Aims to provide one-clock entry to entry point to several online merchant platforms on 'PhonePe Switch'
PhonePe has been aggressive at growing its user and merchant base
A recent Morgan Stanley report says, the Walmart group firm has potential to become a $20 bn company at current growth rate
The digital payments firm clocks 335 million transactions in July
PhonePe has received Rs 697.9 crore from its parent entity PhonePe Pvt Ltd while Pine Labs has raised about Rs 707 crore through a rights issue to its parent entity, Pine Labs Pte. Ltd
In March this year, PhonePe had raised over Rs 700 crore from its Singapore-registered parent entity, which was a part of the $500 million commitment by Flipkart
The Walmart-backed payments firm's market share stands at 33.4%, behind market leader Paytm's 42%; but its app was used in 53% of smartphones in the domestic market, compared to Paytm's 51.3%
PhonePe has grown into one of India's leading digital payments companies
The fresh capital tops up PhonePe's war-chest as the Sameer Nigam-led company looks to support user growth in a market heated up by the entry of Google Pay and Amazon Pay
PhonePe which competes with Amazon Pay, Google Pay and Paytm is currently accepted at over 3 mn merchant outlets across 130 cities. It crossed the one billion deal milestone in November 2018
This year, PhonePe is focussed on bringing more partners across categories, including travel, commute, food, hyper-local, retail and entertainment on the platform
PhonePe via Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) plans to get into a number of new verticals, including fee payments in schools and colleges, payments at hospitals and other services
Alibaba, Paytm and MobiKwik all use QR codes as a main offline payment option
The investment is part of the $500-million plan that Flipkart has chalked out for its mobile wallet in an attempt to stay ahead in competition with Paytm wallet, Google's Tez and BHIM
On Wednesday, the NPCI which runs the UPI said that the volume of transactions on the network in the month of July stood at 235.65 million
The company had also hit an annualised total payment value run rate of $20 billion in the month of May
PhonePe wants to dethrone its Alibaba and SoftBank-backed rival, Paytm, claiming that additional capital that Walmart will bring to the table will help it grow much faster
Firm claims it has the largest UPI app for merchants in India catering to over 25,000 users
Flipkart-owned digital payments firm says it has tied up with 25,000 merchants
As it is in contravention to the UPI guidelines of interoperability