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Cashfree Payments is a platform for all banking needs of businesses in India. It helps businesses collect and make payments through their reliable and customizable API infrastructure that can process about 20 million requests every day. It provides payment collections, vendor payouts, wage payouts, etc. Their clientele includes leading companies like BigBasket, Zomato, Cred, Furlenco, Noise etc. Akash Singh and Reeju Datta founded Cashfree Payments in July 2015. It has raised $40.9M funding from over five rounds, the latest being from SBI in June 2021.

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Year 2015
Founders Akash Sinha, Reeju Datta
Funding $40.9 M
Merchants 1,00,000+
Employees 201-500
Amt Processed $20 B+ annually
Products Payments, Identity
Verification, BaaS
Website cashfree.com

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CredAvenue is a marketplace that offers a one-stop solution for prospecting, evaluating, executing, and monitoring debt. It has a portfolio of 5 products, an end-to-end trade, and supply chain platform, CredSCF; loan origination co-lending ecosystem, CredCo-Lend; bond issuance and investment platform, Plutus; complete debt ecosystem, CredLoan; asset-based scrutinization solution, CredPool. It was founded in 2017 by Gaurav Kumar, who is also the Co-founder and Managing Director at Vivriti Capital. The company has total funding of $90M raised in a Series A round on September 29, 2021

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Year 2017
Founders Gaurav Kumar, Vineet Sukumar
Funding $90 M
Employees 201-500
Products CredSCF, Plutus, CredCo-Lend, CredLoan, CredPool
Volume 12K+ daily transactions
Lenders 500+
Borrowers 1000+
Website credavenue.com

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GetVantage, a Mumbai-based fintech startup, facilitates growing businesses to fund their digital spending by providing revenue-based finance. It is the first of its kind platform in India and Southeast Asia, and offers capital to growth-stage e-commerce entrepreneurs and online businesses in these regions. It has a portfolio of brands across personal care, home care, health foods, fashion & apparel, etc.

GetVantage was founded in 2019 by Amit Srivastava and Bhavik Vasa. Amit Srivastava, having founded and scaled multiple companies in the financial services and technology sector, is currently the head of tech and operations. Bhavik Vasa, CEO, was the Chief Growth Officer at ItzCash. The company has raised $5M over two rounds, the latest being from a Seed round on October 27, 2020.

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Year 2019
Founders Bhavik Vasa, Amit Srivastava, Sachin Tagra
Funding $5 M
Employees 11-50
Website getvantage.co/

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Hyperface helps companies create their credit cards and offers customizable APIs to ensure the credit card suits the business requirements. Through the Hyperface API, fintech companies can manage their entire customer experience in critical areas such as creating loyalty programs, card lifecycle, and driving customer engagement. In addition, they help companies launch their programs in 4-8 weeks compared to a typical 18-24 months. It was founded in February 2021 by R.V Ramanathan, ex-CTO of Juspay, and Aishwarya Jaishankar, a banker-turned-entrepreneur. Hyperface has raised a total funding of $1.3M over two rounds. The latest funding was raised from a Pre-seed round on December 15, 2021.

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Year 2021
Founders Ramanathan RV, Aishwarya Jaishankar
Funding $1.3 M
Employees 11-50
Products Co-branded Credit Card Stack, Pay Later stack
Website hyperface.co

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Founded in 2020, Mahila Money is a microfinance platform for young women entrepreneurs to cater to their business needs. Founded by Sairee Chahal, who previously co-founded Sheroes, Mahila Money aims to fulfill the financial requirements of women who want to conquer their entrepreneurial aspirations smoothly. It also provides a community of other budding women entrepreneurs who can help and guide each other on their business needs. It also offers digital bank account services and enables women to be financially independent.

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Year 2021
Founders Sairee Chahal, Siddhika Aggarwal, Vaibhav Kathju,
Employees 2-10
Services Digital Bank Account Services, Mahila Loan, MM Ring (launching soon)
Website mahila.money

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Multipl is the ‘Plan Now, Buy Later’ alternative to the ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ model, which has been widely popular. It aims at improving the financial habits of consumers who neither save their money diligently nor invest it for accruing better returns. Instead, it parks all your savings in safe instruments and aligns it to ensure that consumers enjoy life debt-free. As a result, Multipl helps users generate up to 5x more value in spending and savings than savings accounts and credit cards. It was co-founded by Vikas Jain, who has previously run a private investment advisory along with Padmanabhan Raghavan and Jagannathan Raghavan, co-founders at mpute.io, which Cisco acquired. It was founded in 2020 and funded by individual investors like Chakradhar Gade, founder of Country Delight, and Harish Narayanan, CMO at Myntra.

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Year 2020
Founders Vikas Jain, Padmanabhan Raghavan, Jagannathan Raghavan
Funding $500,000
Employees 11-50
Services Digital Bank Account Services, Mahila Loan, MM Ring (launching soon)
Website multipl.xyz

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Onsurity is a healthcare company focused on providing comprehensive healthcare solutions to SMEs, startups, and growing businesses. Their monthly subscription, affordable health benefit plans also help food & beverage boutique outlets with hassle-free, beneficial insurance. In addition, it helps create a space where their employees are insured and enable it in a manner that doesn’t hamper organizational growth. It was founded by Yogesh Agarwal and Kulin Shah in 2020 and received Series A funding of $16 million from leading fintech investor Quona Capital and Nexus Venture Partners.

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Year 2020
Founders Yogesh Agarwal, Kulin Shah
Funding $16 M+
Employees 201-500
Services Group Health Insurance, Group Term Life Insurance
Website onsurity.com

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smallcase is a wealth management fintech startup providing a platform to bridge advisors, brokers, and other financial institutions with the investor. They also enable advisors and advisory firms to directly connect with potential investors through their small cases. It was founded in 2015 by Anugrah Shrivastava, Rohan Gupta, Vasanth Kamath and is based out of Bangalore. Smallcase has raised a total funding of $62M over five rounds; the latest round was a Series C round on August 18, 2021.

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Year 2015
Founders Anugrah Shrivastava, Rohan Gupta, Vasanth Kamath,
Funding $62 M
Amount
Transacted
₹12500+ Cr
Employees 200+
Website smallcase.com

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One card is a mobile-first credit card company that offers its customers the service of tracking their credit card usage, due dates, and charges. It also enables them to control various aspects of their credit card, such as credit limit, international usage, rewards redemption, and much more. OneCard is the subsidiary company of FPL Technologies. It was founded in 2019 by Anurag Sinha, Rupesh Kumar, and Vibhav Hathi, who have extensive experience in institutional banks. It received Series A funding from QED partners Sequoia Capital and Matrix Partners at a valuation of $720 million.

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Year 2019
Founders Anurag Sinha, Rupesh Kumar, Vibhav Hathi
Employees 51-200
Partnerships IDFC First Bank,
SBM Bank, Federal
Bank, BOB Financial,
South Indian Bank
Website getonecard.app

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Headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka, Zolve is a neo-bank that allows working professionals and students to buy shares of companies listed in the U.S. exchange. It also provides access to U.S. bank accounts and credit cards without requiring a social security number or U.S. credit history. Zolve aims to focus its products on remittance, insurance, and loans in the pipeline. It was founded by Raghunandan G., the founder of TaxiForSure, which was acquired by OLA Cabs. It has raised $55M over two rounds, with the latest Series A funding announced on October 26, 2021. It is currently valued at $210M.

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Year 2020
Founders Raghunandan G
Funding $55 M
Employees 51-200
Products Credit Card, Account,
Student Loan
Website zolve.com

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