IPO · Enterprise Software & IT
NoPaperForms gets Sebi nod for IPO
By Startup Enthusiast ·
- Date
- Company
- NoPaperForms
- What it does
- Education-focused SaaS company
- Kind
- IPO
- Amount
- ₹500 Cr to ₹600 Cr
- Founded
- 2017
- Sector
- Enterprise Software & IT
What they do
NoPaperForms is an education-focused SaaS company that owns the Meritto brand
What happened
It received Sebi approval for an IPO expected to raise ₹500–600 Cr at a valuation of about ₹2,000 Cr
Why it matters
In FY26, its profit after tax jumped 6.3 times to ₹11.9 Cr on revenue of ₹115.7 Cr
The details
- NoPaperForms received SEBI approval for its IPO in March 2026.
- The company had filed draft IPO papers confidentially with SEBI in November 2025.
- An updated DRHP has not yet been filed.
- The IPO is expected to raise ₹500 Cr to ₹600 Cr at a valuation of about ₹2,000 Cr.
- Book-running lead managers are IIFL Capital Services and SBI Capital Markets.
- In FY26, the company posted a profit after tax of ₹11.9 Cr, up 6.3 times from ₹1.9 Cr in FY25.
- Operating revenue grew 25% to ₹115.7 Cr from ₹92.3 Cr in FY25.
- Adjusted EBITDA doubled to ₹12.9 Cr, with a margin of 11.16%.
The bigger picture
- The company's profit after tax grew 6.3 times in FY26, while revenue rose 25%.
- It filed IPO papers confidentially, meaning the draft was not made public initially.
- The IPO size of ₹500–600 Cr is large relative to the company's current revenue of ₹115.7 Cr.
About the business
- NoPaperForms is an education-focused SaaS company and the parent of Meritto.
- Its products include Meritto (admissions & enrolment software), Collexo (fee management & payments), and Mio AI (AI products).
- Revenue models are subscription- and consumption-based for Meritto and Mio AI, and subscription- and transaction-based for Collexo.
- Its customers are educational institutions such as universities, colleges, schools, coaching centres, edtech firms, consultants, and exam bodies.
- In FY26, it had 1,183 customers in India and other countries.
- Fee payments processed through its platforms in FY26 totalled ₹3,179.5 Cr, up from ₹1,540.6 Cr two years earlier.
- It facilitated 1.86 billion personalised communications and centralised 148.76 million student enquiries.
- The company was founded in 2017 and evolved from NoPaperForms (2017) to Meritto (2018–2021), Collexo (2022), and Mio AI (2025).
The deal
- Type
- IPO
Founders
- Naveen Goyal, CMD and CEO
More on NoPaperForms
- NoPaperForms files updated DRHP for ₹375 crore IPO5 September 2026 · IPO · ₹375 crore
- NoPaperForms posts 6.3x profit jump in FY2618 August 2026 · Results
- NoPaperForms files confidential DRHP for IPO8 November 2025 · IPO
- NoPaperForms files for IPO, targets INR 500-600 Cr4 July 2025 · IPO · INR 500-600 Cr
- NoPaperForms starts IPO process, targets INR 500–600 Cr5 March 2025 · IPO · INR 500 Cr to INR 600 Cr
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