Close on the heels of a USD 285-million investment round, fintech major Pine Labs may raise additional funds in the coming weeks according to company official.
Company offers merchants payment technology and working capital; it started as a retail solutions player in petroleum.
Malaysia-based company Fave, which provides QR payments and loyalty cashback to restaurants and retailers, has enabled 6 million consumers in Southeast Asia to save over $400 million since 2016
With AllTap, small merchants who aren't ready to invest in a traditional point-of-sale terminal can immediately start accepting digital payments on their NFC-enabled smartphone
Funding makes it country's most valued fintech after Paytm and PhonePe. Pine Labs silent on deal size, industry sources put it at $75-100 million
Pine Labs processes payments of $30 billion per year and serves some 150,000 merchants across about 450,000 network points in Asia.
The company plans to considerably scale up its Android POS network in 2020-21 to 1.5 lakh machines and diversify into newer industries
PhonePe has received Rs 697.9 crore from its parent entity PhonePe Pvt Ltd while Pine Labs has raised about Rs 707 crore through a rights issue to its parent entity, Pine Labs Pte. Ltd
Developers can use the platform to build innovative solutions for small merchants and businesses
In the next couple of years, the Noida-based firm is also expecting the total payment volume (TPV) on its transactions to rise more than four-fold to $100 billion from $23 billion
In the third part of a series on soon-to-become Unicorns, we take a look at Pine Labs' business model
This is the second fund-raising for the company in this calendar year after it raised $82 million in an earlier investment round
Pine currently processes 450 million transactions worth over $15 billion in a year