A husband-and-wife founding team is in discussions with banks about raising as much as $2 billion in an initial public offering (IPO) for one of their startups, aiming for India’s biggest tech debut since
fintech giant Paytm.
OfBusiness, a start-up founded by Ruchi Kalra and Asish Mohapatra to help Indian enterprises buy bulk raw materials, could file initial listing documents around October, people familiar with the matter said. The start-up is in talks now to raise about $400 million of pre-IPO financing in coming months, one of them said. It’s in discussions with potential IPO arrangers, including Goldman Sachs Group and Morgan