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BetterPlace grew 30x in revenue over five years

Pravin Agarwala · Inside the mind of Pravin Agarwala, Co-Founder, BetterPlace | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast · Apr 25, 2021 · at 19:32

Pravin Agarwala, Co-Founder and CEO of BetterPlace, reflects on the company's 5-year growth trajectory.

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“We overall in last five years, we have grown roughly 30 X not accounting the zero one, right?”

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The claim, plainly

BetterPlace grew roughly 30x over the prior five years, excluding its initial zero-to-one phase.

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Assessment

In an April 2021 interview, then-CEO Pravin Agarwala claimed BetterPlace had grown roughly 30x over the prior five years, excluding its initial zero-to-one founding phase. Statutory filings confirm Betterplace Safety Solutions Private Limited generated ₹50.8 crore in operating revenue in FY 2020–21 (FY21), up from nominal initial operating revenues around 2016 following its early 2016 seed round. However, the provided research notes lack the specific statutory baseline operating revenue figure for FY 2015–16 / FY 2016–17 required to compute and confirm the precise multiple.

BetterPlace (Betterplace Safety Solutions Private Limited) recorded FY21 revenue from operations of ₹50.8 crore (total revenue of ~₹52.5 crore) per RoC/MCA filings reported by Entrackr.
BetterPlace completed seed funding in early 2016 ($1M) transitioning out of its zero-to-one phase, but the exact FY16 baseline statutory revenue figure is not provided in the research records.

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