Type | Stock exchange |
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Location | Mumbai, India |
Founded | 2012 |
Owner | National Stock Exchange of India Limited |
Currency | Indian rupee (₹) |
No. of listings | 200 (Sept 2019)[1] |
Website | www |
NSE EMERGE[2] is the National Stock Exchange of India's new initiative for small and medium-sized enterprises and startup companies from India.[3] These companies can get listed on NSE without Initial public offering (IPO). This platform helps SMEs and Startups to connect with investors for funding.[4] During August 2019, NSE got the 200th company listed on its SME platform.[1]
Since FY13, 200 companies were listed, raising Rs 3,136 crore collectively on the platform.[5] The First company listed on the SME IPO platform was Thejo Engineering from Chennai[6] and Wonder Fibromats was the 200th firm[7] to be listed on the platform.
SME IPO is specially designed for SMEs and Startups to raise a capital with minimum compliance and cost compare to regular IPO. In case of NSE EMERGE, companies need to take an approval from board, not SEBI.
Many companies have shifted to main board from SME platform, which shows the success of the SME exchange by NSE.[5]
Since FY 2013, Following companies did SME IPO on National Stock Exchange of India's NSE EMERGE.[8][9]