UC-RNT Fund along with existing investors Matrix Partners India, Falcon Edge Capital, and DSG Consumer Partners invest in the round
- Mswipe has a payment network of 2,46,000 terminals spread across 550+ cities.
- The annualized value of transactions enabled by Mswipe across its network stands at Rs. 9,560 crores.
June 21, 2017: Mswipe Technologies Private Limited, India’s largest independent POS merchant acquirer and network provider, today announced Series D funding of $31 million. UC-RNT fund, a joint venture between Ratan Tata’s RNT Associates and the University of California along with existing investors Matrix Partners India, Falcon Edge Capital, and DSG Consumer Partners participated in the round. The company will use the funds to develop the largest network of merchants accepting digital payments in the country.
Mswipe currently has a payment network of 2,46,000 terminals spread across 550+ cities. As much as 80% of Mswipe’s customer base comprises of SME merchants, typically supported by 1-30 employees. The turnover of these outlets is in the range of Rs 1 to 5 lakhs a month, and most these merchants have can accept credit and debit card payments for the first time through Mswipe. The annualized value of total transactions enabled by Mswipe across its network stands at Rs. 9,560 crores. Last year alone, the transaction value on the Mswipe network grew 4 times while the number of installations grew 3 times. The company recently acquired PayU’s offline POS division, partnered with Samsung Pay, Sodexo and launched BharatQR and UPI acceptance for Mswipe’s merchants showcasing their ability as an open platform capable of accepting all digital payments.
Manish Patel, founder and CEO, Mswipe said, “With merchants of all sizes actively looking to enable digital payment acceptance at their establishments, we expect to grow exponentially going ahead, create card and electronic payment acceptance infrastructure across cities and widen our user base.”
Vikram Vaidyanathan, Managing Director, Matrix India said, “Mswipe is the ‘universal acceptance’ solution for all merchants enabling them to accept any payment instrument – cards, wallets, UPI, NFC etc. In a rapidly changing payments landscape, Mswipe’s open technology platform and ability to deliver solutions at the lowest cost sets them apart. We are privileged to partner with Manish and team on their journey to create India’s largest digital acceptance network”.
Despite the numerous cashless channels today, POS terminals are still the largest and most widely used cashless instruments available in the country. The number of transactions through POS terminals stood at 233.4 million in May 2017, valued at Rs 450.8 billion, according to RBI. Compared to that, digital wallets accounted for 91.3 million transactions and total value of Rs 25.3 billion. That is a difference of almost 2.5 times in terms of number of transactions and 18 times in terms of value of transactions.
“This round of funding from UC-RNT and our existing investors is an endorsement of our vision to disrupt the merchant acquiring and electronic payment acceptance industry through technology. Merchants across the board are now looking to streamline and automate processes. At Mswipe, we are working towards developing the next generation Android based smart POS terminals that will offer merchants capabilities like GST compliant billing and inventory management with integrated and seamless payment acceptance, on the same device. Merchants can further develop customized Android applications and easily integrate Mswipe’s payment platform with such apps using these smart POS terminals. All this, while ensuring the same level of security and trust for the customers”, added Manish.
About Mswipe:
Mswipe is India’s leading independent merchant acquirer and financial services provider. Based out of Mumbai, the company currently employs 2,000 people and has a pan-India sales and support network. The entire mobile POS solution comprising of mobile application on multiple mobile platforms, payment gateway, automated settlement and mobile POS terminals, has been developed in-house by Mswipe’s development team. Mswipe’s proprietary Wisepad G2TM is the first standalone EMV, PCI-PTS and NFC compliant mobile POS to be launched in India. The company has raised a sum of over $56 million from marquee investors like Falcon Edge Capital, Matrix Capital Partners, DSG Partners and Axis Bank. To know more, please visit: www.mswipe.com
About Matrix Partners India:
Matrix Partners India is an investment firm with INR 4,500 crore under management. The firm invests in companies targeting the Indian consumer and enterprise market at the seed, early and early growth stages. The firm has invested in several market leading companies in the consumer technology space including Ola (local transportation), Quikr (online classifieds), Practo (digital health platform), Dailyhunt (mobile local language platform), Limeroad (mobile social commerce marketplace), Five Star Finance (SME lending), Treebo (digital hotel chain) and Of Business (B2B marketplace) among others. Matrix Partners has a global network of funds investing in the US, China and India with US $4 billion under management. Further information is available at www.matrixpartners.in
About DSG Consumer Partners
DSG Consumer Partners is a venture capital fund focused on identifying, selecting and investing exclusively in early stage consumer businesses in India and South East Asia. DSGCP currently has US$80 million under management and is investing from DSGCP II. The founders have built a track record of investing for the long term and leading brands funded and backed by the founders since 2004 include Sula Wines (part exit to Everstone and Verlinvest), Saffronart, Cleartrip (part exit to Concur), Redmart (sold to Lazada), Bakers Circle, Veeba Food (part exit to Verlinvest), Social, Smoke House Deli, OYO Rooms (part exit to Softbank), Zipdial (sold to Twitter), Furtados School of Music, Mswipe, Saraf Foods, Chope, Burger King India, Chai Point, Suzette, IndiaLends, GOQii, Raw Pressery, Tazzo Bikes, Epigamia Yogurts, Simplee Aloe, Ramblin’ Brands, Salad Stop, Greyloft and Eazydiner