Koo at a crossroads: why India’s home-grown microblogging platform is facing difficult choices

Mayank Bidawatka, co-founder of Koo, wrote a long LinkedIn post on September 15 addressing reports about the homegrown microblogging platform’s struggles to raise funds and how it is exploring merger and acquisition (M&A) options. He had a few points to make: Koo was caught up in the funding winter, when only break-even or early-stage startups were “lucky” enough to raise funds, that too at low valuations or heavy markdowns.If it had just “6