Gold-Focused Digital Locker, Credit Platform Indiagold Raises $12 Million Funds
News 18India is a country obsessed with gold. One such company is Indiagold –which provides a safe locker facility along with an option to secure the loan against your gold stashed in the house. The round of funding was led by Prosus’ PayU and Falcon’s Alpha Wave Incubation along with participation from 3one4 Capital, Rainmatter Capital, Better Tomorrow Ventures, and existing investor Leo Capital. Indiagold, founded by two former Paytm executives Nitin Misra and Deepak Abbot, is a gold-focused digital alternative credit platform that’s using gold to determine customer creditworthiness and provide APIs to banks and other lenders if they want to enter this space. The start-up, which currently is operational in the National Capital Region and Indore, has two major offerings –providing low-cost safe locker facilities and enabling the option of gold loan to the customer.