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Quikr

Online classifieds / marketplaceIndia
New to Unitard
✂️ Markdown
Peak $1.5 BillionToday
~-62%
from peak
  1. 🦄
    Became a unicorn
    2015
  2. 📈
    Peak valuation
    $1.5 Billion ’15
  3. 💔
    Became a Unitard
    2019
  4. 💸
    Last valuation
    ~$570M
Current status
Lost unicorn status; Kinnevik marked it to ~$885M (2017) then ~$565M (2019); near-defunct with minimal cash by FY2022 and no new equity since 2019.

The rise & fall

6 moments · 2008–2022

The key moments, with employee sentiment along the way.

2008
Founded in Mumbai
Pranay Chulet launches a Craigslist-for-India spanning used goods, jobs, cars and property.
Wikipedia
2015
The peak: India's classifieds unicorn$1.5B
Tiger Global and Kinnevik back Quikr to a ~$1.5B valuation as it races to own every classifieds vertical at once.
Inc42
2017
Kinnevik reaches for the red pen$885M
The Swedish backer marks its stake down to ~$885M as aggressive diversification sprawls and losses mount.
Inc42
2019
Marked out of the club
Kinnevik cuts the valuation to roughly $565M amid allegations of inflated revenue — and Quikr never raises equity again.
Inc42
From the inside · Glassdoor reviews, 2020–22
Glassdoor reviews captured the shrinkage from inside: employees described repeated downsizing, hardest in engineering, and hire-and-fire uncertainty — portraying a business that by the 2020s was merely keeping the lights on.
2022
Down to its last million
By FY2022 the platform is running on roughly $1M of cash, fading toward collapse.
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💬 entries paraphrase anonymous, unverified reviews posted publicly on Glassdoor ↗; dated facts carry their source.

How it happened

Quikr was one of India's largest online classifieds platforms, founded in 2008, spanning jobs, autos, property and used goods. Tiger Global- and Kinnevik-backed, it reached unicorn status around a $1.5B valuation in 2015.

Aggressive diversification, mounting losses and later allegations of inflated revenue soured investors: Kinnevik marked it down to about $885M in 2017 and roughly $565M by 2019-20. With no new equity since 2019 and little cash left by FY2022, the platform faded toward collapse.

Source: Inc42 / Online Marketplaces (unicorn at ~$1.5B 2015 incl. Tiger Global and Kinnevik; Kinnevik markdowns to ~$885M in 2017 and ~$565M by 2019-20 amid revenue-inflation issues; ~$1M cash by FY2022, no equity raised since 2019)

Founders

  • Pranay Chulet
    Co-founder & CEO
    Now Co-Founder & CEO at TarmackLinkedIn ↗
  • Jiby Thomas
    co-founder (left 2012)
    Now Starting up again at Stealth Mode Startup CompanyLinkedIn ↗

Current roles as self-reported on LinkedIn, retrieved 2026-08-19. See our methodology.

Disclosed investors (13)

Historical funding participation; lists may be incomplete and do not establish current ownership or investor losses.

* Lead in a funding round · Crunchbase ↗ · 2026-10-13 · Methodology · Leaderboard

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