By Mugdha Variyar Feb 18, 2020 3:10:21 PM IST (Updated)
Bollywood actor Anushka Sharma and Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli have invested in new-age insurance startup Digit, as per filings sourced from business intelligence platform paper.vc.
Bollywood actor Anushka Sharma and Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli have invested in new-age insurance startup Digit, as per filings sourced from business intelligence platform paper.vc.
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Kohli and Sharma together invested Rs 2.5 crore in the startup, as per the filings. The funding by the two celebrities is part of the larger round of $84 million that the company had last month.
In January, Digit Insurance announced that it received approval from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) to raise $84 million from three growth equity investors -- A91 Partners, Faering Capital and TVS Capital.
Digit is a new-age general insurance company started by Kamesh Goyal and backed by Canada-based Fairfax Group. The company previously raised two rounds of funding amounting to $140 million.
The company claims that within 2 years of operation, it now serves more than 5 million customers and has achieved close to $300 million of annualised premium.
The company declined to comment on Kohli and Sharma’s investment.
First Published: Feb 18, 2020 3:09 PM IST
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