Zomato, a New Delhi, India-based platform to discover new places to eat and drink, raised $37m in its fifth round of funding.
Backers in the round, which brought the total amount raised to date to $53.5m, included Sequoia Capital and Info Edge (India) Limited.
The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand globally.
Founded in 2008 by Deepinder Goyal, CEO, Zomato is a restaurant guide, listing over 74,500 restaurants in 19 cities across India (Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Indore, Ludhiana), UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah), UK (London, Edinburgh, Glasgow), Qatar (Doha), Sri Lanka (Colombo), Brazil (São Paulo), Turkey (Istanbul, Ankara), Indonesia (Jakarta), and South Africa (Durban).
It currently employs 200 people and is continuing to hire (read hire).
FinSMEs
07/11/2013