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Meesho’s IPO: Can massive reach translate into profits?
Mint Hyderabad
|December 02, 2025
SoftBank-backed e-commerce firm Meesho comes to the public markets this week confident in a model that has rewritten India’s e-commerce rules—building a vast, low-price marketplace with one of the industry’s lowest average order values (AOVs), even as it continues to test that model’s limits.
Meesho founders Sanjeev Kumar (left) and Vidit Aatrey have raised their stakes, from ₹6.7 crore to ₹15.2 crore, each.
Its ₹5,421 crore initial public offering, or IPO, opening Wednesday, is built around a large ₹4,250 crore fresh issue and a sharply reduced offer for sale (OFS), trimmed by nearly 40% from, from 11.8 millions shares to 16 million shares. Early investors pared back their exits, but founders Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Kumar have increased theirs, from ₹6.7 crore to ₹15.2 crore each a move, hinting at both liquidity needs and belief in the business they are about to list.
This story is from the December 02, 2025 edition of Mint Hyderabad.
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