Razorpay, an Indian startup Triples Valuation to $3 Billion with Funding By CIOReviewIndia Team

Razorpay, an Indian startup Triples Valuation to $3 Billion with Funding

CIOReviewIndia Team | Monday, 19 April 2021, 04:07 IST

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Razorpay, an Indian startup Triples Valuation to $3 Billion with FundingRazorpay, an Indian startup that facilitates digital payments, is raising $160 million from Sequoia India, Singapore’s sovereign fund GIC Pte and others, tripling its valuation to $3 billion in six months.

The Bangalore headquartered organization, which assists businesses to automate their payment systems, will use the funds to expand into banking and lending, create acquisitions and add services in Southeast Asia, the company stated in an announcement on Monday. Razorpay Software Pvt, as the company is formally known, has raised a total of $366.5 million so far.

India is in the middle of an extraordinary startup boom, as the coronavirus pandemic drives more activity online and investors see untapped opportunity for profit in the fledgling digital ecosystem. Earlier this month, six startups turned unicorns within the span of days, almost as many as all of 2020. Razorpay is the latest beneficiary, seeing its valuation surge after reaching the $1 billion mark in October.

The startup has seen 300% growth in both volume and revenues during the financial year ending in March, its co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Harshil Mathur stated.

“We process about $40 billion annualized payments volume currently, compared with $12 billion a year ago,” stated Mathur, discussing the funding via a Zoom video conference call. More than 5 million businesses use its payments infrastructure currently, compared with 3 million last year.

Six New Unicorns in Four Days Marks Historic Boom for India Tech.

India’s fintech segment has established a substantial boost after stringent lockdowns, night curfews and restrictions on the operation of malls and supermarkets. Consumers in the country of 1.3 billion people are spending more on e-commerce, internet learning, online gaming and wealth management services.

“Offline merchants are coming online at a rapid pace, and boutique stores and artisanal stores are opening up online, boosting digital payments,” stated Mathur, whose service competes with startups like BillDesk and PayU.

Razorpay was founded in Dec. 2014 by Mathur, now 30, and his classmate Shashank Kumar, 31, from the country’s premier engineering school, the Indian Institute of Technology’s Roorkee campus. The two had gone on to work overseas for Microsoft Corp. and Schlumberger before the idea of starting a payment gateway brought them back to India. Mathur stated the duo had beaten a path to at least a hundred bankers before getting a payment gateway license.

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