.
It also plans to launch cloud kitchens or infrastructure services for food delivery business, where it will lease space and invite restaurants to set up a kitchen without fixed costs
"These will be delivery-only food courts in areas where demand is very high but restaurants are not present,” goyal said.
Zomato, till last year, was only focused on monetisation through advertising revenues earned from restaurants. Last year, it expanded into fooddelivery business which accounts for over 25% of its India revenue, and 17-18% of global revenue right now. Zomato is currently doing 1.5-million orders a month, and is growing at 20% month-on-month
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