{"id":442,"date":"2014-11-13T09:21:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T03:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.instamojo.com\/?p=442"},"modified":"2021-01-22T14:28:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T08:58:36","slug":"instamojo-com-funding-kalaari-capital-democratize-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.instamojo.com\/blog\/instamojo-com-funding-kalaari-capital-democratize-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Instamojo.com Raises Series A From Kalaari Capital To Democratize Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have some news\u00a0for you today, and we are very excited about it. Even more so, we are super excited to share this moment with you &amp; congratulate you as well.<\/p>\n<p>We have raised our Series A funding from Kalaari Capital to build our vision of <strong>democratizing payments for everyone<\/strong>\u00a0viz, individuals, micro-merchants, infopreneurs, freelancers, SMBs etc with our\u00a0innovative link-based payments platform. Our previous investors like Blume Ventures, US-based <a title=\"500Startups\" href=\"https:\/\/500.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">500Startups<\/a>\u00a0and others have also participated in this round.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instamojo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Instamojo.com_team_party_Nov2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5164\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instamojo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Instamojo.com_team_party_Nov2014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.instamojo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Instamojo.com_team_party_Nov2014.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.instamojo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Instamojo.com_team_party_Nov2014-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.instamojo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Instamojo.com_team_party_Nov2014-768x453.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.instamojo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Instamojo.com_team_party_Nov2014-1024x604.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.instamojo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Instamojo.com_team_party_Nov2014-960x566.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We plan to spend this money on marketing, product development &amp; expanding the current team across all functions (p.s. we are hiring in Bangalore). Part of this involves setting up our new office in Bangalore too.<\/p>\n<p>That means, you should expect a far better product experience. Or in short, you shouldn&#8217;t expect anything less than brilliant from us.<\/p>\n<p>As you know, we have always positioned ourselves as the &#8220;<strong>iOS platform of the payments industry<\/strong>&#8221; where we are working hard to remove barriers of entry like\u00a0technical know-how, upfront costs, providing access to distribution channels on web &amp; mobile and thus boosting time to market for small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that with our new technology &amp; fresh approach, we are able to create\u00a0a frictionless payments ecosystem that fosters product innovation. Thus, creating a level playing ground for micro-merchants to leverage internet, mobile &amp; payments together to create newer opportunities and livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>And we are excited to have <a title=\"Kalaari Capital\" href=\"https:\/\/kalaari.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kalaari Capital<\/a> partner with us in that journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Vani Kola, Managing Director, Kalaari Capital will\u00a0join our board along with Karthik Reddy, Managing Partner of Blume Ventures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To celebrate this, we are soon going to launch our\u00a0&#8220;<strong>Referral program<\/strong>&#8221; for everyone, so both buyers and sellers alike can <strong>earn<\/strong> by simply referring their friends to Instamojo and enabling them to collect payments online. So watch out this space for more!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Finally, a big thank you for being patient all this while and helping us learn a thing or two about how we should serve you better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A big thank you\u2026cheers!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Sampad Swain \/ Co-founder &amp; CEO \/ sampad@instamojo.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have some news\u00a0for you today, and we are very excited about it. 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