TechCrunch · Sep 30, 2021
TechCrunch reports Tiger Global backing OfBusiness
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TechCrunch’s report is dated September 30, 2021. It says Tiger Global led a new funding round for OfBusiness, a startup that sells industrial goods and provides credit to small businesses. The company’s co-founder and chief executive, Asish Mohapatra, told TechCrunch that SoftBank and Alpha Wave also participated. The report describes OfBusiness as an aggregator of raw materials and a provider of procurement finance. It says the company uses activity data from its platform to assess loans to businesses sourcing materials and tenders there. Mohapatra described the approach as a move from collateral-based loans toward cash-flow and transaction-based lending. OfBusiness said it planned to use the new funds to expand in India and was considering acquisitions. The report gives no details about the planned expansion or any acquisition. How will OfBusiness expand its operations in India, and what role will acquisitions play?
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Text as retrieved on October 27, 2026; originally published September 30, 2021. The report attributes funding, business, and expansion details to OfBusiness executives; it does not independently establish the company's financial or operational performance. The report gives no details about the scope or results of the planned India expansion or any acquisition.
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How will OfBusiness expand its operations in India, and what role will acquisitions play?
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TechCrunch reports that Tiger Global led a funding round for OfBusiness, with SoftBank and Alpha Wave participating.
Tiger Global led the six-year-old startup’s $207 million Series F round, and SoftBank and Alpha Wave participated
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The report describes OfBusiness as selling industrial goods and providing credit to small businesses.
a commerce startup that sells industrial goods and provides small businesses with credit
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OfBusiness said it planned to use the new funds to expand its operations in India and was considering acquisitions.
The startup plans to deploy the fresh funds to expand its operations in India. OfBusiness is also eyeing merger and acquisitions opportunities
Source-stated
OfBusiness said it uses data from platform activity to support loan underwriting for businesses sourcing raw materials and tenders through the platform.
The platform collects data on user activity that it relies on to underwrite loans to businesses that are using the OfBusiness platform for sourcing raw material and tenders.
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Version 1 · 2026-10-29T16:23:43.235Z
TechCrunch reports Tiger Global backing OfBusiness
TechCrunch’s report is dated September 30, 2021. It says Tiger Global led a new funding round for OfBusiness, a startup that sells industrial goods and provides credit to small businesses. The company’s co-founder and chief executive, Asish Mohapatra, told TechCrunch that SoftBank and Alpha Wave also participated. The report describes OfBusiness as an aggregator of raw materials and a provider of procurement finance. It says the company uses activity data from its platform to assess loans to businesses sourcing materials and tenders there. Mohapatra described the approach as a move from collateral-based loans toward cash-flow and transaction-based lending. OfBusiness said it planned to use the new funds to expand in India and was considering acquisitions. The report gives no details about the planned expansion or any acquisition. How will OfBusiness expand its operations in India, and what role will acquisitions play?
Original source
TechCrunch · Article
Source details
Original source date: Sep 30, 2021 (2021-09-30).
Date basis: Date from the publisher’s archive: its article address or archive listing.
Added to Escape Meridian: 2026-10-29T16:23:43.235Z. First observed: 2026-10-27T19:27:27.245Z. Retrieved: 2026-10-27T19:29:19.740Z.
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Text as retrieved on October 27, 2026; originally published September 30, 2021. The report attributes funding, business, and expansion details to OfBusiness executives; it does not independently establish the company's financial or operational performance. The report gives no details about the scope or results of the planned India expansion or any acquisition.
Open question
How will OfBusiness expand its operations in India, and what role will acquisitions play?
Source-stated
TechCrunch reports that Tiger Global led a funding round for OfBusiness, with SoftBank and Alpha Wave participating.
Tiger Global led the six-year-old startup’s $207 million Series F round, and SoftBank and Alpha Wave participated
Source-stated
The report describes OfBusiness as selling industrial goods and providing credit to small businesses.
a commerce startup that sells industrial goods and provides small businesses with credit
Source-stated
OfBusiness said it planned to use the new funds to expand its operations in India and was considering acquisitions.
The startup plans to deploy the fresh funds to expand its operations in India. OfBusiness is also eyeing merger and acquisitions opportunities
Source-stated
OfBusiness said it uses data from platform activity to support loan underwriting for businesses sourcing raw materials and tenders through the platform.
The platform collects data on user activity that it relies on to underwrite loans to businesses that are using the OfBusiness platform for sourcing raw material and tenders.
Source and contributor context
TechCrunch · Publisher
The publisher is identified here. No individual author has been inferred.
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Media retrieval status: unchecked.
Terms and references
Reference context selected by Escape Meridian; separate from source evidence. Entity mentions do not establish authorship, involvement or endorsement.
Editorial provenance
Version 1. Publication ID: fd3d10cc-5e0d-c81f-30d7-e0f6cede515a.
Prepared by openai/gpt-6-luna; grounding review by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5.
Source check: passed by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 on 2026-10-29T16:23:27.983Z. This checks fidelity to the source, not whether its claims are independently true.
Editorial selection: accept; reasons: bridge_admitted_by_model.
Observation: 58f39d7a4092ea805f50bf4bed8b4e6f5702d0f5440d2103507d085c26f847a7. Source text hash: d5fec685a717d7e3bab7c48ca0b1b5abde1edc77352a361f20e57a83cd5eeefe.
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Publication: fd3d10cc-5e0d-c81f-30d7-e0f6cede515a
attribution — pass: The reading attributes the report to TechCrunch and the investor details to co-founder and CEO Asish Mohapatra, as the source does. The collateral-to-cash-flow remark is attributed to Mohapatra without claiming he said it to TechCrunch; the source says he told Bernstein analysts. Claim 4 says OfBusiness said this, while the article states it in its own narrative, but the substance matches Mohapatra's quoted remarks, so this is not a material misattribution.
SoftBank and Alpha Wave participated, OfBusiness co-founder and chief executive Asish Mohapatra told us
summary — pass: The title, summary and question accurately reflect the article: who led the round, what OfBusiness does, how it uses platform data for lending, and its expansion and acquisition plans. Key terms such as raw material aggregator and procurement finance are explained in plain language. The question follows from the stated plans and avoids inventing details. Omitting the round size and valuation is a stylistic choice, not an error.
OfBusiness operates as a raw material aggregator and procurement finance provider.
date — pass: September 30, 2021 matches originalPublished at day precision, and the source's Thursday announcement is consistent with that date. Later page material, such as the Most Popular sidebar and the author bio covering 2019 to 2025, is neither used nor relied on. The plans are presented as stated plans, not outcomes. The page is not an archive copy.
Thursday’s announcement is the third financing round for OfBusiness this year.
support — pass: Each claim is supported by a verbatim source excerpt. The reading makes no unsupported inferences about benefits or costs. Its limitations correctly note that the report does not independently verify performance and gives no details on the expansion.
The startup plans to deploy the fresh funds to expand its operations in India. OfBusiness is also eyeing merger and acquisitions opportunities
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