Ola to raise $100 million to fuel expansion
Cab aggregator Ola is looking at raising up to $100 million (nearly Rs 665.28 crore) in fresh funding from existing shareholders to take American rival Uber head-on.
The board of the Bengaluru-based company has approved a proposal to raise up to $100 million from existing shareholders in a recent meeting.
Both Ola and Uber have made multi-million dollar investments in their operations in India to ramp up the number of vehicles on their platform as well as getting new riders on board.
The board approved the proposal to offer convertible securities at Rs 13,521 apiece through a rights issue at its meeting on March 22, 2017.
In a regulatory filing, ANI Technologies — which operates Ola — said its board has approved raising “up to $100 million (about Rs 670 crore) by the issue of 495,526 Series ‘l1’ preference shares of face value Rs 10 each at a price per subscription share equivalent to Rs 13,521”.
The filing, made to the Corporate Affairs Ministry under the Companies Act, added that the rights issue was scheduled for March 23.
However, it could not be immediately ascertained how much the company raised through the issue. A query sent to Ola did not elicit any response.
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