Fintech agency BankSathi raises $4 million as Pre-series A spherical

Bangalore primarily based social e-commerce platform BankSathi has raised $4 million in funding from Kotak Securities, Lets Enterprise, We Founder Circle, Hem Securities and IPV (Inflection Level Ventures).

The corporate has additionally obtained funding from Recur Club, Liquiloans, Sunil Singhania (Abakkus), Kunal Shah (CRED), Dr Ritesh Malik (Innov8), Kailash Biyani (Asian Markets), Mukul Rastogi & Bhaswat Agarwal (ClassPlus), Varun Alagh (MamaEarth), Sameer Rastogi (India Juris), Manish Dabkara (EKI Power), and Mukund Modi (MS Fincap).

The funds will likely be used to spend money on high-calibre workers throughout all the corporate’s operations and to speed up the event of recent merchandise and know-how. As well as, the organisation will make investments assets towards rising each its agent community and geographic attain into new areas.

BankSathi is a social commerce fintech platform to empower customers’ monetary life by offering proper monetary merchandise entry to final mile customers. It makes use of precedence algorithms to suggest monetary merchandise to advisors primarily based on the shopper’s profile and previous transactions. This helps each prospects and advisors obtain suggestions for the perfect merchandise.

Jitendra Dhaka, Founder & CEO stated in a press release, “Folks typically depend on their networks for suggestions, significantly in relation to important monetary companies. Consequently, our distribution community of vetted brokers offers the much-needed safety to prospects. we’re eager to make an enormous contribution within the prime minister’s mission ‘Develop India by 2047’ by growing monetary penetration via our tech empowered monetary advisors. With this funding, we will increase product, know-how, and distribution community at a quicker tempo.”

Jaideep Hansraj, MD & CEO, Kotak Securities Restricted stated in a press release, “Right now small and mid-sized monetary advisors/micro-entrepreneurs will not be in a position to straight work with monetary establishments. BankSathi is enabling these micro-entrepreneurs to promote & earn additional revenue via promoting monetary merchandise on-line and making themselves financially impartial & educated.”

BankSathi makes use of its community of brokers to make suggestions for proper monetary merchandise to its prospects in Tier 2, Tier 3 cities and distant areas. The distribution approach utilized by the agency offers product options in a number of monetary classes together with financial institution accounts, bank cards, loans, demat accounts and insurance coverage insurance policies. The shortage of belief that exists in India is the first barrier to the nation’s adoption of economic merchandise.

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