Fintech startups

The decline comes in the backdrop of mobile wallet companies remaining shut out of Aadhaar KYC to sign up new customers in the past 2-3 months. Photo: Mint

Mobile wallet transactions decline in November: RBI

2 min read . 08 Jan 2019

Anup Jain, managing partner at Orios Venture Partners. Photo: Ajay Kumar Gautam

Orios’ reverse pitch for fintech startups: Target the CIBIL absent

1 min read . 26 Dec 2018

Truecaller Pay head Sony Joy. Truecaller payment service allows instant transfer of money using any UPI-supported bank.

Truecaller Pay to go live with Bharat Bill Payments Service in December

2 min read . 29 Nov 2018

Cred founder Kunal Shah. Cred will initially offer its credit card product to customers with credit scores of at least 750 while others will be waitlisted. Photo: Mint

Cred to launch product for credit card users

2 min read . 27 Nov 2018

Satyen Kothari, founder of Mumbai-based fintech startup Cube Wealth. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

Cube Wealth founder Satyen Kothari’s reverse pitch for startups: Solve a problem, be unique

1 min read . 24 Oct 2018

Archit Gupta, co-founder and chief executive officer, ClearTax run by Defmacro Software Pvt. Ltd.

ClearTax raises ₹400 crore from Composite Cap, others

2 min read . 23 Oct 2018

Ajmera Group has already picked up stakes in three startups and plans to invest in another seven by the end of June 2019. Photo: iStockphoto

Ajmera Group to invest $10 million in tech startups

1 min read . 23 Oct 2018

Future Group chief executive Kishore Biyani. Photo: Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint

Future Enterprises acquires 55% stake in LivQuik

1 min read . 11 Oct 2018

Founded in 2016 by Kumar Srivatsan and Sriram Chandramouli, OptaCredit uses proprietary scoring techniques along with AI to extend medium-term loans to uncategorized or unlisted employees.

OptaCredit in talks to raise up to $10 million from new investors

2 min read . 02 Oct 2018

Rohit Chokhani, principal founder of White Unicorn Ventures, a Mumbai-based seed-stage investor.

Why Rubique is in White Unicorn Ventures’ anti-portfolio

1 min read . 02 Oct 2018

PayU India managing director Jitendra Gupta.

PayU India gets RBI approval to operate its own NBFC

1 min read . 17 Sep 2018

Large un-banked and under-banked population in India, with evolution of alternate banking structures and fintech, has led to investors pumping more money into the financial services sector. Graphic: Naveen Kumar Saini/Mint

Private equity and venture capital firms still keen on financial services deals: EY

3 min read . 17 Sep 2018

Krishnan Vishwanathan, CEO and co-founder, Kissht.

Kissht raises $30 million in Series C led by Vertex Ventures, Sistema

1 min read . 12 Sep 2018

Founded in 2017 by IIT Delhi graduates Abhishek Soni and Nimesh Verma, Upwards Fintech provides personal loans up to ₹ 50,000 to salaried individuals, without a credit history and within 24 hours. Photo: iStockphoto

Upwards Fintech raises $5 million from Chinese venture fund Shunwei, others

2 min read . 11 Sep 2018

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin runs a venture capital firm called B Capital. Photo: Bloomberg

Kissht is in funding talks with Eduardo Saverin

2 min read . 03 Sep 2018

One97 Communications CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma.

Warren Buffett’s Paytm bet is actually not that big a deal

3 min read . 29 Aug 2018

Berkshire Hathaway’s investment in Paytm gives the credibility that a digital payments business can make money, says One97 Communications’ Vijay Shekhar Sharma.

Paytm sealed the Warren Buffett deal with 1 meeting, 2 phone calls

2 min read . 29 Aug 2018

Amazon Pay’s buyout of Tapzo values the app aggregator at $30-40 million. Photo: iStock

Amazon Pay said to acquire Tapzo in digital payments push

3 min read . 29 Aug 2018

Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma with Berkshire Hathaway’s investment manager Todd Combs.

It’s official: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire buys stake in Paytm

3 min read . 28 Aug 2018

The Warren Buffett investment is an endorsement for Paytm from one of the world’s biggest and most respectable investors who had so far stayed away from private tech stocks. Photo: Reuters

What the Warren Buffett deal means for Paytm, startups

2 min read . 28 Aug 2018