Digital payments giant Paytm, one of India’s most important new businesses, plans to raise to $2.2 billion in an initial public offering (IPO), it said in draft papers submitted to the nation’s market controller on Friday.

The Noida-settled firm — upheld by Alibaba (which, close by Ant Financial, claims 36% of Paytm), Berkshire Hathaway, and SoftBank (possesses about 18% stake) among others — said it will give new offers worth $1.1 billion and offer deal worth of $1.1 billion.

Paytm, which was as of not long ago the most important startup in India, has said it might raise to $268 million in a pre-IPO round. TechCrunch revealed recently that Paytm has held discussions with Goldman Sachs and Fidelity to raise a pre-IPO round.

The startup, which rivals PhonePe and Google Pay on the planet’s second-biggest web market, plans to utilize the new capital of $577 million to widen its payments administrations offering and about $269 million to go into new drives and investigate securing openings, it said.

Paytm, which was dispatched in 2009 to assist clients with making digital payments from their telephones and top-up credit, has expanded to a wide scope of administrations in the previous decade. Today it works as a payments entryway, internet business commercial center, ticket booking, and additionally sells protection and digital gold. In a few of the classifications where it works, Paytm is a market chief.

The startup stage, officially known as One97 Communications and last esteemed at $16 billion, has amassed more than 333 million clients, 114.3 million of whom execute yearly, and has onboarded more than 21 million traders, it said in the papers today.

Paytm, drove by Vijay Shekhar Sharma, depicts itself as having “made a payments-drove super app, through which we offer our buyers imaginative and instinctive digital items and administrations.”

A glance at Paytm’s numbers imparted to showcase controller on Friday. Picture Credits: Paytm”We offer our shoppers a wide determination of installment choices on the Paytm application, which incorporate (I) Paytm Payment Instruments, which permit them to utilize digital wallets, sub wallets, financial balances, purchase currently, pay later and abundance the board records and (ii) significant outsider instruments, for example, charge and Mastercards and net banking,”

Paytm’s IPO plans come when the pandemic has fuelled India’s digital economy and neighborhood stock trades are showing developing hunger for shopper tech stocks. Indian food conveyance giant Zomato’s $1.3 billion IPO this week required a couple of hours to be completely bought in by retail and anchor financial backers.

A great deal is riding on a fruitful IPO of Paytm, quite possibly the most praised new business in India. It revealed a united deficiency of $233.6 million for the monetary year that finished in March 2021, down from $404 million out of 2020.

Recently, Paytm’s Sequoia-supported adversary MobiKwik additionally petitioned for an IPO, where it is trying to raise about $250 million. SoftBank-sponsored internet business giant Flipkart, which raised $3.6 billion at $37.6 billion valuations recently, protection aggregator PolicyBazaar, cosmetics retailer Nykaa, and conveyance startup Delhivery, which on Friday declared a $100 million venture from FedEx, may likewise list in the following three to four quarters.

Investors and examiners are bullish on Paytm, whose versatile wallet business has lost radiance lately as UPI — a payments structure supported by banks in India — discovered takers in Google, PhonePe, and others and surprised the market. Be that as it may, Paytm has ricocheted back, experts contend.

“With the coming of UPI, there has been a rising account that scrutinized Paytm’s market initiative,” the investigators composed, alluding to the outstanding development of payments stack created by retail banks in India that has been received by a few firms, including Google and PhonePe (just as Paytm), and which has to some degree brought down the allure of portable wallets in India,” experts at Bernstein wrote in a new report to customers.