Paytmmmmm Karooooooo! Most of us have heard this jingle right?

After the much-celebrated #IPO of Zomato, all eyes are now on #PayTM!

So let's not wait and let's understand everything about PayTM in the below thread 👇

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- The DRHP mentions a Rs 16,600 Cr Fundraise
- Split - 50% Fresh, 50% OFS
- Valuation of $25-30 billion targeted from this IPO

Let’s put all of these numbers into perspective here –

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Some big numbers, right? Ok back to PayTM now –

What does it do?

Well, it does a lot of things but at the core of it let's term it a fintech company.

- It started as a digital wallet-based platform focused on mobile SIM top-ups and utility payments in 2010

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- They pivoted to marketing, mobile phone top-ups, payments, e-comm, then a full-scale fintech services company – The avatar that we see today

- The Paytm ecosystem has payments (wallet / UPI), merchant acquiring, credit, savings, broking, wealth management, and insurance.

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Total users - 333 mn
Monthly active users - 50 mn
Merchants - 21.1 mn

RedSeer - Paytm has a payments transaction volume market share of ~40% and wallet payments transaction mkt share of 65-70% in India for FY21