Billionaire investor Radhakishan Damani, founder of Avenue Supermarts (DMart), has made a fresh and big investment of around Rs 90 crore in popular eyewear retailer Lenskart Solutions in a pre-IPO (initial public offering) funding round, officials close to the matter said on Friday.

The investment has been made before Lenskart makes its first public offering, which is expected to open for public subscription next week. The eyewear company is seeking to raise Rs 2,150 crore by issuing equity shares, along with it, promoters and investors would offload 13.22 crore equity shares, according to the Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP). As a part of the OFS, promoters — Peyush Bansal, Neha Bansal, Amit Chaudhary and Sumeet Kapahi; investors — SVF II Lightbulb (Cayman) Ltd, Schroders Capital Priv

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