{"id":18889,"date":"2020-02-08T12:18:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T06:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/?p=18889"},"modified":"2021-01-25T10:44:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T05:14:05","slug":"proptech-startup-square-yards-completes-acquisition-of-azuro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/proptech-startup-square-yards-completes-acquisition-of-azuro","title":{"rendered":"Proptech Startup Square Yards completes acquisition of Azuro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Square Yards, one of the country\u2019s foremost property brokerage brands, has acquired <\/span><strong>Azuro<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/property-management-services-at-your-fingertips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rental property management<\/a> platform based in Mumbai<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This acquisition is part of Square Yards\u2019 expansion plans and the whole Azuro team including the co-founders has joined the company. They will continue functioning with the same name under the Square Yards umbrella.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Azuro was founded by <strong>IIT Bombay alumni<\/strong> <em>Ayush Agrawal<\/em>, <em>Altaf Ahmad<\/em>, <em>Sudhanshu Mishra<\/em>, <em>Vishal Chauthmal,<\/em> and <em>Sushant Kumar<\/em> in the year 2016. The startup provides property management and rental services. It takes care of the whole process of finding tenants, getting background checks done, automating rent collection, exits of tenants, and maintenance of the property.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Founder and CEO at Square Yards, <strong>Tanuj Shori<\/strong>, stated that Square Yards is creating an intermediate ecosystem for the Indian realty industry which necessitates acquiring the very best talent and technologies in the country. He also lauded the innovative approach taken by Azuro for gaining market share in the big property management and rentals segment. This deal will naturally add more synergies to the present value chain according to Shori who also added that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuro.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">property management<\/a> and rentals segments present opportunities worth billions of dollars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also opined that these segments are still under-served in the Indian market while outlining the brand\u2019s plans to scale up the business in the domestic market and also worldwide across Australia, UAE, and Canada among other markets. Altaf Ahmad, the co-founder at Azuro, stated that the company will be aiming at leveraging the vast operational resources, reach, and consumer platform (squareyards.com) of the parent brand for entering into the next growth phase. Azuro has been previously backed by Mumbai Angels, Kae Capital, and White Unicorn Ventures. These investors will be joining Square Yards\u2019 cap table post the acquisition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Partner at <em>Kae Capital<\/em>, <em>Gaurav Chaturvedi<\/em>, has opined that this acquisition will aim to capture a huge opportunity in the offline-to-online (O2O) real estate services space.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a detailed report on this read the articles we were featured in:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Outlook: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2UBl1Fk<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">YourStory: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/38byfwa<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Realty NXT: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2vYhCG9<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Economic Times: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2H7qA6c<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inc42: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Uzb8b3<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Business Standard: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2tDA5Hd<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TechCircle: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3bjTSfS<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bw Disrupt: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2uuTTwP<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VCCircle: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/31FNHhJ<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deal Street Asia: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3bo4WIM<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily Research Chronicles: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/387wcJO<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Published Date: 7 February 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Square Yards, one of the country\u2019s foremost property brokerage brands, has acquired Azuro, the rental property management platform based in Mumbai. This acquisition is part of Square Yards\u2019 expansion plans and the whole Azuro team including the co-founders has joined the company. They will continue functioning with the same name under the Square Yards umbrella.\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":18890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18889"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26911,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18889\/revisions\/26911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squareyards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}