IPO boom: 2021 record run rolls on with Nykaa's Rs 5,300-cr maiden offering

41 companies have raised Rs 66,974 cr via IPOs so far this year; just Rs 173 cr shy of all-time high touched in 2017

Next week, one more record will have been notched up in 2021, a year when the BSE Sensex breezed past previously unheard of levels of 50,000 and 60,000. This time, the record scaled will be for the amount of funds raised through initial public offerings (IPO).  

So far in 2021, 41 firms have mopped up Rs 66,974 crore through IPOs, which is just Rs 173 crore shy of the all-time high of Rs 67,147 crore seen in 2017. With FSN E-Commerce Ventures’, or Nykaa’s, Rs 5,300-crore maiden offering, which opens on Thursday, the 2021 tally will cross Rs 72,000 crore.

Nykaa’s IPO