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Truecaller acquires Sequoia Backed Payment Startup Chillr
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Truecaller acquires Sequoia Backed Payment Startup Chillr

Sweden based caller identification app Truecaller has acquired payment startup Chillr to boost its payment business in the country, as announced at a press conference in Bengaluru on Wednesday. The acquisition has come in just after the company announced to roll out credit and other financial services to Indian users in the coming months. Chillr team members which include Anoop Sankar, Sony Joy, Mohamed Galib and Lishoy Bhaskaran will be absorbed into the company with co-founder Sony Joy serving as the vice president of Truecaller Pay. Notably, Truecaller had ventured into digital payments last year in India with its UPI service. Co-founder Nami Zarringhalam had earlier informed that the company is incorporating payments as a core part of its offerings. Commenting on the recent a...
Grab Announces Acquisition of Bangalore Based Payments Startup
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Grab Announces Acquisition of Bangalore Based Payments Startup

Grab, the leading on-demand transportation and mobile payments platform in Southeast Asia, today announced it has acquired Bangalore-based payments startup iKaaz. The rich functionality of iKaaz’ mobile payments platform and its experienced leadership team will accelerate feature development and partner integration of GrabPay, Grab’s payments platform. Already Southeast Asia’s #1 ride-hailing platform, Grab is expanding across all markets in Southeast Asia in 2018 with the goal of becoming the region’s universal payments platform. Launched in 2014, iKaaz’ technology was built to work in India’s challenging internet conditions and enable effortless and fast payments for thousands of merchants. ikaaz’ technology stack encompasses a range of innovations, such as NFC, QR-code, audio-based p...