Rishi Arora, a long-time executive, was promoted to co-founder level by fast-commerce firm Blinkit two months before to the acquisition by meal delivery giant Zomato.

The company also appointed former Zomato executive Sajal Gupta as the CTO of the company.

Following the departure of Blinkit co-founder Saurabh Kumar in June of last year, Arora was promoted to cofounder. After that, Kumar founded Warpli, a business that offers 30-minute deliveries of everything from groceries to gadgets.

Prior to his elevation, Arora served as senior vice president of operations for Blinkit, formerly known as Grofers, for more than eight years. Gupta, on the other hand, spent five years at Zomato before switching to Blinkit in January.

The announcement of the promotions was made through the internal communication platform Slack, according to the source quoted above. Zomato and Blinkit did not respond to queries sent by.

Zomato is now finalising its $578 million acquisition of Blinkit.