Blue Tokai Coffee gets a Verlinvest flavour

Verlinvest is set to invest Rs 200 crore in Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters at a Rs 1,200-crore valuation. Existing investors Hemendra Kothari’s family office and Anicut Capital are also expected to participate. This will be Blue Tokai's largest funding round as it competes with Starbucks, Tim Hortons, and other cafes in India's expanding coffee industry.