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Surviving upstarts, creating unicorns, and tapping public market: Listing is good. Ask Info Edge.

Surviving upstarts, creating unicorns, and tapping public market: Listing is good. Ask Info Edge.
Surviving upstarts, creating unicorns, and tapping public market: Listing is good. Ask Info Edge.
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Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder, Info Edge

Synopsis

With unicorns in its portfolio, Zomato and Policybazaar, preparing for mega public listings, the spotlight is on the success of Info Edge’s unique model. Can the publicly listed company continue its private investment play in the highly competitive venture-capital landscape?

A large database of resumes spawns three billion-dollar companies and a venture-capital fund. It is perhaps the most under-celebrated success story in India’s digital-economy landscape. It’s the story of Info Edge — the Internet company that manages a USD100 million venture fund and is the seed funder of a string of startups including unicorns Zomato and Policybazaar. As the legend goes, it all started a quarter of a century ago when the
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