KreditBee, one of India’s top fintech platforms, raised an additional USD 100 million in primary investment from Advent International (“Advent”), one of the world’s largest and most experienced private equity investors, as part of an extension of its Series D transaction. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Japan’s largest bank, and current investors Premji Invest, Motilal … Read more
Money View, an online credit lending platform located in Bengaluru, has raised $75 million in its current Series E round of fundraising led by Apis Partners, a UK-based asset management business that invests in early-stage companies. Tiger Global, Winter Capital, and Evolvence were among the other investors in the round. The fintech business is now … Read more
LenDenClub, India’s peer-to-peer lending network, is assembling a powerful leadership team as it prepares for its next development phase. To that end, the RBI-registered NBFC-P2P has named Nirmal K. Rewaria as its Chief Business Officer – Investments. Nirmal has over two decades of market-tested experience pushing organisational goals in diverse business functions such as business … Read more
DBS Bank India announced its partnership with Gofrugal Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a seller-centric platform offering Omnichannel ERP solutions. The company empowers enterprise customers, including micro, small and medium enterprises and retail merchants, to adopt Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) and enables them to expand their digital commerce footprint. The partnership furthers DBS Bank India’s … Read more
TruCap Finance Limited (TRU) has announced a binding agreement to raise up to Rs. 105 Cr (nearly US$13.1 million) in a combination of equity shares, convertible warrants, and non-convertible debentures from Zeal Global Opportunities Fund. The fund raise would comprise of Rs. 80 Cr of equity and convertible warrants, while up to Rs. 25 Cr. would … Read more
MoneyyApp, a Fintech platform empowering small businesses, digital native solopreneurs and creators in India, has raised an undisclosed amount in pre-seed round from AngelList Early Stage Quant Fund. MoneyApp would use the funds to expand its operations, increase product development and create awareness around the app to get more creators and solopreneurs into its network. … Read more
Mumbai-based Private Equity Fund Xponentia Capital announces investment in Fintech start-up Zype mentored by industry veteran Vivek Vig. Zypeis a new-age FinTech platform which aims toimprove accessibilityto credit for millennials and help them develop sustainable financial habits. Zype’s management team is led by Yogi Sadana – Founderand CEO,who has deepFintech experienceand has held several leadership … Read more
SanKash, the fastest-growing travel fintech offering financial services to the travel market, today announced its plans to hire 500 professionals in India, over the next six months. All these hirings will be to fuel SanKash’s sales and operations feet on the street capability to cater to its existing travel merchant base of 6000 spread across 250+ cities and increase its ground presence at … Read more
PayU, India’s leading online payments solutions provider, today announced the appointment of Arvind Agarwal as its new Chief Financial Officer. In his career spanning over two decades, Arvind has handled a wide range of financial and strategic leadership roles with multiple dynamic consumer-facing multi-billion-dollar tech companies. Arvind joins PayU after a successful stint at Nykaa that saw robust recovery from COVID while … Read more
IppoPay Technologies, a verticalized payments infrastructure company, said in a statement that it has acquired the business of Roamsoft Technologies Pvt Ltd, a fintech focused IT products and services company located in Tamil Nadu, for an undisclosed amount. Roamsoft, headquartered in Chennai, is primarily engaged in the business of developing products and providing technology services … Read more
Cosmo First Limited announced today yet another buyback of fully paid-up equity shares through a tender route from the existing shareholders on a voluntary and proportionate basis. The buyback price is fixed at Rs 1,070 per share (face value Rs 10 per share) representing a premium of 42% over the closing price as on Nov 28th, 2022 … Read more
CRED, a high-trust community of creditworthy individuals, brands, and institutions and CreditVidya – a SaaS company that offers a lending-as-a-service platform, have agreed on terms for an acquisition of CreditVidya by CRED. The transaction is a mix of cash & stock, and closure of the acquisition is subject to requisite approvals. CreditVidya’s full stack platform … Read more
Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited today announced that it will be providing finance to dealers onboarded on actyv.ai, an AI-powered enterprise SaaS platform. KMBL will provide short-term finance under the ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ category for working capital needs of dealers. Sunil Daga, President & Head – Business Banking Assets, Kotak Mahindra Bank said, “Small business … Read more
Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the uncertainties associated with it, and the subsequent shift to digital operations and remote working, businesses have been exposed to new risks related to digital security, employee safety and disinformation. These in turn have led to new incidents of fraud: 52% of Indian companies experienced fraud or economic crime … Read more
Lentra, the class leading Cloud lending platform, has closed its Series B funding round with a transaction value of USD 60 mn, led by existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and SIG Venture Capital with participation from Citi Ventures. Masterkey Capital were the Investment Bankers. The funding will be used for products+platform strengthening and also for … Read more
Moneyboxx Finance Limited- a BSE-listed NBFC that provides small-ticket business loans to micro entrepreneurs in Tier-III cities and below, secured INR 50 crores term loan from SBI for a period of 4 years. The company will utilize the funds for onward lending to the micro-entrepreneurs in the agricultural and allied sectors. This loan from SBI, along with … Read more
