Moneyview

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Moneyview
Company type Private
Industry
  • Financial technology
  • Digital lending
Founded2014(10 years ago) (2014)
Founder
  • Puneet Agarwal
  • Sanjay Aggarwal
Headquarters Bangalore, Karnataka,
India
RevenueIncrease2.svg253.25 crore (US$32 million) (FY22) [1]
Increase2.svg17.72 crore (US$2.2 million) (FY22) [1]
Website moneyview.in

Moneyview is an Indian fintech company, based in Bangalore. [2] Its parent company is Whizdm Finance Private Limited, an Indian non-deposit non-banking financial company(NBFC-ND) registered with Reserve Bank of India [3] . Moneyview operates in the space of digital lending and money management. [4] Moneyview provides products like personal loans, personal finance manager, [5] EMI calculators, and credit score tracking. [6]

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History

Moneyview was founded in 2014 [5] [7] by Puneet Agarwal and Sanjay Aggarwal with the aim of simplifying finances [7] and providing financial inclusion [4] to all Indians. The company initially started with providing a financial management app [5] for Android.

Moneyview received initial funding from Accel India and Ribbit Capital in 2014. [7]

In March 2016, Moneyview launched a Green Account platform with ICICI Bank [8] to allow users to save money regularly.

In November 2016, Moneyview shifted their primary focus to digital lending. [9] [10] Moneyview is a founding member [11] of the Digital Lending Association of India (DLAI). The DLAI comprises over 80 digital lending players; including Cred, Paytm, Experian, and RBL Bank; and represents around 85% of the transaction volume of the digital credit industry in India. [12]

In 2019, Moneyview partnered with Xiaomi to launch Mi Credit in India. [13] [14] This partnership ended in 2022, with the shut down of Mi Financial Services in India. [15] [16]

In September 2023, Moneyview received ISO 27001:2022 certification, [17] an international standard for management and protection of the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information handled by the company.

As of March 2024, the Moneyview loans app has been downloaded over 50 million times, and has over 2 million reviews with an overall rating of 4.7 on Google Play Store. [18] As of December 2022, Moneyview had an annualised disbursal run-rate of $1.2 billion, with over $800 million assets under management. [4]

Business model

Moneyview's digital lending works on a revenue-sharing arrangement with its lending partners, where the company bears the cost of acquiring and servicing customers, and the lender provides the capital. [19]

Moneyview has partnered with 15 financial institutions [20] to offer credit and financial products. These include DMI Finance, SMFG India Credit, Aditya Birla Capital, [21] IDFC First Bank, [22] Whizdm Finance, and others.

Funding

Moneyview is a Series-E funded company with multiple investors. Moneyview received its initial funding of ₹101.7M from Accel and Ribbit Capital on Oct 1, 2014.

As of September 2023, Moneyview has participated in 6 funding rounds and has raised a total of $183.7M from 13 investors. The latest funding was raised in December 2022 in a Series-E round. [23] [24] The objective of this round of funding is to scale the core credit business, and also expand Moneyview's product portfolio with additional services such as digital bank accounts, insurance, and wealth management solutions. [4] [25] [26]

Announced DateTransaction NameInvestorFund RaisedValuation
Oct 1, 2014Venture RoundAccel, Ribbit Capital₹101.7 M [7]
Apr 1, 2015Venture RoundAccel, Ribbit Capital, Tiger Global Management ₹529.1 M
Jan 31, 2016Series BAccel, Ribbit Capital, Tiger Global Management₹660 M
Dec 14, 2018Series CAccel₹1,000 M [27]
Mar 9, 2022Series DAccel, Evolvence India Fund, Tiger Global Management, Winter Capital$75 M [28] $625 M
Dec 26, 2022Series EApis Partner$75 M [4] Increase2.svg $900 M

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