Fintech startups in Chennai
Payments, lending, wealthtech, neobanking and the API banking layer beneath them.
12 companies building in Fintech here.
Vineet Sukumar, Gaurav Kumar, Soumendra Ghosh
Tech-enabled NBFC providing debt to mid-market enterprises; sister to CredAvenue/Yubi. Headquartered in Chennai, India.
Gaurav Kumar
Unified digital debt platform: loan origination, co-lending, securitization, supply-chain finance. Headquartered in Chennai, India.
Madhusudanan Rangarajan, Prabhu Rangarajan, Muthukumar Ayyakkannu, Dinesh Desu, Siddharth Kukatlapalli
API infrastructure powering cards, banking, lending and payments (embedded finance). Headquartered in Chennai, India.
C.R. Chandrasekar, Srikanth Meenakshi
Online mutual-fund and wealth-management investment platform for retail investors. Headquartered in Chennai, India.
Vivek Naidu, Rajesh Venkatesan
Digital lending platform (RAPID) for loan origination, onboarding and disbursement. Headquartered in Chennai, India.
Sucharita Mukherjee, Puneet Gupta
Financial-inclusion platform providing goal-based savings/credit infrastructure to banks, NBFCs and MFIs for the underbanked. Headquartered in Chennai (IIT Madras Research Park).
Mohanraj Ravi, Sundar B
Unified payment-processing infrastructure for banks and fintechs (switching/acquiring). Headquartered in Chennai, India.
Gold-backed financial services connecting users to institutions for doorstep gold loans. Headquartered in Nungambakkam, Chennai.
Ankit Ratan, Ankur Pandey, Arpit Ratan
AI-powered digital onboarding and identity verification for banks and NBFCs. HQ Bengaluru/Mumbai, not Chennai — flagged for verification.
Vishranth Suresh
B2B platform for mutual-fund distributors: onboarding, portfolio and transaction tools. Headquartered in Chennai, India.
Jai Kumar, Mohan Karuppiah, Thangaraj Sofiya
Payments platform for Tier 2/3 micro-merchants via QR, UPI and POS software. Headquartered in Chennai, India.
Naveen Doraiswamy, Anbu Gounder
Biometric in-app bank payments / authentication technology. HQ Milpitas, California, USA — flagged, not Chennai-HQ.
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