17th Feb: FintechYatra is a 10,000 km long road journey across India to catalyse India's fintech ecosystem by having conversations with over 400+ fintech startups. If you're a fintech founder looking for subject matter expertise, network access and venture capital, register to have a 1-1 conversation with us - yatra.connexdoor.com
Fintech Yatra Conversations In Pune. Discover how UPI is changing lives across India with Fintech Yatra. Our on-ground events and demos showcase how people from diverse backgrounds are using UPI for easy, fast, and secure transactions. Watch our latest video to see how Hariprasad uses UPI to simplify his life. He's just one of the many UPI ambassadors spreading awareness and encouraging safe digital transactions. Don't miss out!
Fintech Yatra 2023 Powered by National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI) & Protean eGov Technologies Ltd. (Formerly NSDL eGovernance Infrastructure Ltd.)
During the course of Yatra, we conducted a Digital Financial Literacy Workshop for Chaitanya Kalpana Pant and its federation - Grameen Mahila Swayam Siddh Sangha and Richa Pant. A group of approx. 35 women participants were eager to ask questions around UPI, WhatsApp, Government Schemes, Insurance, Pensions, etc. Our learnings with this session were as follows:
And we kicked-off our Bengaluru Fintech Yatra Conversations, and what a fantastic day to have interaction with seven interesting startups across different domains - Insurance, Enterprise Tech, Climate Finance, Alternative Investments, Lending, Neo-banking & Payments. #FintechYatra is a 10,000 km long journey across India to catalyze India's fintech ecosystem by having conversations with over 400+ fintech startups.
Bangalore Fintech Yatra Conversations! Bangalore, Day 1: Is there a funding slowdown? Yes. But there's no dearth of interesting use-case and ideas coming out of early stage fintech founders. We had another eight interesting conversations across segments - Fintech in a logistics space, trade finance, BNPL solution for the B2B segment, cross-border payments startup, and fintech for creator economy.
Bangalore, Day 2: Fintech Yatra conversation ends with next set of interesting use cases and emerging ideas across - Agri-Fintech value chain, Wealth-tech Distribution, Omnichannel payments platform for businesses, a fintech solving for pensions in private employee workforce, gold-lending, and construction-tech solving for funding in real-estate value chain.
A key agenda for Fintech Yatra 2023 is building awareness around digital transaction literacy among marginalised communities.
We started by conducting a session on Digital Financial Inclusion (Payments, Lending, Savings) for Aastha Parivar, an organisation committed to the betterment of commercial sex workers in association with Harmony INC. (An organisation focused on CSR & ESG adoption among businesses).
As we conducted these sessions in Mumbai, our focus was on day-to-day use cases like - Getting UTS (Unreserved Ticketing system) activated. UTS facilitates Unreserved journey passengers' ticketing needs and is the best tool to ease out local train journeys in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and many other cities.
Bangalore Day 6 Fintech Yatra Conversations end with some exciting and interesting use cases like accounting apps for SMBs, fintech providing API for business data, wealth-tech solutions, robo-advisory platform, investment platform in climate finance, and a few more.
#FintechYatra is a 10,000 km long journey across India to catalyze India's fintech ecosystem by having conversations with over 400+ fintech startups.
Ashish Singhal, a Banking, Fintech, Digital, Analytics, Board Member, and Strategic Investor, decided to join us and share his set of learnings with Fintech founders. In between one of the conversations, he stated, "Organisation and life are not built on curtailing expenses but increasing revenue pools.
Bangalore Fintech Yatra Conversations on Day 8 ends with some good set of interesting use cases like lending infrastructure, unified data platform, insurtech digitising distribution network and a fintech startup bringing a fresh perspective on how women purchase financial products.
#FintechYatra is a 10,000 km long journey across India to catalyze India's fintech ecosystem by having conversations with over 400+ fintech startups.
Five Years of #FintechYatra.
Fintech Yatra 2023 Powered by - National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)
Year 5 marks a new milestone in our marketing journey, and what better could that be than a place in The Economic Times.
Fintech Yatra is not just a road journey but a movement to catalyse India’s fintech ecosystem.
Bangalore Fintech Yatra Conversations ends with a grand mixer. An overwhelming response from founders and venture investors after a marathon session of 90+ conversations with fintech startups. A huge shout out to Ashish Singhal, who decided to join these conversations and share his wisdom and experience of the banking world.
Chennai #FintechYatra Conversations Day 1 had 9 interesting conversations across segments like employee benefits platform, senior bankers starting up, fintech in logistics space, a fintech solving for disputes and chargebacks, supply chain finance and more. Chennai Fintech Yatra Conversations Day 2! Chennai never stops to amaze us with the kind of quality conversations we get to have every year. We had some great conversations today around - specialised loan origination platform for automotive finance, a boot-strapped startup working on cyber-security, a platform for green-finance, and more.
Banglore Fintech Yatra Conversations
It was a privilege for us to be able to conduct sessions and explain what digital payments are, how to use them, how to be careful about fraudulent transactions, how a debit card works and more.
As part of Fintech Yatra and beyond it, we will continue to aim to drive this as a mission of spreading awareness about financial literacy and push for a better and informed inclusive India.
As we closed our Chennai conversations, as a closure, we did our 4th financial inclusion session with Pratham Education Foundation on Digital financial literacy in association with Harmony INC. and volunteers from M2P Fintech.
This was for the trainees learning beautician trade. We covered following:
In our pursuit of being on ground and carefully analysing the fintech landscape also gives us an opportunity to conduct sessions around Financial Inclusion across varied groups.
One such session we had organised in association with Grow Dr Reddy's Foundation and Richa Pant in Hyderabad.
We adopted the method of Train the Trainer for Skill Development and shared some sessions on:
In our ongoing series of Financial Inclusion Sessions as part of Fintech Yatra with Harmony INC., we conducted a session with the TYCIA Foundation focusing on the rehabilitation of youth who are undergoing trials but not convicted via Project Second Chance. It aims towards providing livelihoods as part of the rehabilitation.
We met up with these youth who now have a stable income and were keen to understand digital financial literacy. We touched on several aspects in the session, like,
Delhi Fintech Yatra Conversations Day 1-3
After cruising over across India and interacting with founders in Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai & Hyderabad, we kickstarted our Delhi Fintech Yatra conversations from Monday onwards and have had some interesting conversations.
Two themes that are clearly coming out of Delhi Conversations are:
Delhi Fintech Yatra Conversations (Day 3-7)
In February 2022, Delhi NCR became the startup capital of India. In line with this, we have seen a significant jump in our Fintech Yatra conversations over the last few years.
In our initial days of Fintech Yatra 2023 conversations in Delhi, we saw two key themes emerging - Supply Chain Finance & EV Finance.
Over last four days, most of our conversations have been around SME Lending, Fintech startups building on Wealth Management and Micro-lending.
