WeRize
FinTech
Investing Stage & Year
Seed, 2019
Founding Year
2019
Status
Active
FinTech
ConsumerTech

India’s First Socially Distributed Full Stack Financial Services Platform for Small Town India

WeRize is creating a new category in Indian financial services space. It takes a full stack approach where it manufactures as well as uses social distribution to sell customised credit, group insurance and savings products for customers living in 4000+ small cities in India that are currently not serviced by traditional financial services players.

Leadership

Himanshu Gupta
Himanshu Gupta
Co-founder & CEO
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Vishal Chopra
Vishal Chopra
Co-founder & CEO
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Why Did Kalaari Invest in WeRize?

WeRize is building India’s first full stack financial services platform for 500Mn underserved customers in 4,000+ small towns of India that traditional players as well as fintechs are not able to serve. It has used 1 billion+ data points to design customised credit, insurance, and savings products.

Additionally, since small town India customers need high touch sales and after sales, it has created a unique freelancer social distribution technology platform (β€œSocial Shopify of Finance”) where thousands of financially literate freelancers sell WeRize’s products in their social circle.

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