Reliance Industries has acquired a majority stake in the fashion e-commerce platform through a $41.7m majority stake purchase that will enable Google to exit.

Conglomerate Reliance Industries has agreed to pay Rs 2.95bn ($41.7m) for an 87.6% stake in India-based fashion e-commerce platform Fynd, allowing internet technology provider Google to exit, the Economic Times reported on Sunday.

Reliance also has the option to invest an additional $14m in Fynd by 2021, according to a stock exchange filing cited by ET. All Fynd’s existing investors will exit while its founders will retain equity stakes.

Founded in 2012, Fynd has built an online platform that links…

Subscribe to go deeper

GCV subscribers get access to all our proprietary data and deep-dive articles, as well as the global directory of CVC investors.



Not sure if you have a subscription?