Zomato gains up to 83% in Mumbai Trading debut
Indian online food-delivery and restaurant platform Zomato Ltd. surged in its trading debut, setting the stage for a plethora of unicorns to follow the service with initial public offerings.
The shares jumped as much as 83% and traded at 136.90 rupees as of 10:11 a.m. in Mumbai Friday, compared with the IPO price of 76 rupees. Zomato raised $1.3 billion from investors including Morgan Stanley and Fidelity Investments in the share sale last week.
Zomato is leading several consumer-technology startups waiting to publicly trade shares in India, including the parent of digital-payments service Paytm, which has filed for the country’s biggest IPO at $2.2 billion.