Urban Company concludes fourth ESOP sale worth Rs 55 crore

Bengaluru: Urban Company has concluded its fourth and largest ESOP sale price Rs 55 crore. A majority of the shares was bought by current institutional traders of the house companies supplier.

The transaction pegged the corporate’s valuation at $2.8 billion, which was larger than the $2.1 billion web price it commanded throughout its Sequence F funding spherical in June 2021.

Over the past seven years, City Firm has issued worker inventory possession plans to 940 present and ex-employees. 550 of those 940 people have vested ESOPs, and had been eligible to take part within the newest secondary sale. Workers and ex-employees might promote upto 100% of their vested ESOPs. However solely 4.4% of the vested ESOPs held by present workers and 10% held by ex-employees had been liquidated. This means that workers (present and former) consider sooner or later success of the corporate, City Firm stated in an announcement.

“In our expertise, such liquidation alternatives strengthen the religion staff members have in ESOPs as a wealth creation instrument,” cofounder Raghav Chandra stated. “Additional, we have now focussed on creating an worker pleasant ESOP programme, with options akin to an train worth of Rs 1, a linear vesting schedule and an infinite maintain interval to train the ESOPs after an worker leaves the corporate.”

City Firm carried out its first ESOP sale in June 2017, the second in December 2018 and the third in August 2020. Throughout the 4 ESOP secondaries, the corporate has facilitated Rs 100-crore price of liquidity for its workers and ex-employees.

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