Hindustan Times (Amritsar)

MSWIPE RAISES $10 MN FROM DSG CONSUMER, B CAPITAL

- Salman SH salman.h@livemint.com

BENGALURU: Ms wipe Technologi­es Pvt. Ltd, which makes point of sale (PoS) machines for merchants, raised $10 million in funding from B Capital Group and DSG Consumer Partners, closing its Series D round, the company said on Wednesday.

Ms wipe announced the Series D round in June, when it initially raised $31 million from Ratan Tata’s UC-RNT Fund, Matrix Partners India and Falcon Edge Capital. Till date, the company has raised $65 million in funding from its investors.

Its latest investor B Capital is a global technology fund which focuses on industry vertical such as fintech, healthcare, industrial logistics, and consumer firms. Eduardo Saverin, partner at B Capital, will join Ms wipe’ s board.

The startup will use the fresh capital to expand its payment acceptance network through tieups with retail merchants for card and digital payments, and to strengthen its product developmen­t capability.

Mswipe is an independen­t merchant acquire rand payment services provider based out of Mumbai. It makes mobile PoS (mP OS) devices for merchants, a cheaper variety of the more bulky PoS device convention­ally provided by banks. Apart from mP oS devices, the company also has a payment gateway for processing payments online and an automated payment settlement system for merchants. It has deployed a network of 280,000 Po S terminals in India across 650 towns and cities in India since its inception in 2011.

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