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Bloomberg\n <\/p>\n
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October 31, 2025<\/p>\n
\n Lenskart Solutions Ltd. began taking public orders for an initial public offering that could raise as much as 72.8 billion rupees ($821 million) as India\u2019s market for new listings heats up.<\/p>\n
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The eyewear retailer, founded by Indian \u201cShark Tank\u201d judge Peyush Bansal, plans to offer its shares at 382 rupees to 402 rupees each until Tuesday, with the stock scheduled to start trading on Nov. 10. The pricing values Lenskart at as much as 700 billion rupees.<\/p>\n
Lenskart joins the flood of companies going public in one of the world\u2019s hottest IPO markets, which is increasingly being fueled by money pumped in from domestic mutual funds, insurers and millions of retail investors. It comes as another major deal \u2014 Billionbrains Garage<\/a> Ventures Ltd., the parent of online investment platform Groww \u2014 prepares to launch its IPO on Tuesday in an offering that may fetch as much as 66.3 billion.<\/p>\n The IPO values Lenskart at 10 times last fiscal year\u2019s enterprise value to sales, \u00a0prompting SBI Securities Co. to say the valuation \u201cseems stretched.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFuture expansion plans and growth prospects provide cushion to the valuations,\u201d according to Nirmal Bang Securities Pvt., which advised clients to buy the stock with a long-term view.<\/p>\n Lenskart will raise 21.5 billion rupees from new shares, while existing investors are offering as many as 127.6 million shares. On Thursday, the company said it raised 32.7 billion rupees from 147 anchor investors that included funds managed by JPMorgan Chase & Co., BlackRock Inc. and Goldman Sachs<\/a> Group Inc.<\/p>\n Founded in 2010, Lenskart counts Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, KKR<\/a> & Co., and TPG<\/a> Inc. among its backers.<\/p>\n With 2025 proceeds at nearly $16 billion, India is the world\u2019s fourth-largest IPO market, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That follows last year\u2019s record tally of $21 billion.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Bloomberg Published October 31, 2025 Lenskart Solutions Ltd. began taking public orders for an initial public offering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[712,709,100152,59,15073,57,58,31382,711,710,50,713,54739,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-236802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-beauty","9":"tag-fashion","10":"tag-garage","11":"tag-gb","12":"tag-goldman-sachs","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-greatbritain","15":"tag-kkr","16":"tag-luxury","17":"tag-network","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-professionals","20":"tag-tpg","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}