Our Sponsors and Partners

Capital Float

Capital Float is a digital finance company serving small businesses and startups in India. We provide fast, flexible, and transparent working capital finance to Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) looking to grow their customer base, purchase inventory, or manage cash flows. Borrowers can apply online in minutes, and receive funds within 7 days.

 

Our innovative lending products are ideal for young, rapidly growing companies that have successfully initiated business relationships with reputed corporate clients. We are currently in private beta mode and serving businesses in Bangalore and Mumbai.
Sign up at www.capitalfloat.com to learn more and join our platform.

Capital Float

Capital Float is a digital finance company which provides working capital finance for SMEs in India. We offer flexible, short-term loans that can be used to purchase inventory, service new orders or optimize cash cycles. Borrowers can apply online in minutes, select desired repayment terms and receive funds in their bank accounts in 3 days with minimal hassle. Capital Float’s mission is to bridge the current gap in the market with financial products for SMEs, delivered in an efficient and customer-friendly manner.

  • Capital Float was founded in 2013 in Bangalore and serves customers in over forty cities.

  • The company was co-founded by alumni of the prestigious Stanford University-  Sashank Rishyasringa who was earlier associated with McKinsey & Company and Gaurav Hinduja, the head of operations for his family business, Gokaldas Exports

  • Capital Float has raised a total of $42 million to date

  • The number of applications processed increased by 10 times in 2014. Capital Float now receives an enquiry every ten minutes on the website.

Capital Numbers

Capital Numbers offer Web, Mobile and Digital Marketing Solutions to StartUps, Small Businesses and to those companies that prefer to either keep their technical team small or, sub-contract any overflow work they cannot handle in-house. Companies looking to outsource often make a costly mistake by hiring freelancers which is bit of a hit-and-miss or, working with large consultancies which often do not deliver enough value. At Capital Numbers, we engage dedicated small, smart teams for our clients who help them focus more on their business objectives rather than worry about technical stuff. For all intents and purposes we function as your extended team working from our development center in India.

Using our services, clients enjoy the Cost benefits and Flexibility of hiring through online portals such as Odesk or, Elance and Quality, Reliability and Privacy of working with established consultancies. Capital Numbers started operating in June 2012 with an initial team of 2 people. In the past 3 year we have grown to a team of 250+full-time professionals working under the same roof. We are an ISO 9001 Certified company and also registered with Duns-and-Bradstreet in India.

The company was awarded the prestigious “SME of the Year 2014” by The Telegraph and Reliance Money at INFOCOM. We got clients across 4 different continents and the experience of working in over 1000+different projects of varying complexity. Some of our clients include Conde Nast, Dell, LandRover, ThomsonRueters, Boston Childrens
Hospital, My Payment Systems, Harvard University, Duke University, Doosan, Ordina,Edelman etc.

CapitaLand

CapitaLand Group (CapitaLand) is one of Asia’s largest diversified real estate groups. Headquartered in Singapore, CapitaLand’s portfolio spans across diversified real estate classes which include integrated developments, retail, office, lodging, residential, business parks, industrial, logistics and data centres. CapitaLand’s global presence spans across more than 260 cities in over 40 countries. 

CapitaLand has a global real estate network that extends to data centres. Our customers include multinational companies from cloud, ecommerce and telecommunications. The Group currently has four data centres in Singapore, 11 in Europe, one each in China and India, and it is the fund and asset manager for the development of two data centres in Korea.

Capwise Financial Services

Capwise Financial Services Pvt ltd

Cashfree Payments

Founded in 2015 by Akash Sinha and Reeju Datta, Cashfree Payments is a leading and fast-growing payments and API banking solutions company, based in Bangalore. Cashfree Payments provides a full stack payments solution enabling businesses in India to collect payments and make payouts via all available methods with a single integration. Cashfree Payments is the leading payment processor for payment disbursals with more than 50% market share.

Cashfree Payments was founded with the vision of enabling businesses in India to accept and disburse payments around the clock. At present, it is amongst the leading payment service providers in India processing transactions worth  USD 40 billion annually.

With the mission to use innovative technology & excellent service to provide the best payment experience to users, Cashfree Payments has so far launched 16 products with 6 industry-firsts, and continues to innovate to advance digital payments in India and across the globe. Cashfree Payment has also been a pioneer in banking transactions via API or API Banking, which leads a rapid technological shift in global fintech.

Cashfree Payments works with more than 1,50,000 companies to offer solutions such as payment collections, vendor payouts, wage payouts, bulk refunds, expense reimbursements, loyalty, and rewards.

Incubated by payments pioneer PayPal, Cashfree Payments is backed by Apis Partners, Smilegate and the famed Silicon-Valley startup accelerator Y-Combinator, Cashfree Payments has been profitable since 2016). India's leading lender, the State Bank of India (SBI) has recently made a strategic  investment in the organisation to reinforce the shared vision of promoting digital modes of payments.

Through partnerships with brands like Zomato, Cred, Nykaa, Delhivery, Acko and Shell Cashfree Payments has  launched several personalized products and solutions for specific business use cases to elevate end-user experiences. Cashfree Payments works closely with all leading banks to build the core payments and banking infrastructure that powers the company’s products, and  is also integrated with major platforms such as Shopify, Wix, Paypal, Amazon Pay, Paytm and Google Pay. Apart from India, Cashfree Payments’ products are used in  eight other countries including  the USA, Canada and the UAE.

Catalyst

CATALYST is an initiative funded by USAID under the mSTAR Program, through funding provided to FHI 360. Housed within IFMR LEAD, the initiative aims to expand digital payments and financial inclusion in India, especially for small merchants and low-income consumers. Catalyst seeks to bridge the financial divide by solving market failures through a local ecosystem approach. Through its digital payment lab and business incubator, Catalyst works with a range of stakeholders to design, test and validate workable solutions for the underserved and enable evidence-based decision-making to advance policy priorities. Its research and learning activities generate user insights on needs, behaviors, perceptions and motivations. Catalyst’s flagship knowledge forum ‘FINposium’ convenes innovators, policymakers and sector experts to design collaborative solutions to digital payment challenges.

Centrum

Centrum Group is an integrated domestic financial services conglomerate with over two decades of experience in the financial markets across various cycles. It has expertise across Equity & Debt spectrum with capabilities in Equity Capital Markets, M&A Advisory, Corporate Finance & Advisory, Primary & Secondary Debt Placement, Project Finance and Corporate Debt Restructuring. Its retail arm provides integrated solutions for Private Wealth Management, Stock Broking, SME Finance and Housing Finance.

Certus Technologies

eKAVACH is India’s first and most comprehensive digital parenting solution that is designed specially to increase parental awareness about their kid’s activity online and in the social media.
 
Blending modern technology and Indian socio-cultural aspects, eKAVACH is developed specifically for parents of school and college-going children. It equips them with information which can help them become better and smarter parents in the digital era and adopt technology as an integral part of their children’s upbringing in a safe, secure and friendly manner.

 

eKAVACH offers unique insights about the behavior and activities of kids, when they are online and on the move, which can help parents to make better and more informed decisions about their children.It offers sufficient protection to kids from falling prey to cyber bullying, online grooming, inappropriate web content and other forms of online security risks.

 

eKAVACH is powered by Certus Technologies, a new entrant in the mobile solution space. The company’s focus is to promote innovative usage of technology in tackling contemporary and emerging issues within education and social sector. The company is promoted by a group of senior professionals, who have collective experience of 40+ years across diverse domains such as banking, technology, shipping, logistics and financial services.