
Bootstrapped upskilling firm Intellipaat taps EY for pre-IPO fundraising
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : Bootstrapped upskilling firm Intellipaat Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd has appointed consultancy major EY to advise on its fundraising plans as it targets a revenue of ₹700-800 crore over the next two years, a top executive of the firm told Mint.
To fund the next phase of growth, the company is exploring a pre-initial public offering (IPO) private equity round of about ₹500 crore, before an approximately ₹800 crore IPO within 12-16 months, said founder and chief executive officer Diwakar Chittora. While the company has not appointed a banker for its IPO yet, EY will advise Intellipaat on its pre-IPO fundraising. “We have multiple business lines, each with significant growth potential.
That said, our immediate target for the next one and a half to two years is to reach a revenue of around ₹700-800 crore," Chittora said. “We also have a very clear vision for the future, with plans to go public in the next 12 to 16 months." He added that the company is exploring the private equity round to set a valuation benchmark for its IPO. EY declined to comment on Mint’s queries.
Founded in 2011, Intellipaat reported a revenue of ₹182.9 crore and a profit after tax (PAT) of ₹18.5 crore in 2023-24, up from a revenue of ₹70.5 crore and PAT of ₹9.9 crore in 2021-22, showed data from analytics firm Tracxn. The sharp growth was driven by a spike in demand for the company's existing suite of offerings in the data science and artificial intelligence space towards the end of 2022 as the buzz around generative AI picked up. “We also held back marketing spend during the peak funding years of 2020-21 when other hyper-funded peers were burning cash.
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