Steadview Capital, Tiger Global, and Dragoneer Investment Group led a $75 million Series D round of funding for wealth management platform INDmoney. INDMoney, which launched in 2019, offers users to keep track of their finances on a single platform and invest in a variety of financial instruments including as mutual funds, fixed deposits, equities, and … Read more
Novo, the powerfully simple small business banking platform, today announced that the company has raised $90 million in Series B funding at a $700 million valuation. Stripes led the round, with continued participation from existing investors Valar Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Rainfall Ventures, and BoxGroup. This latest round brings Novo’s total funding to more than $135 … Read more
Chennai headquartered Shrinithi Capital Pvt. Ltd. primarily focussing into commercial vehicle and two-wheeler loans has raised Rs. 300 crore as co- lending facility from IndoStar Capital Finance Ltd. IndoStar Capital Finance Ltd. is a 10,000 crore net worth company owned by Everstone Capital and Brookfield investment, Canada. Shrinithi Capital Pvt. Ltd. has announced about the tie up … Read more
India’s largest consumer lending platform for young professionals – EarlySalary has disbursed 2.5 million loans worth Rs. 5,000 crores since its inception. The company was launched in 2015 and has grown 300% since last year. The segment of young professionals is one of the fastest-growing segments in the economy. With less than 5% of the … Read more
Leverage, the study abroad platform that owns LeverageEdu.com, UniValley.com, and UniConnect, among other sites, announced its move into financial services today. The company will offer three services as part of this: overseas remittances, education loans, and international bank accounts. Rachit Juneja, who formerly worked with Constellation Blu (a Blue Ventures partner firm) and KPMG’s Financial … Read more
LivFin India Private Limited, situated in Delhi, has raised $2 million in venture loan from BlackSoil, a significant NBFC and notable credit player. Livfin, a Delhi-based fintech NBFC, has been providing supply chain finance to mid-to-large corporations since January 2018, by setting up programmes to lend to their suppliers/vendors and distributors/dealers/retailers using a ‘Anchor’-based financing … Read more
Annapurna Finance, a microlender, revealed on Tuesday that it has raised USD 30 million in a new investment round headed by Nuveen Global Impact Strategy, an impact investor. According to an official release, the financing would enable it extend its credit portfolio to include women borrowers under the joint liability group and self-help group models. … Read more
In a Series F round of funding, SK Finance, a Jaipur-based NBFC, raised Rs 400 crore (about $53 million) from IIFL Wealth and other new investors. TPG Growth, Norwest Venture Partners, Baring India, and Evolvence India Fund are among the investors in Ess Kay Fincorp, which was founded in 1994 and originally known as Ess … Read more
Ripplr, a tech-enabled distribution and logistics ecosystem platform, has announced a pre-Series B round of funding of $ 12 million. The round included equity and debt investments from Sojitz Corporation and Stride Ventures, as well as existing investors 3one4 Capital, Zephyr Peacock India Growth Fund, and Chand Family Office – Yukti, as well as eminent early- stage angel investors Vivek and Abhay (Licious founders), Aniketh & Ashish (Solution Infini (now Kaleyra) founders). Speaking on … Read more
Paisagrowth, a fintech business, announced today that it has acquired $250,000 in initial funding from GSF, a leading startup accelerator, and other investors. Anurag Tiwari, a former Business Development Manager at Loansimple, Aabhas Tripathi, a former top Strategy Executive at Fitso, and Abhishek Sharma, a former Vice President of Engineering at Loansimple, founded the company … Read more
India’s homegrown Paytm Payments Bank and MoneyGram International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGI), the global leader in the evolution of digital P2P payments, today announced a partnership to enable MoneyGram customers globally to send money in real-time to a Paytm Wallet user in India. This is an important milestone in the digitization of the Global Receive Network. With this … Read more
Minko, a retail financial platform that provides loan facilities to small Kirana and retail shop owners, has secured $1.5 million in a seed round. LetsVenture Founder and CEO Shanti Mohan and Kunal Shah, Founder of CRED, participated in the round, which was led by LC Nueva AIF, an India-domiciled Category II AIF Fund with LC … Read more
Razorpay, a fintech company founded by Lone Pine Capital, Alkeon Capital, and TCV, has secured $375 million in a Series F round led by Lone Pine Capital, Alkeon Capital, and TCV, and plans to extend its B2B payments business to Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines by next year. Existing investors such as Tiger Global, … Read more
Liberty General Insurance, one of the fastest growing General Insurance companies in India today entered into a partnership with CSC e-Governance Services India under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India. Through this agreement Liberty will further strengthen its presence in rural areas across India by selling its insurance products through the CSC network. Initially, the company … Read more
Mesh Payments, a leading corporate payment and spend management platform, announced today that it has raised $50 million in Series B funding led by Tiger Global. Other investors include Entrée Capital, Falcon Edge Capital and existing investors TLV Partners and Meron Capital. Mesh plans to use the funding to continue its accelerated growth, expand its … Read more
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has approved Paytm Payments Bank to operate as a scheduled payments bank, the company announced on Thursday, allowing it to extend its financial services operations. Paytm Payments, as a scheduled payments bank, can participate in government and company RFPs, main auctions, fixed-rate and variable-rate repos, and reverse repos, as … Read more
