Retail biz will give us brand identity and recall: Infra.Market co-founder

Infra.Market's co-founder talks about the company's future plans, including retail ambitions, plans to look at the capital markets and more

Infra.Market, a business-to-business (B2B) platform for construction material, came into the limelight early this month after it raised $125 million from Tiger Global at a post-funding valuation of $2.5 billion. This was hardly five months after the company became a unicorn. Infra.Market’s co-founder Aaditya Sharda talks about the firm’s future plans including retail ambitions, and proposed entry into the capital markets, in an interview with Shine Jacob. Edited excerpts:

1. What are your plans after the fresh round of fundraising?

From my angle, I look at it as three different projects. One is our standard B2B business, which is akin