myTVS raises further Rs. 203 crore from Lingotto

myTVS, a leading Indian player in the independent automobile aftermarket business, raised Rs 203 crore from an Exor fund managed by Lingotto.

Lingotto is a wholly owned subsidiary of Exor NV, one of Europe’s leading holding companies. In November 2022, myTVS announced a fundraising of Rs. 487 crore from Castrol India Limited, to explore business and technology collaborations.

The funds will be used to scale up its online-to-offline (O2O) business model, expand its network, invest in technology to enhance its services and spares platform, and expand the country’s automotive aftermarket ecosystem via ‘myTVS’, for two and four-wheeler customers. Additionally, the funds will be utilised for debt repayment including acquisition financing, brand building and international growth..

G Srinivasa Raghavan, Managing Director, myTVS, said, “The additional investment by Exor reiterates myTVS’ successful business model and its leadership position in the growing Indian automotive aftermarket segment. Our end-to-end digital platform is the single largest network in the aftermarket ecosystem that aims to bring structure to the fragmented automotive service sector, and also seeks to empower the livelihood entrepreneurs with technology.”

Exor had earlier invested about Rs. 350 crore in myTVS in 2021. Along with this investment of Rs. 203 crore, Exor’s stake increases to 11.5% in myTVS.

Ashish Kaushik, Partner at Lingotto said, “myTVS is a leading disruptor in the automotive aftermarket space in India. It has an innovative technology-driven business model, which can be leveraged to become a global player. We believe that the highly experienced management team of myTVS with its unparalleled execution capabilities can grow this business for long term.”

myTVS brings together the entire ecosystem of consumers, retailers, service garages and fleet operators onto its digital properties, offering quality, standardized and cost-effective services and parts to B2B and B2C customers through its owned outlets, franchise network, @ home services and roadside assistance. It provides end-to-end solutions to its 3 million customers, 20,000 service garages, 10,000 retailers and fleets in 270 cities across the country.

For this deal, Daiwa Corporate Advisory (DC) was appointed as the banker, Nishith Desai Associates acted as counsel to Exor and Jyoti Sagar Associates acted as counsel to myTVS.