‏إظهار الرسائل ذات التسميات IFTA. إظهار كافة الرسائل
‏إظهار الرسائل ذات التسميات IFTA. إظهار كافة الرسائل

Meet 23 Promisinig Fintech Startups Shortlisted for Prestigious IFTA 2022

Meet 23 Promising Fintech Startups Shortlisted for Prestigious IFTA 2022

India FinTech Forum Unveils 23 high potential fintech startups for IFTA 2022

  • The prestigious IFTA is one of India’s longest running fintech events
  • 1200+ applications received from across the globe from Lending, Payments, WealthTech, Blockchain, Regtech, InsurTech and many more domains
  • Applications received from around 20 countries
  • Winner to be announced at IFTA on 30th November, 2022 in Mumbai
India FinTech Forum, a not for profit fintech advocacy group representing Indian fintech companies, has announced 23 fintech startups who will give demos of their innovative products and services to a high profile jury this month. The winning startup will be awarded the prestigious IFTA Fintech Startup of the Year award on 30th November 2022 during a full-day in-person conference at Mumbai. In another category, 6 companies incorporated before 2015 will compete for the Fintech Scaleup of the Year award.

Winners of past editions of IFTA have included well-known names like Capital Float, ZestMoney and Simpl. Past winners of IFTA have cumulatively raised over USD 4 billion in funding from VCs till date.

Nitya Sharma, Co-Founder & CEO at Simpl and winner of Fintech Startup of the Year 2020 says, “This award is a recognition of all the hard work the team has put into creating a new category of payments and a breakthrough consumer experience.

1200+ applications were received for 20+ award categories from countries including Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Georgia, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States of America. The process of shortlisting was more quantitative than qualitative to ensure an objective decision by the panel.

The 7th edition of IFTA is supported by prominent entities that are committed to accelerating the Indian Fintech Ecosystem, including Mumbai FinTech Hub, Perfios, Happay, CashRich, Think360.AI, EnKash, Biz2X, Ring, Dhan, JuicyScore, TransUnion CIBIL, Xoxoday and ComplyVantage.

India FinTech Forum is proud to present the following high-potential fintech startups for 2022 :
  1. Arthan Finance ARTH (India 🇮🇳): Arthan Finance is a new age LendingTech that endeavours to transform Small Businesses through AI & Deep Learning based customized "Fit to Purpose" financial products.
  2. BankSathi (India 🇮🇳): BankSathi is a new edge digital advisory platform that enables financial advisers to develop their digital presence and begin selling financial goods online.
  3. Bimaplan (India 🇮🇳): Bimaplan’s embedded insurance platform enables partners to seamlessly provide multiple insurance policies at the click of a button to their customers and deliver an enriched customer experience
  4. Biz2X India (India 🇮🇳): Biz2X is helping banks run their lending operations at scale with enhanced loan management, servicing, risk analytics and a configurable customer journey
  5. BondEvalue (Singapore🇸🇬):
    BondEvalue operates BBX, the world’s first fractional bond exchange. Regulated as a Recognised Market Operator by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, BBX transforms the bond market globally by enabling investors to do electronic bond trading of fractional bonds via partner banks and brokers
  6. CASHe (India 🇮🇳): CASHe is a credit-enabled financial technology platform that offers a wide range of consumer lending products and services including personal loans, BNPL, Credit Line, payments and transfer facilities to salaried millennials using its proprietary credit rating algorithm.
  7. Cashfree Payments (India🇮🇳): Cashfree Payments enables businesses in India with payment collections, vendor payouts, wage payouts, instant loan disbursements, e-commerce refunds, insurance claims processing, expense reimbursements, loyalty, and rewards payments.
  8. CredAble (India 🇮🇳): CredAble is India's largest working capital tech platform, catering to the working capital requirements of India Inc. that includes large, mid, emerging corporates, MSMEs, and financial institutions.
  9. Decentro (India 🇮🇳): Decentro is a full-stack API banking platform where one can select desired modules, integrate in the sandbox, and launch their product within a couple of weeks.
  10. Financepeer (India 🇮🇳): Financepeer specializes in education fee financing that enables educational institutes to manage their funds efficiently by paying student’s entire year's fees up front while the parents get the option to pay back in easy EMIs.
  11. Fintso (India 🇮🇳): Fintso is a full-stack wealthtech platform focused on giving access to retail investors, especially the NeXT Billion, by enabling Independent Financial Product Providers (IFPPs) with access to financial products, digital execution, and robo-advisory support.
  12. Finverv (India 🇮🇳): Finverv is a SaaS-enabled platform that helps companies embed credit in their ecosystem through a simple plug-and-play design, and in turn, diversifies the credit portfolio of lending institutions.
  13. GroMo (India 🇮🇳): GroMo offers a single app to their partners so that they can recommend the right financial products to customers. GroMo is empowering lakhs of micro-entrepreneurs, helping them make a good income by referring financial products in their network.
  14. InsuranceDekho (India🇮🇳): InsuranceDekho is an online platform that lets customers compare insurance quotes from top-rated insurance companies and purchase the insurance policy that best suits their needs.
  15. KYC Hub (India 🇮🇳): KYC Hub offers an integrated platform to automate anti money laundering compliance and customer due diligence with AI and data insights. Their AML transaction solution offers PEP and sanctions screening, blacklist screening, and customer profiling features.
  16. Multipl (India 🇮🇳): Multipl offers a unique “Save Now, Pay Later” app through which users can save up for their upcoming expenses. They get returns from the market and from leading brands to accomplish goals debt free and at the lowest cost.
  17. New Street Technologies (India 🇮🇳): New Street Technologies’ flagship product MiFiX (Multi-interface Financial eXchange) for the BFSI sector is a pioneering blockchain based ecosystem that connects banks, NBFCs and other FIs seamlessly with their customers, business correspondents, and other stakeholders to manage a range of services including origination, KYC, Credit Bureau Referencing, underwriting, documentation, account opening, disbursements, collections, reconciliation, reporting, billing & settlement.
  18. NFTBOOKS (Australia 🇦🇺): NFTBOOKS is a platform to publish works on books, magazines, paintings etc. on blockchain protocol. Using NFT (Non-Fungtible Token) identification technology for copyright, it aims to eliminate piracy as much as possible and make products accessible to readers at very reasonable prices.
  19. Pismo Labs (Singapore 🇸🇬): Pismo provides an all-in-one processing platform for banking and payments. Their cloud-based platform empowers teams to build fast and companies to launch rapidly, scaling as they grow to have a broader audience while keeping high security and availability standards for their digital banking and payments solutions.
  20. Progcap (India 🇮🇳): Progcap is revolutionising the way financial access is delivered to underserved segments of the Indian retail economy. It uses technology and its unique delivery model to underwrite credit and provide under-banked semi-urban and rural retailers access to flexible, collateral free working capital.
  21. Revfin (India 🇮🇳): Revfin is a digital lending platform to make loans convenient and accessible to financially excluded individuals. Its lending platform combines traditional underwriting methods with innovative techniques like biometrics, psychometrics and gamification.
  22. Rupifi (India 🇮🇳): Rupifi powers B2B transactions for SMEs. It is India’s first Embedded Finance company which operates in the B2B Payments space through its B2B BNPL product.
  23. Tazapay (Singapore 🇸🇬): Tazapay is a payments platform for enabling trust in cross-border commerce. It will enable access to various services for doing cross-border trade safely - such as payment protections via escrow, formalising trade agreements with digitally signed agreements and counterparty risk assessment.
IFTA is proud to announce the finalists for IFTA Fintech Scaleup of the Year 2022:
  1. Chainalysis (USA 🇺🇸): Chainalysis offers cryptocurrency investigation and compliance solutions to global law enforcement agencies, regulators, and businesses as they work together to fight illicit cryptocurrency activity. Backed by Benchmark and other leading names in venture capital, Chainalysis builds trust in blockchains.
  2. Chargeback Gurus (USA 🇺🇸): Chargeback Gurus provides end-to-end consumer transaction dispute management to leading brands around the world. Its team of experts delivers comprehensive chargeback solutions that prevent and recover a high percentage of chargebacks while reducing the merchant’s exposure to fraud.
  3. HyperVerge (India 🇮🇳): HyperVerge provides identity verification and fraud detection solutions for companies that are in industries like BFSI, crypto, telecom, e-commerce etc. and has verified more than 500 million identities till date. Its AI models lead the market on accuracy and recall values, precisely optimised for deployments in low bandwidth environments.
  4. Profinch (India 🇮🇳): Profinch provides technology solutions that enable financial institutions to be future-ready. Solutions include consulting services and off-the-shelf products for 360-degree digitization and data transformation.
  5. SysArc Infomatix (India 🇮🇳): SysArc Infomatix is a leading FinTech software solutions provider that provides loan automation, fund management and other financial solutions to the lending sector.
  6. Valocity Global (New Zealand): Valocity helps lenders globally to validate the value of a property before they can lend money on it, through the best cloud-based technology and data innovation. It connects the property ecosystem using flexible and customisable technology to transform the entire mortgage valuation process.
About IFTA

The India FinTech Forum is a non-profit initiative that offers a platform for fintech companies to collaborate and voice their opinions on the relevant policy issues. More than 2,750 fintech companies and over 30,000 individuals who are members of this forum, are dedicated to enhancing the ecosystem to ensure that India leads the global fintech innovation wave. Indian fintech firms have unique opportunities with the India Stack (Aadhar, UPI, etc.), which are not available anywhere else in the world. The India FinTech Forum organizes consultations, round tables, webinars and meet-ups in several locations and seeks to drive policies that accelerate the growth of fintech in India.

Website Link: www.indiafintech.com

India Fintech Forum and Amazon Pay Announces Winners of IFTA 2020

Simpl Bags the prestigious Fintech Startup of the Year,

Fintech Leader of the Year 2020 goes to Vijay Shekhar Sharma at The India Fintech Award (IFTA) 2020

  • ClearTax won Fintech Scaleup of the Year
  • Khatabook won Financial Inclusion Initiative of the Year
  • ADVANCE.AI (Singapore) won Best International Fintech in India
  • Sucharita Mukherjee, CEO and CO-Founder, Kaleidofin Won Woman Leader in Fintech
  • Over 600 applications received from countries including USA, UK, UAE, Switzerland, Sweden ,Sri Lanka, Spain, Singapore, Norway, New Zealand, Netherlands, Ireland, India, Hungary, HongKong, Germany, France, Canada, Brazil and Algeria

Mumbai | 4 December 2020: IFTA 2020 is organized by India FinTech Forum, a not for profit fintech advocacy group since 2016.

IFTA is an annual competition and platform to celebrate and recognise the best innovations from fintech companies around the world. The 5th edition of India Fintech Awards (IFTA) is a joint initiative supported by Amazon Pay, PayU, HAPPY, WazirX, CashRich, TransUnion CIBIL and Deloitte to celebrate global fintech excellence.

Simpl bagged the prestigious Fintech Startup of the Year trophy and The Fintech Leader of the Year award went to Mr. Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder and CEO, Paytm.

Five Indian Tech Start-ups have been crowned winners of the 5th edition of the Next Big Idea Contest. 

AssetVault from UK and Khatabook and Nearby Technologies from India have been crowned with Fintech Rising Stars award
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Past winners of IFTA have cumulatively raised over 1.5 billion USD in funding fromtill date.

The program received over 600 applications from across the globe such as USA, UK, UAE, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Norway, New Zealand, Netherlands, Ireland, India, Hungary, Hong Kong, Germany, France, Canada, Brazil, and Algeria.

27 high potential Fintech startups from over 20 countries were shortlisted to present live demos to a high-profile jury from 30th November – 2nd December 2020 to compete for the Fintech Startup of the Year at India FinTech Awards 2020 (IFTA).

The entire assessment framework was developed and managed by Deloitte and MEDICI. The application process kicked off in August 2020, and finalists underwent two rounds of shortlisting by an eminent panel of Judges with vast experience in the world of finance, technology and enterprise. 

MEDICI launched its Banking-as-a-Service 2.0 report at IFTA 2020. Key highlights include factors driving growth, funding and investor activity and global landscape dissected by region.

Keynote Speaker Dr. RS Sharma , Former Chairman TRAI discussed Aadhaar's impact in enabling fintech innovation, and digital diplomacy where India can help other countries set up platforms like Aadhar. He shared interesting anecdotes from his book The Making of Aadhaar: World’s Largest Identity Platform. He said, “Aadhaar provides a financial address where you can transfer money. We have billions of DBT transactions. Just the LPG cylinder subsidy itself constitutes more than a billion transactions per year. One can imagine the scale at which fintech has worked. I’m sure we will see more and more innovations to make the lives of customers easy.The ultimate purpose of innovation is to remove the pain point of the customer“.


India Fintech Forum is proud to present the winners at IFTA 2020:


  • Fintech Scaleup of the Year - ClearTax (India)
  • Fintech Leader of the Year - Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder and CEO, Paytm
  • Woman Leader in Fintech - Sucharita Mukherjee, CEO and CO-Founder, Kaleidofin
  • Best Fintech Business Lender - Lendingkart (India)
  • Best International Fintech in India - ADVANCE.AI (Singapore)
  • Best FinTech Ecosystem Partner - Rainmatter Capital (India)
  • Financial Inclusion Initiative of the Year - Khatabook (India)
  • Excellence in Payments - Paytm (India)
  • Best Use of AI in Fintech - Flow (Singapore)
  • Best Use of Blockchain in Financial Services - CoinDCX (India)
  • Best Innovation in RegTech - Signzy (India)
  • Best Innovation in Wealth Management - Upstox (India)
  • Best Technology Company for Fintech Solutions - Novopay (India)
  • Excellence in InsureTech - ACKO General Insurance (India)
  • Most Innovative Fintech Product - Razorpay (India)
Sougata Basu, Founder, CashRich and Executive Committee Member of India FinTech Forum said, “IFTA has a tradition of bringing the most innovative Fintech companies on one platform. IFTA 2020 maintained its 5 year old tradition and had brilliant startup founders demo their product innovation. Several industry thought-leaders came together to share insights on topics ranging from super-apps to the rise of neo-banks, innovations in digital lending, crypto as an asset class and much more.”

Razorpay Recognised as the ‘Most Innovative Payment Start-up’ at IFTA 2019


  • RazorpayX, the neo-banking platform, won the ‘Most Innovative Fintech Product’

  • Harshil Mathur, Co-founder and CEO honoured as the ‘Fintech Leader of the Year’



Delivering innovation that empowers businesses, Razorpay, the neo-banking platform, successfully added three more accolades to its bouquet at the India FinTech Awards (IFTA) 2019, organised by India FinTech Forum in association with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). The company won awards for the ‘Most Innovative Payment Startup’ and ‘Most Innovative Fintech Product’ for its neo-banking product, RazorpayX. The CEO & Co-founder, Harshil Mathur was also honoured at the event as the ‘Fintech Leader of the Year’.

IFTA is a platform which celebrates and recognises the leaders and organizations for their contribution in the payments and technology domain. The three awards are a testimony of Razorpay’s efforts towards developing unique and scalable solutions, empowering the payment and banking infrastructure to evolve from being transactional to transformational and impactful.

[caption id="attachment_138994" align="alignleft" width="332"] Harshil Mathur, Co-founder & CEO of Razorpay[/caption]

Winning a hatrick at the event, CEO and Co-founder of Razorpay, Harshil Mathur, said, “We are truly humbled and excited about these recognitions. Razorpay has been charting an exponential growth in the last couple of years and these awards are indicative that our efforts are in the right direction, inspiring us to take excellence to new heights.”

He added, “Our strength lies in our technology and our team and this success is a sign of the faith that our partner businesses have in us. We look forward to continue creating valuable and differentiated products for businesses to solve for challenges in this swiftly evolving business landscape, so that we are all ready for tomorrow.”

Having evolved from being a single product to a multi-product company, Razorpay has achieved 500% growth in the last one year and currently powers digital payments for 8,00,000 businesses. The company also recently announced the launch of corporate credit cards, online payment support for freelancers and homepreneurs, and the acquisition of the payroll company, Opfin. The company also aims to double headcount by next year and expects a 5x growth in its revenue by the end of the next fiscal year. Razorpay has raised funding over $105 million until now, led by Tiger Global, Sequoia India, Y Combinator and Ribbit Capital, among others.

About Razorpay Software Private Limited

Razorpay, a neo-banking company, helps Indian businesses with comprehensive and innovative solutions built over robust technology to address the entire length and breadth of the payment journey for any business. Established in 2014, the company provides technology payment solutions to over 8,00,000 businesses. Founded by alumni of IIT Roorkee, Shashank Kumar and Harshil Mathur, Razorpay is the second Indian company to be a part of Silicon Valley’s largest tech accelerator, Y Combinator. Marquee investors such as Tiger Global, Matrix Partners, Y Combinator, Sequoia India, Ribbit Capital and MasterCard have invested a total of $106.5 million through Series A, B and C funding. Around 33 angel investors have invested in Razorpay’s mission to simplify payments. Known to be a developer oriented payment gateway, Razorpay focuses on essentials such as 24x7 support, one-line integration code and superior checkout experiences.

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