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<ul><li>Paytm now offers hotel booking with its acquisition of NightStay. </li><li>Earlier in January, Paytm had announced its entry into food delivery. </li><li>It already operates in the ticketing business with Paytm Movies, e-commerce sector with Paytm Mall.</li></ul>Paytm is one of the frontrunners of Indian startups and a leader in the digital payments in India. But it’s also competing head-on with almost every other business in the e-commerce space. In the last one month, the company has entered two new major segments – hotel booking and food delivery. On January 30, Paytm announced the acquisition of <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/newsbuzz/paytm-enters-hotel-booking-business-buys-nightstay/articleshow/67748857.cms">NightStay</a>, a four-year platform which helps users book hotel rooms and offers last minute deals. While MakeMyTrip and Oyo Rooms have been dominating the <keyword id="864750" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Hotel-bookings">hotel bookings</keyword> space, the recent acquisition of NightStay will help Paytm become a one-stop shop for its over 230 million users and the potential ones. Paytm already competes with MakeMyTrip in offering flight and train tickets. Vijay Shekhar Sharma took on BookMyShow when Paytm started selling movie tickets in 2016. <a href="https://techcircle.vccircle.com/2018/10/30/kept-on-its-toes-by-paytm-bookmyshow-slips-deeper-into-the-red-in-fy18">BookMyShow</a> revenue growth dropped to 27% in 2016-17 from 85% a year earlier. Earlier in January, Paytm had also announced its<a href="https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/paytm-joins-hands-with-zomato-to-offer-in-app-food-delivery-service/story/310921.html"> partnership</a> with foodtech unicorn Zomato to enter the food delivery segment and take on rival Swiggy. With the Paytm Mall, the company has a foot in online retail- from apparels and accessories to electronics, footwear, and fitness equipments to name a few. However, its success has been limited. Even with massive cashbacks and discounts, Paytm Mall had not been able to make an impact yet with reports reflecting that the company’s losses went up by <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/newsbuzz/paytms-parent-company-one97-communications-widens-net-loss-to-rs-1490-4-cr/articleshow/66402994.cms">270%</a> last year mainly because of its e-retail arm. The <keyword id="1705292" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indian-e-commerce">Indian e-commerce</keyword> segment is already crowded with Amazon and Walmart fighting it out, and now, Reliance Industries also planning to enter the market. While there were rumours of the company planning to scale down its e-commerce operations, founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma had told <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/retail/paytm-has-no-plans-to-leave-mall-business-vijay-shekhar-sharma/articleshow/67681312.cms">ET</a> that “it has no plans to leave the mall business”. See Also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/amazon-walmart-owned-flipkart-set-back-by-new-e-commerce-rules-that-help-mukesh-ambanis-reliance-retail/articleshow/67751026.cms">Mukesh Ambani may be the surprising winner from India's new rules hurting Amazon and Walmart</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/indias-new-e-commerce-policy-has-rivals-flipkart-and-amazon-teaming-up-to-counter-the-new-directive-and-the-republic-day-sale-will-probably-be-their-last/articleshow/67366996.cms">India’s new e-commerce policy has rivals Flipkart and Amazon teaming up to counter the new directive — and the ‘Republic Day’ sale will probably be their last</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/in-india-amazons-fight-is-not-just-with-flipkart-but-with-paytm-google-pay-and-truecaller/articleshow/67456165.cms">In India, Amazon's fight is not just with Flipkart, but with PayTM, Google Pay and Truecaller</a>

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<keyword id="189262" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="private-equity-funding">Private equity funding</keyword> is on a decline from last year, says a report by global research firm <keyword id="6361649" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Goldman-Sachs">Goldman Sachs</keyword>. As per the report, it declined by 25% year-on-year and fell to $1.9 billion in 2016, as compared to $2.5 billion in 2015. Even though the number of deals went up by 52% year-on-year in 2016, it was the average deal size that fell by 51% to come down to $4.3 million. Capital flows, which stood at $4bn in 2015 Q3 at peak, started to recede afterwards. 
 This slowdown has forced <keyword id="770060" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Indian-start-ups">Indian start-ups</keyword> to lower their cash burn rates while focusing on restructuring operations so that they can improve profitability. 
 
However, the companies that have already attained a balance in their operations are not as such affected by this slowdown and are able to smoothly raise their capital. 
 
"The newer ones are finding it more difficult," said the report. "Forced consolidation has led players with stronger balance sheets/scale to acquire the weaker companies in some cases," it added. 
 As per the report dated June 15, 2016, <keyword id="1705292" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Indian-e-commerce">Indian e-commerce</keyword>, on the other hand, has received a healthy capital inflow, climbing to over $8.4 billion in 2015 as compared to $6 billion in 2014. 
 
The international e-commerce market is expected to grow at 20% in the coming three years with China and India being the major influencers. By 2020, the e-commerce space in India would touch $100 billion, driven by an increase in consumers' willingness and increase in access to mobile internet. 
 
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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Getty/Chip Somodevilla</div></div></div><ul><li><a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/amzn-stock">Amazon</a> is upping its investment dollars in India in order to compete with Walmart, which just bought Flipkart, the top Indian e-commerce company. </li><li>This is part of a "Cold War" in the Indian e-commerce space, a team of Barclays analysts wrote. </li><li>The Indian e-commerce market is expected to explode within the next few years.</li><li><a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/amzn-stock">Watch Amazon trade in real time here.</a> </li></ul><a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/amzn-stock">Amazon</a> just struck back against <a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/wmt-stock">Walmart</a> in the battleground that is the Indian e-commerce market. Typically Amazon is known for disrupting entire industries, but it has recently set its sights on a laundry list of countries to disrupt - countries that have currently unscaled and young e-commerce industries - <a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/amazon-stock-price-notorious-disrupting-industries-now-eyeing-entire-countries-2018-5-1025753496">according to the Morgan Stanley note</a>. Enter India.The e-commerce giant just increased its entire capital investment in India from $5 billion to $7 billion, according to Barclays. That's up from $2 billion in 2016. The figures for capital investment encompass both capital expenditures and operating expenses. "The recent Walmart/Flipkart announced merger likely steps up the competitive dynamics above what was already an emerging Cold War between two behemoths," a team of Barclays analysts wrote in a note out to clients. Back in May, <a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/walmart-stock-price-flipkart-majority-stake-2018-5-1023879080">Walmart acquired Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart</a>. Walmart CEO Douglas Macmillan has said the market is "one of the most attractive retail markets in the world, given its size and growth rate." And this chart from Statista chart shows just how much potential there is in the years ahead.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Statista</div></div></div>Amazon's dollars will go to work in Amazon Prime, logistics, video, among other areas, Barclays said. It launched its core e-commerce platform, Amazon Marketplace, in India in 2013 and Amazon Prime in 2016. It has also opened of more than 60 fulfillment centers in the country, according to <a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/amazon-stock-price-notorious-disrupting-industries-now-eyeing-entire-countries-2018-5-1025753496">a note from Morgan Stanley</a>. But Walmart isn't the only competition Amazon must face. Because of India's promising e-commerce outlook, other companies are emerging and spending marketing dollars to gain market share."We expect the India ecommerce space to remain highly competitive as many companies deploy "scorched-earth" strategies in a bid to gain market share, as we've seen across many new digital markets in hyper growth phase," Barclays said. <a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/wmt-stock"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Markets Insider</div></div></div></a> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-having-dog-affects-your-body-brain-pet-oxytocin-animal-baby-2018-5">What having a dog does to your brain and body</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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