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M2P Fintech raises debt funding from Anicut Capital

EntrackrEntrackr · 1y ago
M2P Fintech raises debt funding from Anicut Capital
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Digital banking infrastructure company M2P Fintech has raised Rs 35 crore debt from Anicut Capital. This appears to be the first debt round for the Chennai-based company. The board at M2P Fintech has passed a resolution to issue 350 NCD (non-convertible debentures) at an issue price of Rs 10,00,000 each to raise Rs 35 crore, its regulatory filing sourced from RoC shows. In January 2022, the company raised $56 million in an equity round led by Insight Partners at a valuation of $600 million M2P has been acquiring companies at regular intervals in what appears to be aimed at strengthening its API infrastructure. In December last year, it acquired Goals101. It also took over identity validation startup Syntizen in July last year. M2P also offered a partial exit to its early backer 8i Ventures in June 2022. The early-stage investor claimed to have scored 36X multiple on its original investment with an IRR of 415% over two years. While the company is yet to disclose its FY23 numbers, its revenue from operations spiked 4.6X to Rs 194 crore in FY22. According to startup data intelligence platform TheKredible, its losses ballooned 6.2X to Rs 41 crore during the said fiscal year from Rs 6.6 crore in FY21.

Exclusive: M2P Fintech to raise $80 Mn at $900 Mn valuation

EntrackrEntrackr · 1y ago
Exclusive: M2P Fintech to raise $80 Mn at $900 Mn valuation
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Application programming interface (API) infrastructure platform M2P Fintech (formerly Yap) is in the final stage to raise a new round from new and existing investors, three sources aware of the details told Entrackr. The new round will come for the Bengaluru-based company after two and a half years. It raised $56 million in an equity round led by Insight Partners at a valuation of $650 million (post-money). “M2P is closing a $80 million new round of funding led by a new investor. Existing investors including Insight Partners are likely to join the round,” said one of the sources requesting anonymity. Sources assert that funding will be used to beef up tech infrastructure and accelerate growth pedal in India and overseas markets among others. For the uninitiated, M2P Fintech’s API enables businesses to offer their own branded financial services through partnerships with fintech companies while ensuring regulatory compliance. Apart from India, it operates in Nepal, UAE, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Bahrain and Egypt among several other countries. “M2P will be valued at around $880 to $900 million (post-money) in the new round,” said another source requesting anonymity. “The company has already received the term sheet and the deal is set to be public soon.” Queries sent to M2P Fintech and Insight Partners did not elicit an immediate response. To strengthen its offerings, the Tiger Global-backed firm has acquired six companies to date including Goals101, Syntizen and BSG ITSOFT. According to startup data intelligence platform TheKredible, M2P has raised Rs 864 crore till date. Beenext is the largest stakeholder in the company with over 13% holding. Its co-founders Madhusudhan R, Muthukumar A and Prabhu R collectively own 34% of the firm. M2P is yet to disclose its FY24 numbers but its operating revenue surged 2.26X to Rs 440.7 crore in FY23 from Rs 194.74 crore in FY22. The growth triggered the firm’s losses by 3.35X to Rs 134.26 crore in FY23. M2P Fintech is a leader in the API infrastructure business which counts Setu, Signzy and Decentro as other key players.

M2P Fintech revenue slips over 13% in FY24, losses remain unchanged

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M2P Fintech revenue slips over 13% in FY24, losses remain unchanged
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M2P Fintech revenue slips over 13% in FY24, losses remain unchanged M2P Fintech provides API infrastructure that enables businesses to offer their own branded financial services through partnerships with fintech companies, ensuring regulatory compliance. Banking infrastructure startup M2P Fintech struggled to grow in FY24, in contrast to FY23, when its scale more than doubled. The company's operating revenue declined by over 13% for the fiscal year ending March 2024, while its losses remained unchanged during the same period. M2P’s revenue from operations decreased 13.4% to Rs 382 crore in FY24 from Rs 441 crore in FY23, its annual consolidated financial statements sourced from the Registrar of Companies (RoC) show. M2P Fintech provides API infrastructure that enables businesses to offer their own branded financial services through partnerships with fintech companies, ensuring regulatory compliance. Operating in over 30 markets, including Asia Pacific, MENA, and Oceania regions, M2P Fintech claims to power more than 200 banks and 300 lenders. The Tiger Global-backed company has not disclosed a revenue breakdown for the last fiscal year. M2P Fintech generates income from multiple sources, including API usage fees, card issuance and management fees, platform subscription fees, commissions from banking partnerships, and cross-border forex services. The company states that it operates in 30 markets across the Asia Pacific, MENA, and Oceania regions. However, its export income stood at only Rs 4.6 crore, marking a steep 76.2% decline from Rs 19.3 crore in FY23. For the SaaS firm, employee benefits remained the largest cost center, accounting for 47.5% of total expenses. This expense rose by 33.5% to Rs 251 crore in FY24, including a non-cash ESOP cost of Rs 36 crore. With a decline in scale, spending on technology, cloud services, and co-branding dropped by 56.4% to Rs 160 crore in FY24. Legal, advertising, impairment, travel, and other overhead expenses brought M2P's total costs to Rs 528 crore, marking a 15.2% decline compared to FY23. Despite a 13.4% decline in scale, a 56.4% reduction in technology and related costs helped M2P Fintech contain its losses at Rs 134 crore in FY24, maintaining a similar level to FY23. On a unit level, the company spent Rs 1.38 to earn a rupee in FY24. By the end of FY24, M2P Fintech recorded a negative ROCE of -28.23% and an EBITDA margin of -22.51%. Its total current assets stood at Rs 318 crore, including Rs 78 crore in cash and bank balances as of March 2024. M2P has raised over $200 million to date including $100 million in its Series D round in a mix of primary and secondary led by Helios Investment Partners last year. According to the startup data intelligence platform TheKredible, Beenext is the largest external stakeholder followed by Tiger Global and Helios Partners. On Tuesday, the company also acquired Chennai-based Mad Street Den in a deal worth around $10-15 million. The deal has been cited as a distress sale considering Mad Street Den’s inadequate funding for future growth. M2P’s liquidity situation has clearly been the decider in this acquisition, besides hopes to use the assets from Mad Street Den to add a layer of AI and efficiency to its own offerings. Thus, with a lower balance sheet impact in terms of goodwill costs, what remains to be seen is if the acquisition will hasten its own much needed improvement in margins and a divisive return towards growth and profitability.

Exclusive: M2P Fintech raises $50 Mn from Taj Investment Holdings

EntrackrEntrackr · 1y ago
Exclusive: M2P Fintech raises $50 Mn from Taj Investment Holdings
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Application programming interface (API) infrastructure platform M2P Fintech (formerly Yap) has raised Rs 417.5 crore ($50 million) from new investor Taj Investment Holdings. The board at M2P passed a resolution to issue and offer Series D preference shares for this amount, according to regulatory filings accessed by Entrackr from the Registrar of Companies (RoC). M2P plans to utilize these funds for expansion and to meet its working capital needs. According to startup data intelligence platform TheKredible, the Chennai-based company is valued at around $800 million post-allotment. Interestingly, Taj Investment Holdings appears to have never invested in any Indian startup before M2P. Entrackr was unable to verify further details about the fund. We have reached out to M2P for comment and will update the story if they respond. Additionally, M2P has increased its employee stock option pool (ESOP) by adding 38,700 new options, bringing the total ESOP pool to 1,29,140 employee stock options, according to a separate resolution filed by the company. Prior to this funding round, Beenext was M2P’s largest external stakeholder, holding 10.23%, followed by Tiger Global with 9.22%, and Insight Partners with 6.44%. Co-founders Muthukumar Ayyakannu, Prabhu Rangarajan, and Madhusudanan R collectively own 34.03% of the company. M2P Fintech was reportedly in negotiations for an $80 million round, with $30 million expected from secondary sales. Entrackr exclusively reported on the potential fundraise in July. M2P Fintech provides API infrastructure that enables businesses to offer their own branded financial services through partnerships with fintech companies while ensuring regulatory compliance. The company operates in several countries, including Nepal, the UAE, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Bahrain, and Egypt, among others. Backed by Tiger Global, M2P has also made six acquisitions to date, including Goals101, Syntizen, and BSG ITSOFT. In FY23, M2P’s operating revenue surged 2.26X to Rs 440.7 crore, up from Rs 194.74 crore in FY22. However, its losses also increased 3.35X, amounting to Rs 134.26 crore in FY23. The company has yet to file its FY24 results. In the competitive API infrastructure space, M2P Fintech faces rivals such as Pine Labs-owned Setu, Signzy, and Decentro.

M2P Fintech to acquire Mad Street Den in distress sale

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M2P Fintech to acquire Mad Street Den in distress sale
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M2P Fintech to acquire Mad Street Den in distress sale Digital banking infrastructure company M2P Fintech is all set to acquire Chennai-based AI startup Mad Street Den, sources aware of the development told Entrackr. Moneycontrol, which reported the development first, said that the deal is a mix of stock and cash. According to sources, M2P Fintech is acquiring Mad Street Den in a distress sale for approximately $10-15 million. The company has raised over $50 million to date, including a $30 million round in January 2023 from Alpha Wave and Peak XV (formerly Sequoia Capital). Founded in 2016 by Ashwini Asokan and Anand Chandrasekaran, Mad Street Den’s core product Vue.ai focuses on the retail segment to provide automation and inventory management solutions.

M2P Fintech’s losses widens over 90% in FY25; revenue crosses Rs 500 Cr

EntrackrEntrackr · 3d ago
M2P Fintech’s losses widens over 90% in FY25; revenue crosses Rs 500 Cr
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M2P Fintech’s losses widens over 90% in FY25; revenue crosses Rs 500 Cr Banking infrastructure startup M2P Fintech reported a 33% year-on-year increase in its operating scale and crossed the Rs 500 crore threshold in FY25. However, the growth came at a steep cost which surged 90% during the last fiscal year. M2P Fintech’s revenue from operations grew to Rs 506 crore for the fiscal year ending March 2025 from Rs 382 crore in FY24, its annual consolidated financial statements sourced from the Registrar of Companies (RoC) show. M2P Fintech offers API infrastructure that allows businesses to launch their own branded financial services through partnerships with fintech firms, while ensuring regulatory compliance. The company operates in more than 30 markets across Asia Pacific, MENA, and Oceania, and claims to support over 200 banks and 300 lenders. Significantly, the Tiger Global-backed firm has not disclosed its revenue breakdown for the last fiscal year. It earns revenue from multiple streams, including API usage fees, card issuance and management fees, platform subscription charges, commissions from banking partnerships, lending solutions, cross-border forex services, and others. The company earned almost all of its revenue from the domestic market, with only Rs 5.7 crore coming from export services, despite operating in over 30 markets across the Asia Pacific, MENA, and Oceania regions. The firm also earned around Rs 25 crore from non-operating sources, recorded under miscellaneous income, which took its overall income to Rs 531 crore in the last fiscal year. For the SaaS firm, spending on technology, cloud services, and co-branding was the largest cost for the firm, around 41%, which doubled to Rs 325 crore in FY25 as compared to Rs 160 crore in FY24. The employee benefits expenses also rose 24% to Rs 311 crore, which includes a non-cash ESOP cost of Rs 40 crore. Legal, advertising, impairment, depreciation & amortization, travel, and other overhead expenses brought M2P's total costs to Rs 786 crore, a 49% year-on-year increase compared to Rs 528 crore in FY24. The company’s losses widened 91% to Rs 256 crore in the last fiscal, as technology-related costs doubled during the period, which caused overall expenses to rise faster than operating scale. On a unit level, the company spent Rs 1.55 to earn one rupee in FY25. M2P Fintech recorded a negative ROCE of -34.71% and an EBITDA margin of -44.07%. Its EBITDA (loss) stood at Rs 223 crore during the period. The Chennai-based company’s total current assets stood at Rs 774 crore, including Rs 395 crore in cash and bank balances as of March 2025. M2P has raised over $200 million to date, including $100 million in its Series D round through a mix of primary and secondary transactions led by Helios Investment Partners in September 2024. In March last year, the company also acquired Chennai-based Mad Street Den in a distress sale valued at around $10–15 million.

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