Upswing Financial Technologies, an open finance B2B ecosystem enabler has raised $4 million from marquee global fund QED investors and a clutch of other fintech founders. Upswing is founded by former bankers Anupam Bagchi and Nihar Gupta.
The funding will be used by Upswing in building plug-and-play platforms for open finance and help fintechs and consumer tech players offer financial services seamlessly. The company said it is working with a few leading banks on the stack which will go live in a phased manner in 2022.
Anupam Bagchi, Co-Founder, Upswing said, “In this decade of banking, consumers will opt to access their financial services from any digital interface, which may necessarily not belong to a bank. Upswing’s open finance-as-a-service platform is highly customisable, simple and modular and will significantly reduce the integration efforts of consumer tech players to launch financial products like savings accounts, deposits and lending services.”
Sandeep Patil, Partner and Head of Asia at QED Investors, said “We are thrilled to join Upswing on this journey. In the coming decade, consumer companies will ubiquitously offer banking and financial products. Upswing will be a vital ecosystem player providing consumer-centric solutions as well as the right compliance and security infrastructure.
“Anupam and Nihar bring deep sector experience and complementary expertise. We have no doubt that they will assemble an all-star team to tackle this vital mission,” Patil said.
“We feel a deep understanding of the banking world is a prerequisite to make a nuanced open finance platform, said Nihar Gupta, Co-Founder, Upswing.
He added, “Our extensive understanding of banking systems and fintech needs will help us in building platforms, which will essentially empower the financial institutions with greater reach. It will allow consumer tech players to offer differentiated financial products in a much shorter timeframe of weeks instead of months, sometimes even years.”
Fintech founders like Kunal Shah of Cred, Jiten Gupta of Jupiter, Rajan Bajaj. of Slice, Lalit Keshre of Groww, Anurag Sinha of One Card, Shivashish Chatterjee of DMI Finance, Kunal Bahl of Snapdeal, Sumit Gwalani and Sujith Narayanan of Epifi further participated in the round.
The round also saw participation from funds like Better Capital, Amara VC, Multiply
Ventures, Capier Investments, Utsav Somani from AngelList.
Prior to Upswing, Anupam and Nihar were senior career bankers with institutions including
Kotak, Axis, Standard Chartered and NPCI. They also helped build neobank Jupiter in their
leadership roles.
