New meat and fish brand Licious, which has been in talks for a bigger subsidizing round, has dispensed new offers to its workers’ government assistance trust under ESOP.

Licious has distributed 400 value shares at an issue cost of Rs 301,211.45 per share worth Rs 12.04 crore to Licious Employees Welfare Trust, administrative filings show. With the new portion, the organization joins Paytm, CRED, FarEye and Nykaa who have either extended their ESOPs pool or offered liquidity choices in 2021.

The move will reinforce the certainty of the Licious labor force that has confronted difficulties during the Covid-19 pandemic. The improvement additionally comes when Licious is supposedly in talks with a few new and existing speculators to bring around $80 million up in a new round at a valuation of $800 million, and reacted to by the organization as market hypothesis.

For Licious, the last financing round came in December 2019 when it brought $30 million up in its Series E round drove by Singapore-based Vertex Growth Fund at a valuation of $300 million.

The foreseen financing round will likewise make Licious the most significant brand in this section which incorporates FreshtoHome and ZappFresh. Bengaluru-based FreshtoHome had brought $121 million up in its Series B round in October 2019 at an expected valuation of $400 million.

Drifted by Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta, Licious has constructed a ranch to-fork plan of action with unlimited oversight on acquirement, preparing and capacity. Licious works in 14 urban areas, including Bengaluru, NCR, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Pune, and Chennai.

The yearly monetary outcome for FY20 documented by Licious shows that it recorded a 90% upsurge in its top line to Rs 131.82 crore in FY20 from Rs 69.43 crore in FY19. Its absolute costs added up to Rs 283.8 crore while misfortunes diminished by 66.65% to Rs 146.3 crore in FY20.