Indian hotel-booking startup Oyo raises $1bn led by Softbank

Japanese group pours $800m into India’s market leader headed by college dropout

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Oyo has emerged the market leader India with more than 125,000 rooms as it sought to streamline room bookings in the country’s disorganized lodgings market.

MUMBAI (NewsRise) -- Indian hotel-booking startup Oyo Hotels is raising as much as $1 billion from investors led by Japan's SoftBank Group, underscoring the growing investor interest in the country's startups.

Oyo, founded by Ritesh Agarwal, a college dropout, raised $800 million in the latest round from SoftBank Investment Advisers and existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Greenoaks Capital, the company said in a statement. It also received investment commitment for an additional $200 million, it said.

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