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BUSINESS·2 min read·Jan 26, 2021

Kunal Shah, Deepak Abbot, and more put $1 M in ex-Paytm executives established Junio

Junio, a youngsters focussed fintech startup, has raised $1 million heavenly attendant subsidizing drove by Kunal Shah of CRED, Ashneer Grover of Bharat Pe, Yashish Dahiya of PolicyBazaar, Pravin Jadhav of First Check, Deepak Abbot of IndiaGold, and Amit Lakhotia, of Park+. Shankar Nath, Co-originat

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Junio, a youngsters focussed fintech startup, has raised $1 million heavenly attendant subsidizing drove by Kunal Shah of CRED, Ashneer Grover of Bharat Pe, Yashish Dahiya of PolicyBazaar, Pravin Jadhav of First Check, Deepak Abbot of IndiaGold, and Amit Lakhotia, of Park+.

Shankar Nath, Co-originator of Junio stated, “The subsidizing will be utilized for building up the item, reinforcing the group, and client obtaining.”

Ankit Gera, Co-originator of Junio, said the group is excited to have fruitful business people and financial specialists rest their confidence in Junio.

“Going ahead, their direction and business sharpness will be a colossal resource for us. In the months ahead, we will zero in on building a natural, easy to understand item alongside supportable client obtaining activities,” he added.

Established before the end of last year by Shankar and Ankit, previous senior chiefs of Paytm, Junio’s item is a youngsters centered savvy card that allows them to make computerized and actual buys.

The point of the startup is to fabricate a savvy card for a youngster’s pocket cash to make a local area of monetarily shrewd and enabled more youthful age.

The group has tied up with RBL Bank for giving the card. The co-marked card will be running as a pre-loaded card. It is associated with an application, which the guardians have, to advance reserve funds for an expensive thing.

Ankit added that separated from this, the application additionally permits kids to bring in cash to advance alluring conduct.

“The thought is to give youngsters their own installment instrument, where they have the ability to choose where they use it and spend it on. Clearly with the direction of their folks. The guardians load the card with the month to month pocket cash for their youngsters,” said Shankar.

As of now, Junio permits guardians to either have an actual card or simply the virtual installment application or both. The actual card has a membership charge of Rs 40 to Rs 60 every month.

The group is likewise hoping to procure through MDR for every exchange. This is somewhere in the range of one and two percent. Before the current year’s over, Junio means to add 150,000 to 200,000 clients.

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