{"id":621092,"date":"2023-12-05T10:11:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T04:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=621092"},"modified":"2023-12-05T10:44:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T05:14:13","slug":"the-only-thing-stopping-us-from-scaling-up-is-poor-charging-infrastructure-blusmart-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/the-only-thing-stopping-us-from-scaling-up-is-poor-charging-infrastructure-blusmart-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"The only thing stopping us from scaling up is poor charging infrastructure: BluSmart CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s first all-electric cab hailing firm, BluSmart, which recently clocked 10 million emission-free rides in a little over four years of its operations, is looking to raise additional funds. However, the company has not been able to meet the targetted amount. Anmol Singh Jaggi, co-founder and CEO, shares with Anees Hussain the company\u2019s expansion plans. Excerpts: <\/p>\n<p>You had a fund raising target of $250 million, but could manage to raise only around $42 million. Why? <\/p>\n<p>A. Out term sheet was ready. However, the current and incoming shareholders couldn\u2019t agree on certain terms and conditions, hence, we could not close the round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s first all-electric cab hailing firm, BluSmart, which recently clocked 10 million emission-free rides in a little over four years of its operations, is looking to raise additional funds. However, the company has not been able to meet the targetted amount. Anmol Singh Jaggi, co-founder and CEO, shares with Anees Hussain the company\u2019s expansion plans. Excerpts: You had a fund raising target of $250 million, but could manage to raise only around $42 million. Why? A. Out term sheet was ready. However, the current and incoming shareholders couldn\u2019t agree on certain terms and conditions, hence, we could not close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}