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Lender Oxyzo's revenue rises 34% to Rs 1,207 crore in FY25; net profit up 17%
Oxyzo Financial Services, the lending arm of SoftBank-backed B2B commerce startup OfBusiness, reported a 33.6% jump in operating revenue to Rs 1,207 crore for the fiscal year ended March 2025, driven by a 32% increase in interest income.
The Gurugram-based company posted a net profit of Rs 339.1 crore for the year, up 16.7% from Rs 290.5 crore the previous fiscal year.
Interest income from loan disbursements contributed Rs 1,140.6 crore, accounting for 95% of Oxyzo's operating revenue. The remainder largely came from fee and commission in 2015 by Asish Mohapatra, Ruchi Kalra, Vasant Sridhar, Bhuvan Gupta and Nitin Jain, IPO-bound OfBusiness operates an ecommerce platform that enables manufacturing companies to source raw materials online. Its catalogue includes steel, non-ferrous metals, chemicals, agricultural products, polymers, energy commodities, textiles, construction materials and majority-owned by OfBusiness, works closely with the parent platform to offer credit facilities to its customers.
Despite the improved financial performance, the company's total expenses rose 46% year-on-year to Rs 754.6 crore in FY25, up from Rs 514.2 crore. Finance costs increased 38.3%, while employee benefit expenses rose 24.3% to Rs 143 crore.
In 2022, ET reported that Oxyzo raised its first external funding round of $200 million at a post-money valuation of $1 billion, making it a unicorn.'We've grown with prudence — focusing not just on scale, but on the quality of our book, our risk practices, and our deepening presence across core sectors of the Indian economy,' Kalra, CEO and cofounder, said in a statement. According to data from Tracxn, OfBusiness holds a 67.5% stake in Oxyzo, while Alpha Wave Global owns around 7.1% and Tiger Global holds about 4.3%.
OfBusiness converted into a public entity in January, a key step toward its planned initial public offering, which is expected to raise between $750 million and $1 billion when it happens, according to reports.
