Excelsoft Technologies: Initial public offering to open on Wednesday, November 19, 2025
FinTech BizNews Service
Mumbai, November 13, 2025:Excelsoft Technologies Limited (the “Company”) proposes to open an initial public offering (“Offer”) of its Equity Shares of face value of Rs10 each (“Equity Shares”) on Wednesday, November 19, 2025. The Anchor Investor Bidding Date is one Working Day prior to Bid/Offer Opening Date, being Tuesday, November 18, 2025. The Bid/ Offer Closing Date is Friday, November 21, 2025.
With over two decades of experience, Excelsoft Technologies provides technology-based solutions across diverse learning and assessment segments through long-term contracts with enterprise clients worldwide. Their platforms are cloud-based with open and industry standards-compliant APIs, ensuring scalability across organizations and users. Security and performance are core to their product offerings. Their focus is on assessment market through AI based Assessment & Proctoring Solutions. Qualifications and certification bodies, awarding and credentialing bodies, admission tests councils, corporates & government entities use Saras eAssessment platform and easyProctor remote proctoring product to deliver high-stakes examinations and tests to their end users. Certification agencies such as The Chartered Quality Institute uses the platform to create and deliver online certification exams. For Pearson Professional Assessments Limited, their Company provides a comprehensive assessment platform using which large scale online, high stakes assessments are delivered in organisations including Government Agencies and Universities. Qualifications agencies such as Training Qualifications UK (TQUK) and AQA Education and higher education agencies such as Colleges of Excellence (Saudi Arabia) as well as school assessment boards use the assessment platform to create a variety of examinations on the platform and deliver them online. This includes question creation, test construction, delivery, marking, report generation and smart analytics.
Dhananjaya Sudhanva, Chairman & Managing Director, Excelsoft Technologies Limited at a press conference in connection with the company’s forthcoming Initial Public Offering (IPO).
The Price Band of the Offer has been fixed from Rs 114 per Equity Share of face value Rs10 each to Rs 120 per Equity Share of face value Rs10 each. Bids can be made for a minimum of 125 Equity Shares of face value Rs10 each and multiples of 125 Equity Shares of face value Rs10 each thereafter.
The Initial Public Offering comprises of a Fresh Issue of Equity Shares aggregating up to Rs1,800 million and an Offer for Sale of Equity Shares aggregating up to Rs3,200 million by Pedanta Technologies Private Limited (the Selling Shareholder).
The Offer is being made through the Book Building Process, in terms of Rule 19(2)(b) of the SCRR read with Regulation 31 of the SEBI ICDR Regulations and in compliance with Regulation 6(1) of the SEBI ICDR Regulations wherein in terms of Regulation 32(1) of the SEBI ICDR Regulations, not more than 50% of the Offer shall be available for allocation on a proportionate basis to Qualified Institutional Buyers (“QIBs” and such portion, the “QIB Portion”) provided that our Company in consultation with the BRLM, may allocate up to 60% of the QIB Portion to Anchor Investors on a discretionary basis in accordance with the SEBI ICDR Regulations (“Anchor Investor Portion”), of which at least one-third shall be available for allocation to domestic Mutual Funds, subject to valid Bids being received from domestic Mutual Funds at or above the Anchor Investor Allocation Price.
In the event of under-subscription, or non-allocation in the Anchor Investor Portion, the balance Equity Shares each shall be added to the Net QIB Portion.
Further, 5% of the Net QIB Portion shall be available for allocation on a proportionate basis to Mutual Funds only, and the remainder of the Net QIB Portion shall be available for allocation on a proportionate basis to all QIB Bidders, including Mutual Funds, subject to valid Bids being received at or above the Offer Price. However, if the aggregate demand from Mutual Funds is less than 5% of the Net QIB Portion, the balance Equity Shares available for allocation in the Mutual Fund Portion will be added to the remaining QIB Portion for proportionate allocation to QIBs.
Further, not less than 15% of the Offer shall be available for allocation to Non-Institutional Bidders out of which (a) one third of such portion shall be reserved for applicants with application size of more than Rs 0.20 Million and up to Rs 1.00 Million; and (b) two third of such portion shall be reserved for applicants with application size of more than Rs 1.00 Million, provided that the unsubscribed portion in either of such sub-categories may be allocated to applicants in the other sub-category of non-institutional investors and not less than 35% of Offer shall be available for allocation to Retail Individual Bidders (“RIBs”) in accordance with the SEBI ICDR Regulations, subject to valid Bids being received from them at or above the Offer Price.
All potential Bidders, (expect Anchor Investors), are mandatorily required to participate in the Offer through the Application Supported by Blocked Amount (“ASBA”) process by providing details of their respective ASBA Accounts (as defined hereinafter) including UPI ID in case of UPI Bidders using UPI Mechanism as applicable, pursuant to which their corresponding Bid Amount will be blocked by the Self Certified Syndicate Banks (“SCSBs”) or by the Sponsor Banks under the UPI Mechanism, as the case may be, to the extent of respective Bid Amounts. Anchor Investors are not permitted to participate in the Offer through the ASBA process
The Equity Shares of the Company are proposed to be listed on BSE Limited (“BSE") and the National Stock Exchange of India Limited (“NSE”) (BSE and NSE together, the “Stock Exchanges”).
Anand Rathi Advisors Limited is the sole Book Running Lead Manager (“BRLM”) to the Offer.
