New Delhi, 18 November
2019: CarDekho,
India’s leading full stack auto-tech company, today announced its H1 results
for the financial year 2019-20. The overall revenue of the company achieved a
YOY growth of 92% over the first half of last fiscal year. Revenue of the
company for H1 2019 stood at $28 million.
CarDekho’s unique ecosystem built up helped the company to
retain its competitive edge. The key
benefit of this ecosystem has been the ability to scale up and synergize different
transactional businesses, which service each other such as Used Cars business,
Insurance & warranty business and financial services business.
Despite the major slowdown in new auto sales across the
country which continued to drop for eleven straight months, the company’s New Auto
business segment posted a significant growth of 30%. This came as a result of pre-emptive
moves to build relationships with new car and bike OEMs as well as building
consumer behavior-based content solutions.
Company’s major revenue growth was driven by its Insurance
and Warranty business with 523% YOY spike. During H1 this year, CarDekho’s
insurance venture sold over 12 times the number of policies sold over the first
half of previous year, with 3,60,000+ policies being issued. Insurance business
also added 2 new insurance companies to the platform, further enhancing the
insurer coverage and enabling improved choice for the insurance customers.
The Used Cars business of CarDekho grew by 118% YOY. CarDekho
launched 28 new Gaadi stores during H1, bring the total number of stores to 56
in 17 cities pan India. The company transacted used cars worth over $50 million
during the first half of this year and is expecting this number to increase
significantly in the second half of the year.
The Financial
Services business also posted a strong growth of 135%, leading the initiative
to make car buying easy and convenient for end-customers and used car dealers.
Through CarDekho, used car loans of $56 million were disbursed in H1,
demonstrating the strong traction that the business has generated.
Mr. Amit Jain, Co-founder and
CEO, CarDekho group said, “We have
had a strong year so far, with positive numbers coming from all our different business
segments. What kept us relevant in the automobile industry amidst the slowdown
is the unique business model of new and used car ecosystem. Our newly launched
venture InsuranceDekho is making strong headway thanks to the ecosystem, paving
the way for another success story for us. We continue to progress rapidly, which is
evident in the impressive 92% revenue growth in the first half of the year and
we look forward to a much stronger H2 as well.”
With the growth seen in Used Auto segment complementing the
dominance in New Auto segment, CarDekho has become the go-to platform for both
buying and selling of new and used cars.