Ixigo IPO

The technology company, ixigo, was launched in 2007 with an aim to assist Indian travellers in managing, booking and planning their tours across hotels, buses, air and rail. It helps travellers to make smarter decisions through data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence-based innovations on its OTA platforms (apps and websites).

With its focus on cost-efficiency, customer experience and travel utility, it has emerged as a leading travel ecosystem in India. The travel utility services and tools have been developed using crowd-sourced information and proprietary algorithms. The company is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana. ixigo now plans to float an initial public offering to reach new heights.

Ixigo (Le Travenues Technology Ltd) IPO - Details

On 12 August 2021, ixigo filed its preliminary papers with SEBI (market regulator) to fetch Rs. 1,600 crores through a public offer. As per the DRHP, the offering will comprise Rs. 850 crores as an OFS (offer for sale) and Rs. 750 crores as a fresh issue of equity shares.

In this public offering, Micromax Informatics will offload shares worth Rs. 200 crores, and Saif Partners India IV has planned to sell shares amounting to Rs. 550 crores. Besides, Rajnish Kumar and Aloke Bajpai will sell Rs. 50 crores worth of shares each.

Investment bankers such as Nomura, Kotak Mahindra Capital, Axis Capital and ICICI Securities are associated with this initial share sale. Follow the chart below for more details on this public issue:

Ixigo IPO Objectives

Ixigo will use the proceeds from its initial share sale for the following purposes:

- For inorganic and organic growth initiatives.
- For corporate purposes.

Through this public issue, the company expects to enhance its brand name among potential and veteran users. Further, this initial share sale will mark a partial exit for Micromax and Elevation Capital.

Why should you invest in ixigo IPO?

Investing in the initial public offering of ixigo can be a rewarding choice due to the following aspects:

• ixigo is the biggest online travel agency (OTA) for trains. The train-based apps, such as ConfirmTkt, account for a market share of 42% with respect to rail bookings in FY 21 for IRCTC.

• Its bus-related app, namely AbhiBus, emerged as the second greatest bus ticketing OTA during FY 21, with 10% of the market share.

• The total number of app users of ixigo stood at 37.48 million on the basis of MAU (monthly active users) in March 2021. This marks the highest app usage among the OTA platforms.

• Since its inception, ixigo has raised $ 82 millions through secondary share sales and $ 58 millions from investors in the primary market. This makes it one of the least funded customer tech startups to touch the financial market.