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Knight Fintech raises $23.6 Mn in Series A round led by Accel

EntrackrEntrackr · 15d ago
Knight Fintech raises $23.6 Mn in Series A round led by Accel
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Knight Fintech raises $23.6 Mn in Series A round led by Accel Mumbai-based banking infrastructure startup Knight Fintech has raised $23.6 million in a funding round led by Accel, with participation from IIFL and Rocket Capital. Existing investors Prime Venture Partners, 3One4 Capital, Commerce VC, and Trifecta Capital also took part in the round. Knight Fintech’s total funding now stands at $30 million. The proceeds will be used to strengthen product capabilities and support international expansion, targeting markets across Asia Pacific and the Gulf region. Founded in 2019, Knight Fintech builds core infrastructure that connects banks, lenders, platforms, and borrowers to enable capital flow across the financial ecosystem. The firm operates products spanning co-lending, digital lending, embedded finance, and treasury management. Its co-lending stack allows banks and large NBFCs to partner with other institutions to originate and distribute loans. It works with financial institutions such as Bank of Baroda, Bank of India, ICICI Securities, IIFL Finance, Bajaj Auto, Muthoot Fincorp, and NABARD. Knight Fintech currently supports over 150 partnerships across 85 lenders. According to the company, its platform has facilitated more than $7 billion in loan disbursements and manages over $5 billion in active assets. Its treasury management software handles liquidity, risk, borrowings, and investments, with assets worth over $125 billion managed through the system. Over the next four years, Knight Fintech aims to scale annual revenues to $85–100 million and expand assets under management beyond $50 billion.

8i Ventures leads $4 Mn Series A round in TransBnk

EntrackrEntrackr · 1y ago
8i Ventures leads $4 Mn Series A round in TransBnk
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Mumbai-based fintech startup TransBnk has raised $4 million in Series A funding round led by 8i Ventures. The round also saw participation from Accion Venture Lab, GMO Venture Partners, Ratio Ventures, and Force Ventures along with a group of family offices, institutions, and angel investors. The Mumbai-based fintech startup had previously raised $1 million in seed funding led by 8i Ventures back in June 2023. The proceeds will be allocated towards expanding the network of banking partners, making foray into the Middle East and SouthEast Asia markets, bolstering its tech infrastructure, and enhancing product stack, TransBnk stated in a press release. Co-founded in 2022 by Vaibhav Tambe, Lavin Kotian, Sachin Gupta, and Pulak Jain, TransBnk is a transaction banking platform enabling corporate, commercial and institutional clients to make agile, secure and robust transactions with embedded finance and SaaS. It aims to provide deep domain expertise to ensure seamless business transactions for domestic cash management and payments, escrows, trade finance, supply chain finance and custodial services in close collaboration with banks. According to market research, transaction banking is holding $1 trillion global market potential and is projected to be a $2 trillion industry by 2030. TransBnk claims to have witnessed 10X revenue growth, forged partnerships with over 25 Banks, extending more than 200 APIs, while working with 100 BFSI clients. The platform also claims that it has supported over 5,000 accounts including escrows and processed more than 50 million transactions. TransBnk may directly or indirectly compete with other companies like Razorpay, Cashfree Payments, Decentro, Knight Fintech, Digio and others.

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