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Startup Deep Dive : LogiNext — how a $100 million startup sold itself for $250,000

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In January 2020, LogiNext closed a $39 million round that valued it at roughly $100 million and pulled in Tiger Global and Steadview Capital as backers. Four and a half years later, in August 2024, the company’s board voted to sell everything it owned — software, subsidiaries, customer contracts — to a Delaware entity called Stellation Inc for $250,000.

That is not a typo. A Mumbai-founded logistics SaaS firm that had raised roughly ₹420 crore ($50 million, as reported by Inc42 and Inshorts, August 2024) across two rounds, signed up more than 100 enterprise clients, and was once profiled as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the world, wound itself down for less than the price of a Mumbai apartment. This piece traces how LogiNext got from Coca-Cola’s delivery routes to a liquidation resolution — and what its cap table can teach any founder about what “backed by Tiger Global” actually means once growth stalls.

Quick facts

Company LogiNext Solutions Pvt Ltd
Founded 2014, Mumbai (later headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, alongside the Mumbai office)
Founder(s) Dhruvil Sanghvi (CEO) and Manisha Raisinghani, both Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Businesses LogiNext Mile — SaaS for route planning, real-time tracking, dispatch and last-mile delivery automation, sold to retail, e-commerce, CPG and food and beverage enterprises
Latest verifiable FY revenue ₹7 lakh in FY21 (Indian entity, MCA filing, as reported by Tracxn and Inc42) — down from ₹13.8 crore in FY20
Latest verifiable FY profit/loss Net loss of ₹75 lakh in FY21 (Indian entity, MCA filing)
Listed Private, never listed; wound up and its assets sold in August 2024
Market value / last valuation Reported at roughly $100 million after the January 2020 round; assets later sold for $250,000 (about ₹2 crore) in August 2024
Key shareholders Tiger Global Management (reported to hold about 50%) and Steadview Capital; earlier backer Paytm (One97 Communications) exited in 2020

What they do

LogiNext built and sold LogiNext Mile, a software-as-a-service platform that plans delivery routes, tracks vehicles and field staff in real time, and automates dispatch for companies that move goods to end customers or franchise outlets. Its buyers were not consumers but enterprises with delivery-heavy operations: retail chains, e-commerce players, consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, and quick-service restaurant (QSR) networks that needed to know where a delivery was, when it would arrive, and how to route the next one efficiently. The pitch was straightforward — replace spreadsheets, radio calls and manual dispatch boards with a platform that could plan and re-plan thousands of last-mile stops a day. At its widest reach, LogiNext said it served more than 100 enterprise clients across multiple countries, with one of its clearest public reference deployments being AmRest, the master franchise operator for KFC, Pizza Hut, Burger King and Starbucks in Central Europe, which rolled out LogiNext’s platform across more than 2,000 outlets for last-mile deliveries (PR Newswire, 2021).

The origin

Dhruvil Sanghvi and Manisha Raisinghani knew each other from Carnegie Mellon University, where they overlapped around 2009-2010. Sanghvi went on to spend roughly four years in management consulting at A.T. Kearney and Deloitte, advising large enterprises on operations; Raisinghani built up experience in data analytics. It was only in the second half of 2013, at a Starbucks in Manhattan, that the two actually sat down to build something together, according to an account carried by Forbes India’s 30 Under 30 profile of Sanghvi. Their shared observation was simple: logistics in emerging markets was unreliable not because companies lacked delivery fleets, but because nobody running those fleets had visibility into where anything actually was in real time. That gap — invisible delivery networks — became the founding thesis, and LogiNext was incorporated in 2014 to build software that made last-mile movement visible and plannable, first for track-and-trace use cases and later for full route optimization.

The struggle years

The two hardest stretches in LogiNext’s decade were about strategy and control, not a single dramatic collapse — which is part of why the ending caught outside observers off guard.

None of this was fatal on its own. Enterprise SaaS companies pivot, scale awkwardly and see early investors exit. What made LogiNext’s version of these years unusual was how much control had quietly moved to two financial investors well before the business hit real trouble.

The turning point

The turning point was not a product failure or a lost customer. It was a boardroom vote. On 8 July 2024, LogiNext’s board passed a resolution to stop using the LogiNext brand, transfer all client contracts, software, hardware and subsidiaries to Stellation Inc, a Delaware-registered entity, and begin winding up the company. The sale price was $250,000. Of the roughly $8-9 million still sitting in LogiNext’s reserves, most was returned to Tiger Global and Steadview, with about $2 million kept aside as working capital for the transition (reported by ET tech and NewsBytes, August 2024). Co-founder Manisha Raisinghani opposed the sale, arguing the company could fetch a higher price; Tiger Global and Steadview, which together controlled the board, backed the transaction because Stellation was also assuming LogiNext’s liabilities. The numbers either side of that one vote tell the whole story: a company valued at about $100 million in January 2020, wound up for a quarter of a million dollars four and a half years later.

The money behind it

LogiNext raised in exactly two institutional rounds over its life, for roughly $50 million (about ₹420 crore, as reported by Inc42 and Inshorts, August 2024) in total.

LogiNext never disclosed a valuation event after January 2020. The $100 million figure from that round is the last one on record, meaning the company’s implied value fell by more than 99% between that mark and its August 2024 liquidation — a decline not formally priced by any funding round in between, since none happened.

How it makes money

LogiNext operated a fairly conventional enterprise SaaS model for its category, layered on top of usage that scaled with a client’s delivery volumes.

The numbers

Audited, publicly filed financial data for LogiNext’s Indian entity is available only for two consecutive years before its filings effectively went dark; the company’s Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) status is now recorded as struck off, and no later Indian-entity P&L has surfaced in public filings. The table below carries only what was verifiable in this session; later years are not invented.

Fiscal year Revenue (₹ crore) Net profit / (loss) (₹ crore)
FY20 13.8 Not disclosed in sources reviewed
FY21 0.07 (₹7 lakh) (0.75)
FY22 onward Not available — MCA filings not located; entity later struck off Not available

Where the money comes from

The risks

The takeaway

The lesson in LogiNext is not really about logistics software. It is about what a “$100 million valuation” and “backed by Tiger Global” actually buy a founder, and what they cost. A large round from marquee investors can fund growth, but it also transfers real control: when growth stalls and there is no next round to paper over the gap, the shareholders who hold the votes decide the ending, not the people who built the product. Manisha Raisinghani’s objection to the Stellation sale went on record precisely because she no longer held the votes to stop it. Any founder reading a term sheet that hands financial investors a combined stake near or above 50% is not just pricing dilution — they are pricing away their own veto on the day the company’s fortunes turn, which is exactly the day that vote matters most.

Frequently asked questions

What did LogiNext actually sell?

A software-as-a-service platform, LogiNext Mile, used by enterprises for route planning, real-time delivery tracking and dispatch automation, sold to retail, e-commerce, CPG and food and beverage companies rather than to individual consumers.

Who founded LogiNext and when?

Dhruvil Sanghvi and Manisha Raisinghani, both Carnegie Mellon University alumni, founded LogiNext in 2014 after coming together in late 2013 around the idea that emerging-market logistics networks lacked real-time visibility.

How much funding did LogiNext raise in total?

Approximately $50 million (about ₹420 crore) across two rounds: a $10 million Series A from Paytm in September 2015, and a $39 million Series B from Tiger Global Management and Steadview Capital in January 2020, which valued the company at roughly $100 million (Inc42, YourStory, Inshorts).

Why did LogiNext shut down?

Public reporting does not point to a single cause. LogiNext’s board, controlled in large part by Tiger Global and Steadview Capital after 2020, voted on 8 July 2024 to sell all assets to Stellation Inc for $250,000 as part of a winding-up process, with co-founder Manisha Raisinghani objecting that a higher price was achievable. The company’s own Indian-entity revenue had also collapsed in its most recent available filings, from ₹13.8 crore in FY20 to ₹7 lakh in FY21.

Is LogiNext still operating?

No. The LogiNext brand was discontinued after the August 2024 asset sale, with client contracts transferred to Stellation Inc; LogiNext’s Indian corporate entity is recorded as struck off in company registry data reviewed via Tracxn.

Sources

Figures are as of September 2026. Currency converted at $1 ≈ ₹96.0 as of 18 September 2026 (Trading Economics).

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