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And That was democratizing online payments for Indian businesses, particularly the underserved market, Startups and SMEs. Over the last 9 years, Razorpay has evolved from a single-product company to a multi-product company, from an online payment gateway to India’s only full-stack financial solutions company, offering payments and banking solutions to businesses. Razorpay today is transforming age-old complexities and changing every known paradigm of money movement for disruptive businesses.\r\n\r\nOver the last couple of years, Razorpay’s growth has evolved to be an index of India’s digital economy. From a kirana shop in Kashmir collecting payments on our POS device to a textile exporter in Kanyakumari accepting dollars through our International Payments product, Razorpay has revolutionised how businesses have traditionally transacted and interacted with money. \r\n\r\nRazorpay became the first and only Indian fintech to build a full-stack international Payment Gateway ‘Curlec by Razorpay’ and evolved into a comprehensive provider of payment solutions, leveraging the synergy between cutting-edge technological capabilities and a profound understanding of the local payment ecosystem. The introduction of the new Curlec Payment Gateway aims to cater to a wide spectrum of businesses, expanding its reach to over 5,000 establishments. \r\n\r\nBe it for international expansion or solving for Indian businesses, for Razorpay, the customer has always been at the core of all disruption, from addressing evolving needs to delivering new solutions. 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Other firsts include: - First to launch India’s Multi-Network Tokenisation solution, TokenHQ - Razorpay became India’s first payment gateway to support credit cards on UPI - Razorpay also became India’s largest omnichannel payment gateway for businesses post acquiring Ezetap which is India’s leading offline POS company that was founded with the aim to simplify the in-person offline payments experience.\r\n\r\nOver the years, Razorpay’s valuation has jumped from $1 billion to $7.5 billion and has added a host of marquee investors to its captable. Razorpay is also the second Indian company to be a part of Silicon Valley’s largest tech accelerator, Y Combinator. Marquee investors such as Lone Pine Capital, Alkeon Capital, TCV, GIC, Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital India, Ribbit Capital, Matrix Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Y Combinator, and MasterCard have invested a total of $741.5 Mn through Series A, B, C, D, E and F funding. 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However, we encountered significant hurdles with existing payment gateway systems. This experience opened our eyes to the challenges faced by Indian businesses, particularly Startups and small businesses, in accepting payments online.Determined to address this gap, we decided to establish Razorpay, driven by a mission to democratize payments for startups and SMEs. Armed with research and fueled by our passion for solving real-world problems, we set out to create a platform that offers simple, affordable, and secure payment solutions.For us, perseverance has been a way of life. We are relentless in our pursuit of identifying and solving the financial challenges faced by small businesses. Whether it's rain or shine, we push through obstacles until we find viable solutions. This resilience has been the cornerstone of Razorpay's growth, propelling us from 10,000 partner businesses in 2017 to over 5 million today." }, { "question": "How did you decide to apply to Y Combinator? 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All of those are important questions to discuss internally, and so at a minimum, we thought applying would help us zero in on succinct, precise answers to give both of us clarity, even if we didn't get in.But thankfully our efforts paid off, and we did make the cut. When Shashank Kumar and I found out in late 2014 we'd been accepted into Y Combinator, we figured we'd need to split our time between running Razorpay in Bangalore and joining our fellow founders in Silicon Valley. It was only a few months after we had launched Razorpay and we were afraid of abandoning our customers, even for a bit, just as we were getting off the ground. Ignoring that temptation and spending the full three months of YC in Mountain View was one of the best decisions we ever made.It was a good call to stay in US and not fly back and forth to India, because if we had, we'd have missed out on the full benefit of YC — spending valuable time with the other founders in our batch, meeting successful alumni and building relationships throughout the YC community, and getting mentored by YC partners and other investors.Now, 9 years later, we couldn't be more proud to be [YC's first Indian unicorn](https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/11/razorpay-100-million-billion-valuation-unicorn/). I can honestly say that although we had to work harder during those three months than at any other time in my life, with countless 20-hour days attending YC sessions and dinners and then working late nights supporting our customers in India, I wouldn't change a thing. That's why the best advice I can give to any Indian founder considering YC is to go all in on it the same way we did. The priceless, irreplaceable learning happens when you least expect it — during a late-night drink with another founder in your batch, maybe, or in a spur-of-the-moment meeting with a YC partner. You can't say you'll do 60% or 80% of the YC program, because you can't know where 60% or 80% of YC's advantage is. So figure out how to get 100% of the benefit of it; it'll be hard, and exhausting, definitely, but you will never regret it." }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? 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We decided to be founders and create a company that valued people’s contributions honestly and cut through the corporate bullshit.After successfully cold-calling head executives from some of the largest corporate cafeteria operators on the planet, we received many enthusiastic responses to our description of Mashgin’s Touchless Checkout System. He then set out to actually build it.After successfully building and demoing a Mashgin prototype to the YC team, Mashgin went from “project” to “company” over the course of the Winter 15 Batch." }, { "question": "How did you decide to apply to Y Combinator? What was your experience applying, going through the batch, and fundraising at demo day?", "answer": "We applied to YC very late, just a few days before the start of W15 batch. We were in the middle of raising a seed round and through our suboptimal interactions with investors, we realized that we needed YC guidance to help us raise a round on good terms. Our YC experience was amazing, if a bit overwhelming at times. YC partners forced us to think clearly about the next steps. At one point they had us go door to door to every business in Mountain View downtown to try and sell our product. We made our first sale that day and we’ll never forget that experience! Fundraising post YC was every bit what we imagined it to be. It made the entire process super smooth and easy." }, { "question": "What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? What were the big inflection points?", "answer": "When we started the company in 2014, our initial goal was to improve the checkout experience in corporate dining facilities, cafeterias, and sports stadiums. We aimed to use computer vision and machine learning technology to create a much more efficient and convenient experience for customers. Entering YC and getting to demo day with a major letter of intent was a big moment for the company, giving us the experience and fundraising to make Mashgin market-ready over the following few years.However, with the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 and the subsequent lockdowns, we had to pivot our focus to the convenience store space as corporate offices closed and retail demand for self-checkout solutions skyrocketed.During the pandemic we were able to secure an enormous deal with Circle K, one of the largest convenience store chains in the world, for 10,000 kiosks across their global portfolio of stores. 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