"They are extremely concerned," said the person familiar with the matter. "They have dispersed some tranche of the amount and may not disperse further"
Lenders says will continue to work in good faith with firm to cure its numerous defaults, but reserves rights to enforce credit agreement if Byju's intentionally remains in default
Media reports suggest these employees are contractual and are part of the sales team
The legal battle might also delay IPO plans for its tutoring service subsidiary Aakash Educational Services, according to industry experts
The edtech company and its lenders are mired in a fight over the term loan after the firm breached terms of its debt agreement
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Byju's didn't pay $40 million in interest due Monday on its $1.2 billion loan
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The company chalks up its current debt predicament to aggressive distressed-debt investors who, in its view, were never supposed to be able to buy the loan
The edtech giant has launched Byju's Wiz, a suite of three AI transformer models - BADRI, MathGPT, and TeacherGPT
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The $1.2 billion debt is the largest unrated loan by a startup ever. The once high-flying company led by former teacher Raveendran had been trying to strike a deal with creditors to restructure loan
Several other Indian startups such as Meesho, Swiggy, Byju's, Pine Labs, and Ola have seen similar cuts in their valuations
Lenders may put pressure on Byju's to liquidate US assets to part-repay
Byju's has to make an interest payment on the loan by June 5
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BlackRock reportedly pegged the value of its 2,279 shares in the company at $4,043,471, estimating Byju's fair value at $8.4 billion as of March 31, 2023
However, Byju's recently secured $250 million in fresh funding at a valuation cap of $22 billion