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Flipkart will announce possibly as early as next week that it has raised over $1 billion (Rs 6,000 crore), the biggest ever fund-raising by an Indian e-commerce company, two people aware of the development said.
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Half of the amount will come from existing investors Tiger Global, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner's DST and Accel Partners while the rest will come from several new investors.
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Among those who are said to be interested in investing in India's largest online retailer are Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC and USbased investment firm T Rowe Price. With this latest deal, India's biggest online retailer will have raised over $1.7 billion, valuing it at over $5 billion.
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A billion dollars in fresh funding is not just a first for the Indian startup ecosystem, but is also among the biggest fund raises globally this year. In June this year, Silicon Valley-based Uber raised $1.2 billion at a valuation of around $17 billion.
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Flipkart is rapidly scaling up its operations as it competes with Amazon.in and homegrown competitor Snapdeal.
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