Zomato is raising $150 million from investor Ant Financial, an Alibaba affiliate, at a valuation of $3 billion for the food delivery start-up.
Zomato's top shareholder Info Edge (India) Ltd said in a filing on Friday said that after the funding its stake will drop to about 25.13 per cent. It had a 26.38 per cent stake, as of March last year.
The fund infusion comes as Zomato pushes for a bigger market share in the highly competitive Indian food delivery space in a race with rivals such as Tencent-backed Swiggy and Uber's UberEats.
The capital is part of a larger $500 million fund raising that is likely to close in the next two months, the Economic Times newspaper reported citing a person with knowledge of the matter.
Zomato confirmed that the $150 million fundraise was part of a larger round, but did not give further details.
The Gurugram-based restaurant aggregator recorded a loss of $294 million in the year ending March, compared with a loss of $12 million a year earlier as it burnt more cash in its Indian delivery business to grab new customers, unaudited figures from its annual report showed.
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