Indus leads for ShareChat on $502m unicorn round with AZB, KCo, Gunderson, Cooley, Skadden

Mohalla Tech, the parent company behind India’s leading short video app Moj and Indic language social media platform ShareChat has become the latest entrant to the Unicorn Club. The company has raised US$502 million in its latest round. With the new rounds of investment, the valuation stands a little over US$2.1 billion. The investment has been led by Lightspeed Ventures and Tiger Global, along with participation from Snap Inc, Twitter and India Quotient amongst others, according to reports.

IndusLaw advised Sharechat and its founders led by a team in Delhi of partnersManish Gupta and Anubha Sital, principal associatesNikita Goyal and Ashish Ahluwalia and associateRashi Singh.

Sharechat has had new general counsel GT Thomas Phillippe since October 2020.

Gunderson Dettmer Singapore acted for Lightspeed and Tiger with partnerJonathan C Pentzien and associatesJolyn Ang and Soo Guo Kai.

AZB & Partners Bangalore also supported Lightspeed and Tiger.

Snap was represented by Cooley’s Singapore team led by its partnerFerish Patel and associatesMiae Woo and Abhishek Banerjee.

Twitter was represented by Skadden’s Singapore team led by its partnerParveet Gandoak.

Also advising Twitter was Khaitan & Co in Bangalore led by its partnerSharad Moudgal and senior associateBN Vivek.

2021-04-08

Deal value: USD 502 million

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