SphitiCap – an early-stage sector agnostic fund today announced their second investment portfolio with $11.5 Million Series A Funding in PayVEDA. PayVEDA is a leading solution-oriented fin-tech player bridging the financial gap (banking &non-banking) in underserved regions of India. The company’s promising growth, the pipeline of strategic acquisitions, and the near plausibility of an Initial … Read more
Gullak. Money, a Bengaluru-based savings and investment app, has raised $1.3 million in a pre-seed round led by Better Capital and Stellaris Venture Partners. Gullak, which was founded in January 2022 by former JusPay executives Manthan Shah and Dilip Jain, as well as Naimisha Rao, allows customers to save tiny sums of money on a … Read more
FlexiLoans, an online lending platform for small businesses, has secured $90 million in a Series B funding round that includes a mix of equity and debt. MAJ Invest of Denmark led the $28 million equity round, while Fasanara Capital of the United Kingdom led portions of the equity and debt rounds. FlexiLoans is a digital … Read more
NAKAD, a supply-chain-focused finance firm, announced on Wednesday that it has secured $7 million in a seed round led by Accel and Matrix Partners India, with AdvantEdge Founders participating. The Delhi-based firm, which provides working finance to India’s supply chain micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSME), said it will utilise the funding to expand its … Read more
equipifi, a fintech company providing banks and credit unions with a white label Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) solution, completed a $12 million Series A funding round. The investment, led by Curql Collective via Curql Fund and PHX Ventures, will enable equipifi to provide financial institutions with BNPL capabilities available through their existing debit cards … Read more
Blume Ventures, GrowX Ventures, IIFL, and Kotak Securities Limited led a $3 million Pre-Series A fundraising round for fintech firm Multipl. The new funds will be used to expand the platform’s investment possibilities and help customers better budget their costs, according to the company. Multipl, founded in 2020 by Paddy Raghavan, Jags Raghavan, and Vikas … Read more
According to paperwork filed with the Registrar of Companies on Monday, Bengaluru-based Perfios Software Solutions secured around $68 million (Rs 525 crore at current exchange rates) from returning investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Warburg Pincus as part of its ongoing Series C round (RoC). Perfios was founded in 2008 by former Aztecsoft founders VR Govindarajan and Debasish Chakroborty as a business-to-consumer personal finance management solution. In 2012, the company shifted its focus to providing banks and NBFCs with insights based on data analysis of bank statements, tax filings, and business financials for credit evaluation, monitoring, fraud, and other services via its platform. The digital solution from Perfios assists financial institutions in reducing turnaround time and improving credit decisions.
Niyo, the consumer neo-banking platform, has raised $100 million in its Series C round of funding. The company will be using the funds to accelerate its mission to transform banking in India, and to provide convenient and hassle-free financial services to digital native customers. This Series C round of funding was led by Accel & Lightrock India with … Read more
Bengaluru-based BharatX, a fintech firm that enables consumer placing platforms to offer credit-as-a-feature, has secured $250,000 (about Rs 1.81 crore) in a pre-Seed investment round spearheaded by prominent angel investors and other industry experts to help the Indian market embrace Embedded Credit. Mehul Nath Jindal, Eeshan Sharma, Shyam Murugan, and Siddharth Venu, who are also … Read more
Slice, a Bengaluru-based financial firm, is the latest unicorn to join the club, with a five-fold increase in valuation to $1 billion in just six months. In a Series B round headed by New York-based investment companies Tiger Global and Insight Partners, the startup, which distributes credit cards targeted towards young professionals, raised $220 million. … Read more
Zenpay Solutions, a fintech startup, announced that it has raised an unknown amount of money from AngelBay and TheStartupLab, as well as angel investors. Zenpay, a fintech firm founded in 2018, provides banking services to small and medium businesses (SMEs) that employ blue-collar workers. Zenpay plans to use the new funds to expand its technical … Read more
