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.

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