JSA, SAM raise $12m for ex-BMR client Faasos in Series C with Sistema, Ru-Net

Indian food-tech startup Faasos has raised Rs 86.2 crores ($12m) in its Series C round of funding from an investor consortium including Singapore based venture capital fund Sistema Asia Fund, Ru-Net, an international fund led by Russian venture magnate Leonid Boguslavsky, as well as Sequoia Capital India, Lightbox Ventures and Evolvence India, reported VC Circle. As per an earlier report, Faasos had raised $30m from Ru-Net along with existing investors Sequoia and Lightbox.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised Sistema Asia Fund led by partner Sidharrth Shankar, principal associate Prakriti Jaiswal and associates Sampurna Nayak and Shweta Gupta.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) acted as the legal counsel to Faasos Food Services and assisted in the drafting and negotiating the share subscription and the shareholders agreement for the transaction. The venture capital team was represented by partner Siddharth Nair along with senior associate Asmita Mishra. Nair had joined SAM after it merged with BMR, which had previously advised Faasos on its fundraisings.

Themis Associates advised existing investor Sequoia Capital in the transaction, led by a team including partner Amritha Salian, senior associate Alimpan Chatterjee.

Link Legal acted for existing investor Ru-Net, led by a team including partner Manish Gupta, senior associate Sanya Haider and associate Ashish Ahluwalia.

Update 3 January 2019: Jerome Merchant and Partners advised Evolvence India Fund II led by a team of partner Murtaza Somjee along with associate Minal Sangatwani.

Founded in 2011, Faasos is an on-demand food delivery start-up which also owns and operates an online food delivery platform and runs on a cloud-kitchen model retails multiple in-house food brands such as Behrouz Biryani and Oven Story Pizza on its mobile application and other food-ordering platforms including Swiggy and Zomato. The company aims for expansion with the fresh funds.

2018-07-31

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Comments

Waaaaow! 26 Sept 2018, 08:14
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The whole of Themis acted for Sequoia and the whole of Link Legal acted for Ru-Net, is it?
Gaitonde 26 Sept 2018, 09:11
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Your stupidity is downright criminal.
Waaaaow! 27 Sept 2018, 09:45
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Thank you, Mr. Gaitonde and sorry for such a 'downright criminal' 'stupidity'. Have taken a note and will keep this in mind.

BUT, in my opinion, what you may have inadvertently missed out in my comment (being crisp and lacking explanations) is the fact that there, possibly, could have been few 'people' who must have have 'advised' the other investors. Now, from a report point of view, again in my opinion, it is only fair to name all of them or to have a 'standard' format and just name the firms.

I am sure:

a) you may find it absurd if a report [for (stupid) example] states - Ms. X and Mr. Y from India, Ms. Z and Mr. A from Pakistan and the USA and UK participated; and

b) you may not like the name of 'only' your firm and 'only' your partner being reported.

Sorry for the rather longish explanation but as you have already established my stupidity; so please cut me some slack.

Accha, abhi bhi kya kabhi - kabhi lagta hai ki tu bhagwaan hai?
Gaitonde 27 Sept 2018, 11:05
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Koi na, dil pe mat le yaar. Tera bhi naam aayega kabhi na kabhi. Ja, maaf kiya stupidity ke liye.

Kabhi-kabhi nahi, main-ich bhagwaan hai. Its not a part-time thing macha.


PS. - "This deal report is based on a firm's press release and may be only partially complete. Some firms or names of advisers may be therefore be missing. If you are or know one of the lawyers who acted on this deal but has not been credited, please leave a comment below (marked not for publication), preferably with your name and email address, and we will update the report."

Hence, your stupidity.
Waaaaow! 27 Sept 2018, 11:45
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Hahahaha - thanks.

"Tera bhi naam aayega kabhi na kabhi" nahi - abhi nahi. Just started out, maccha. So, Delhi durr hai aur tab tak shayad yeh karun bhi nahi. Mujhe bhagwaan complex waala kam nahi karna and then - 'what's in a name'.

"Ja, maaf kiya stupidity ke liye." - humility is a virtue? Oh! sorry - tu to bhaagwaan hai. Lol.

Tu pagal bhagwaan hai kya? Point hi nahi samjha (samjhane ke baad bhi) my comment was not for Kian and team. It was a general remark (for people who released it considering they must have known all the people marked in their e-mails).

Chal chor, tu khush reh, GOD. Alvida!
Questionable? 26 Sept 2018, 08:47
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I thought some other firm acted for Faasos!
seeker 27 Sept 2018, 07:43
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ok? what makes you thing that way?