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Truecaller acquires Sequoia Backed Payment Startup Chillr
13Jun By Lavina TolaniNo Comments
ACQUISITION

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...
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Chillr is Not a Wallet, We Have No Direct Competitors- Sony Joy, Founder of Chillr
25Feb By NitishNo Comments
Entrepreneurs Talk

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...
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