Vy Capital’s offshoot Dharana Capital has bought $50 million worth of secondary shares from employees, early investors and founders. Significantly, this transaction is a part of a $63 million secondary round in which Prosus also participated.

The funding also includes $25 million ESOP buyback from employees in May this year.

The company was founded by Vamsi Duvvuri, she will join the board of Urban Company as a non-executive director, as per the fund’s press statement. Dharana Capital is an India-focused fund which has backed several startups including Zopper, Lentra, NoBroker and Itilite.

Urban Company has granted ESOPs to 1,593 employees and around 784 of them participated in five buybacks, liquidating shares worth Rs 306 crore ($37 million).

Urban Company concluded its last ESOP liquidity program in December 2021 at a valuation of $2.8 billion. The new buyback happened at a valuation of around $2.2 billion to $2.5 billion.

Urban Company currently operates in 62 cities across India, the UAE, Singapore, and The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The company has a partner network of over 55,000 hand-picked service professionals.

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