Common Atlantic has poured a further $100 million in PhonePe, three months soon after primary a $350 million expense in the Indian fintech startup that has so significantly elevated $750 million as section of the ongoing financing round.
Walmart-backed PhonePe disclosed the investment decision in a filing with the nearby regulator on Wednesday. A organization spokesperson confirmed the expense. The ongoing spherical values the Bengaluru-headquartered startup at $12 billion.
At a $12 billion valuation, PhonePe is India’s most valuable fintech startup. It competes with Google Fork out and Paytm, the latter of which is now valued at virtually $5 billion.
PhonePe dominates transactions on UPI, a community built by a coalition of retail banks in India. UPI is the most well-liked way Indians transact on the net — it procedures extra than 8 billion transactions a thirty day period. Google’s GPay and PhonePe now system much more than 80% of all UPI transactions.
7-year-previous PhonePe instructions about 50% of all these transactions and it is not slowing down. The corporation reported last 7 days it was on tempo to process transactions really worth $1 trillion every year. Walmart, which also owns a the greater part share in e-commerce giant Flipkart, reported past month the separation of Flipkart and PhonePe was “very analogous to eBay and PayPal, wherever each individual of them functioning independently can pursue their personal initiatives.”
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