NEW DELHI/BENGALURU (Reuters) - Indian digital payments company Paytm said on Monday it has raised fresh funds from a group of investors, including existing backers such as SoftBank's Vision Fund and Alibaba's Ant Financial.
Paytm did not officially disclose details of the funding, but a source said the Indian company raised $1 billion (£779.42 million) in the latest round.
Accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates were among the new investors for the fund, Paytm said in a statement https://blog.paytm.com/announcing-our-fundraise-from-leading-global-investors-4dc5378691e3.
Financial daily Economic Times quoted https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/newsbuzz/paytm-gets-1-billion-topup-in-latest-financing-round/articleshow/72216174.cms Paytm Chief Executive Officer Vijay Shekhar Sharma as saying the round would lift the company's valuation to $16 billion.
The company will expand into insurance, lending and investments and invest 100 billion rupees ($1.39 billion) over the next three years to include more users in the country, Paytm said.
(Reporting by Sankalp Phartiyal inNew Delhi and Derek Francis in Bengaluru, Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)
