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Zeta raises USD 250 mn from SoftBank at USD 1.45 bn valuation
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Zeta raises USD 250 mn from SoftBank at USD 1.45 bn valuation

Mumbai, May 25th, 2021: Technology startup in banking sector Zeta raises USD 250 million from Japanese investment major SoftBank at a valuation of USD 1.45 billion, its co-founder and chief executive Bhavin Turakhia announced on Monday. This was the first-ever institutional investment in the 2015 founded company and also a first for Turakhia, a serial entrepreneur who has started four businesses. The investment happened from SoftBank's Vision Fund II.  Zeta's main product offering is focused on retail banks, which integrates mobile app, debit processing, credit processing and lending platform without changing the existing core banking systems. Its customers include the largest domestic private sector lender HDFC Bank and a slew of others.  The company had raised an undisc...
Chillr is Not a Wallet, We Have No Direct Competitors- Sony Joy, Founder of Chillr
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Chillr is Not a Wallet, We Have No Direct Competitors- Sony Joy, Founder of Chillr

Meet Mr. Sony Joy, the Co-founder at MobME Wireless and CEO at Chillr, which is building a digital banking ecosystem connecting banks, customers, businesses and enterprises in an intuitive and mobile-first way. Chillr is a multi-bank mobile banking application that links directly to your bank account and helps you make easy money transactions. You can use Chillr to send and receive money, recharge your mobile phone, data card and DTH and also make payments at stores. We interviewed him on recent successful approach of chillr towards payment banking system,   1. Could you explain the end-to-end process of sending money via Chillr? As a customer, you initiate a payment by selecting the “Pay” option on our App and authenticating the payment using the MPIN. We then validate the de...