As India’s first AI firm to IPO, Fractal Analytics didn’t have a stellar first day on the general public markets, as enthusiasm for the expertise collided with jittery buyers recovering from a significant sell-off in Indian software program shares.
Fractal listed at ₹876 per share on Monday, beneath its difficulty value of ₹900, after which slid additional in afternoon buying and selling. The inventory closed at ₹873.70, down 7% from its difficulty value, lending the corporate a market capitalization of about ₹148.1 billion (round $1.6 billion).
That price ticket marks a step down from Fractal’s latest private-market highs. In July 2025, the corporate raised about $170 million in a secondary sale, at a valuation of $2.4 billion. It first crossed the $1 billion mark in January 2022 after elevating $360 million from TPG, changing into India’s first AI unicorn.
Fractal’s IPO comes as India seeks to place itself as a key market and improvement hub for AI in a bid to draw funding amid growing consideration from a number of the world’s most outstanding AI corporations. Companies comparable to OpenAI and Anthropic have been partaking extra with the nation’s authorities, enterprises, and developer ecosystem as they search to faucet the nation’s scale, expertise base, and rising urge for food for AI instruments and expertise.
That push is on show this week in New Delhi, the place India is internet hosting the AI Influence Summit, bringing collectively world expertise leaders, policymakers and executives.
Fractal’s subdued debut adopted a pointy recalibration of its IPO. In early February, the corporate determined to cost the providing conservatively after its bankers advised it to, reducing the IPO dimension by more than 40% to ₹28.34 billion (about $312.5 million), from the unique quantity of ₹49 billion ($540.3 million).
Based in 2000, Fractal sells AI and knowledge analytics software program to massive enterprises throughout monetary providers, retail and healthcare, and generates the majority of its income from abroad markets, together with the U.S. The corporate pivoted towards AI in 2022 after working as a conventional knowledge analytics agency for over 20 years.
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Fractal touted a steadily rising enterprise in its IPO filing, with income from operations rising 26% to ₹27.65 billion (round $304.8 million) within the yr ended March 2025 in comparison with a yr earlier. It additionally swung to a web revenue of ₹2.21 billion ($24.3 million) from a lack of ₹547 million ($6 million) the earlier yr.
The corporate plans to make use of the IPO proceeds to repay borrowings at its U.S. subsidiary, spend money on R&D, gross sales and advertising underneath its Fractal Alpha unit, increase workplace infrastructure in India, and pursue potential acquisitions.
