Shiprocket nets Rs 727.4 Cr from anchor investors

Shiprocket raised Rs 727.4 crore from anchor investors ahead of its listing, allotting about 7.5 crore equity shares at Rs 97 apiece, the top of the Rs 92 to Rs 97 price band. The public issue opens today, 12 August, and closes on 14 August.

Domestic institutions took most of it. Thirteen mutual funds across 31 schemes picked up over 5 crore shares, or 66.8% of the anchor book, including HDFC Mutual Fund, Nippon Life, Kotak Mahindra, Mirae Asset and SBI Mutual Funds. Insurance and pension money accounted for 53.4 lakh shares, or 7.12%, with ICICI Prudential Life, Tata AIG Life, Axis Max Life and Edelweiss Life on the list. Global participation came from Goldman Sachs, the New York State Teachers Retirement System, PGIM, Societe Generale and Susquehanna Pacific.

The total issue is Rs 1,617 crore, made up of a fresh issue of Rs 885.5 crore and an offer for sale of Rs 732 crore, valuing Shiprocket at about Rs 7,000 crore at the upper band. That is roughly 30% below the updated DRHP, which had proposed Rs 1,100 crore fresh and Rs 1,242 crore OFS. Cofounders Saahil Goel and Gautam Kapoor are selling Rs 61 crore each in the OFS and Vishesh Khurana Rs 20 crore, with Lightrock and Tribe Capital also participating. zane.marketing has previously covered the size trim and the cap table returns.

The number worth watching is not the anchor total but the two thirds of it sitting with domestic mutual funds. That is mandated, slower money. It shapes what the register looks like in the weeks after listing, compared with an anchor book weighted towards foreign funds that can rotate out quickly.

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