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Flipkart's Valuation Zooms To $12.5 Billion After Helion, IDG Stake Sale

Flipkart's Valuation Zooms To $12.5 Billion After Helion, IDG Stake Sale
Blue Dart Express Ltd. employees sort parcels during the overnight sort inside the company's joint hub with DHL Express India Pvt. in Cargo Terminal 3 at Bengaluru International Airport in Bengaluru, India, on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015. Blue Dart, a unit of DHL Express, is adding a Boeing Co. 757 freighter to its fleet of five in the South Asian country and building warehouses for sellers using portals such as Amazon.com Inc. and Flipkart.com, Malcolm Monteiro, chief executive officer of DHL eCommerce, said in an interview in Mumbai. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Blue Dart Express Ltd. employees sort parcels during the overnight sort inside the company's joint hub with DHL Express India Pvt. in Cargo Terminal 3 at Bengaluru International Airport in Bengaluru, India, on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015. Blue Dart, a unit of DHL Express, is adding a Boeing Co. 757 freighter to its fleet of five in the South Asian country and building warehouses for sellers using portals such as Amazon.com Inc. and Flipkart.com, Malcolm Monteiro, chief executive officer of DHL eCommerce, said in an interview in Mumbai. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images

BENGALURU — Flipkart is now valued at $12.5 billion (Rs 77,000 crore) after Helion Venture Partners and IDG Ventures India sold their stakes in the e-commerce company, according a report in the Economic Times.

Helion had a stake in online electronics retailer LetsBuy, which was acquired by Flipkart in 2012. Helion has sold its entire stake of 0.2 percent, at an estimated worth of Rs 156 crore. IDG had also got a stake in Flipkart after it bought fashion portal Myntra last year. IDG sold a portion of its stake for about Rs 940 crore last month ad still has 0.9 percent left according to the report. Helion declined comment on the developments while IDG Ventures and Flipkart did not respond to email queries.

The buyers are not known. Flipkart is reportedly planning to raise a fresh round of funding which will value it at $15 billion.

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