Paytm, Indian mobile payment and commerce platform, announced today that Mountain Capital will make an investment into Paytm. The fresh capital infusion will allow Paytm, the consumer brand of One97 Communications, to further accelerate and develop a vibrant mobile ecosystem in India encompassing payments, commerce and financial services. The proceeds of the investment will be used for expansion and scaling up, boosting payments and commerce and building and launching the proposed Paytm Payments Bank.
Speaking on the investment, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder & CEO, Paytm said, “India is an important emerging market with immense potential for smartphone devices, mobile payments, commerce, and financial services. MediaTek’s endorsement on Paytm through Mountain Capital further demonstrates its confidence in the proliferation of India’s digital payments and mobile Internet ecosystem. For Paytm, our mission is to bring half a billion Indians to the mainstream economy and we are happy to have a long term partner in the mobile chipset world to join us. India is ripe for its financial services revolution and with the growing penetration of smartphones, we have an opportunity to give a new business model of payment, banking and financial services combined with online commerce."
Paytm has an established and strong foothold in the offline payments and commerce space. It has become the most preferred choice of payments with retailers and the mobile wallet users. The mobile wallet company has powered strong acceptance for digital payments at a host of partner destinations such as movie tickets, fuel stations, automobile booking, education institutes, flight and hotels booking, utility bills, Kiran stores, cab fares, among many others.
With the current user base of more than 135 million, Paytm is on a mission to bring half a billion Indians to the main stream of the economy using mobile payment, commerce and soon to be launched payment banking services. The company is headquartered in New Delhi NCR. Its investors include Ant Financial (Alipay), Alibaba Group, SAIF Partners, Sapphire Venture and Silicon Valley Bank.
Mountain Capital Fund, L.P., one of the investment funds of MediaTek Inc., is focusing on high tech and innovative investments. MediaTek Inc. is a pioneering fabless semiconductor company and a market leader in cutting-edge system on chips (SoCs) for mobile devices, home entertainment, connectivity and IoT products.
