BASIC Home Loan, a Gurugram-based fintech startup, has raised $3.5 million in a Series A round of funding led by Venture Catalysts (VCats) and Gruhas Proptech, an investment platform of Zerodha Founder Nikhil Kamath and Abhijeet Pai of Puzzolana Group.
Abhijeet Pai of Gruhas Proptech said, “We were impressed by the way BASIC Home Loan has used the Phygital approach to keep the cost variable in order to achieve positive unit economics, that too for small-ticket affordable home loans, at which even the biggest of the financial institutions struggle.”
BASIC Home Loan was co-founded by Atul Monga and Kalyan Josyula in 2020. The founders have previous experience of working in companies such as PolicyBazaar, Ola, Lazada, Credit Suisse, and Rocket Internet.
Co-founder and CEO Atul Monga said, “We are working towards making home loans simpler, transparent and BASIC for low-income households. We have had a great start in our journey, creating a strong distribution network in affordable housing hotspots in 15 cities in the first 12 months. We would further strengthen our distribution across 40+ cities along with digitization of credit processes during the next phase.”