Swiggy, an online food-ordering and delivery start-up, is owned and operated by Bundl Technologies Private Limited. They have reported their results for the FY 14-15 and they are not much different from other online food ordering startups.

Financial Performance

The company reported revenue of INR 11.6 lacs against a loss of INR 2.1 crores. The revenue from operations stood at INR 7 lacs. The revenue comprises the delivery fees charged to restaurants and ‘e-commerce revenue’. The biggest expense for the company was the employee expense at INR 1.3 crores.

Swiggy mainly competes with Foodpanda, TinyOwl, Faaso’s and now Zomato, when it entered the food delivery segment last year. Following is a comparison of FY 14-15 revenue and PAT of ley players in food-tech. Zomato has not been included since it has primarily been a restaurant search and discovery platform and thus is not exactly comparable with the others.

Story so far

Swiggy was founded by Sriharsha Majety, Rahul Jaimini and Nandan Reddy in December, 2013 in Bengaluru and became operational in FY 14-15. It enlists restaurants from nearby location to the customers who can then select and place order through its app or the website. It has dedicated delivery personnel to pick up orders from restaurants and deliver them to the customers. Swiggy now has its operations in 8 cities across India.

Funding

Swiggy secured its first funding from SAIF Partners in January 2015 followed by a funding round of INR 100 crores in June. The company has raised a total funding of INR 113.6 crores so far, from SAIF Partners, Accel, Norwest Venture and Apoletto Asia. Here is a snapshot of total funding raised by Swiggy and its competitors in foodtech.

With most of the players at almost similar stages, there is no clear leader so far in the online food ordering space. Although Zomato is way ahead of anyone in the restaurant search and discovery space, they have only just begun their food ordering operations. A few of the players such as Dazo, Spponjoy, etc. have already shut shop and there could be more such cases or industry consolidation. With heavy funding, this sector has already garnered everybody’s attention and it would be interesting to see how the space emerges.

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TinyOwl recently completed its one year of operations in June this year. It is a Mumbai based food ordering and delivery app. It claims to have 10,000 restaurants on board and receives 7,000 orders per day. In this article, Tofler looks at the financial performance of TinyOwl in FY 2014-15.

Launched in 2014, TinyOwl is owned by TinyOwl Technology Private Limited. It was co-founded by five IIT graduates:

• Harsh Vardhan Mandad,
• Gaurav Chowdhary,
• Saurab Goyal,
• Tanuj Khandelwal
• Shikhar Paliwal.

Financial Performance of TinyOwl in FY 2014-15

TinyOwl is into its second year of operations. The company has reported Revenue from its operations as INR 24 thousand in the Financial Year 2014-15. Its Total Revenue stands at INR 44 lacs, the source for the remaining income being the interest received on VC funds parked as fixed deposits by the company.

However, total Expenses incurred by the Company were INR 25.5 Crores. It closed its financial year with a Loss of nearly INR 25 Crores. The major expense incurred by the company during this period was Employee Expense at INR 12 Crores.

Funding received by TinyOwl

While different news sources on internet indicate that they have received a funding of USD 28 million – ~ INR 180 Crores – in 4 rounds so far (including the latest round of USD 7.7 million in October 2015), documents filed with the Registrar of Companies indicate that they have received total funding of INR 100 Crores in three rounds from Sequoia Capital, Nexus Ventures and Matrix Partners. Documents of the latest round (October 2015) have not been filed yet. The details are as below:

This is how TinyOwl’s shareholding looks after the above rounds of funding.

The company was recently in the news for employee layoff crisis. The founders view it as “some difficult steps towards the big dream”.

With a surge in food tech and delivery startups over the past couple of years and recent cases of shut shops and layoffs, the segment seems to be in a consolidation phase. While, Tiny Owl has been one of the front runners in the segment so far, it remains to be seen how well they tackle this difficult phase and become financially sustainable. They have some of the top VCs’ money backing them up in the endeavor.

This blog was originally published here by Team Tofler

Author– Vishal, a Sci-fi enthusiast, engineer by mistake and writer by choice, combines his eye for numbers with natural storytelling to churn out Tofler’s blogs.

Editor –  Anchal, founder at Tofler, is a CA, CS and has more than 5 years experience in company analysis. She likes to explore and track companies, their performance and senior management.