<p>The founder and CEO of the Ed-tech company, Byju Raveendran, has promised in a letter to restructure the board and create an outside committee to supervise the distribution of cash in the face of growing losses and unrest.</p>
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<p>The action is in response to a proposal by a group of shareholders for an extraordinary general meeting of the business this week with the aim of removing Byju and his relatives from the director board.</p>
<p>He said that the rights issue of the corporation has a complete subscription. A corporation may raise money by offering shares to current shareholders in proportion to their present ownership via a rights issue.</p>
<p>According to the corporation, the $200 million fundraising would provide it with enough cash to cover its present obligations and fuel expansion. He said in a letter that this rights issue would contribute to the preservation and growth of wealth for all shareholders.</p>
<p>“I am aware that taking part in this rights issue might seem to be a no-brainer. But this is the only practical alternative available to us right now to stop irreversible value loss,” he said, adding that it is the correct decision.</p>
<p>As the “most equitable way of raising capital without needing to ascribe a valuation,” he advocated the rights issue. According to him, this is a tried-and-true component of company capital raising.</p>
<p>The letter discounted valuation and emphasized value preservation, saying that the ownership of the firm remains the same before and after a rights issue.</p>
<p>According to the founder, he prioritized the needs of the business before his own. As the company’s biggest shareholder and financial contributor, it would have served my interests to set a high price for this rights offering. However, that would not be ideal for the business.”</p>
<p>In addition, he promised to reorganize the board and name two non-executive directors with the founder and shareholders’ approval. This will follow the financial year audit for 2023, which we hope to conclude by this quarter’s end. “I believe this will be in the best interest of the company and allow for greater engagement with shareholders,” he said.</p>
<p>A third-party organization will oversee the use of cash collected via the rights issue to guarantee transparency. He said in his letter that this agency would provide a quarterly report to all shareholders, together with comments from the Board, within 45 days after the end of the quarter.</p>
<p>A few special interests, according to Byju Raveendran, are characterizing his relationship with the board as antagonistic. “Let me be unequivocal in stating that such narratives could not be further from the truth,” he said.</p>
<p>A number of influential investors at Byju’s have reportedly requested an emergency general meeting for this Friday in order to remove the company’s founder and CEO, Byju Raveendran, as well as his family, due to mismanagement and failures. Together, the stockholders of EGM own more than 30% of Byju’s.</p>
<p>The notification included allegations of financial mismanagement, value degradation as a result of management’s claimed failure to uphold the company’s legal rights, and substantial information concealment as the grounds for pursuing the expulsion.</p>
<p>Prosus, Peak XV Partners, General Atlantic, Sofina, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Owl Ventures, and Sand Capital, all based in South Africa, had earlier released a unified statement calling for a change of leadership at the firm.</p>
