Skydo, the Bengaluru-based cross-border funds platform for Indian exporters, has raised $10 million in a Sequence A funding spherical led by Susquehanna Asia Enterprise Capital, with participation from current investor Elevation Capital.
The startup, which claims to serve over 30,000 MSMEs, freelancers and startups throughout over 50 cities and processes funds in additional than 32 currencies, is among the many first entities to obtain the Reserve Financial institution of India’s in-principle authorisation as a Fee Aggregator – Cross Border (PA-CB).
Skydo positions itself as a monetary working system for exporters. The platform allows native cost assortment from shoppers in a number of nations, processes transactions at zero foreign exchange charges with clear flat pricing, and gives 24-hour settlement.
It routinely generates compliance paperwork like FIRA, and supplies a full suite of accounts receivable instruments like invoicing, cost reminders and accounting integration.
With this spherical of funding, Skydo plans to scale its native assortment community throughout greater than 20 nations in Latin America, Africa, South East Asia and the Center East.
The startup may even search regulatory licences in precedence worldwide markets, construct card acceptance infrastructure by its InstaLinks product, improve its compliance and reconciliation suite and increase developer instruments, together with APIs and webhooks for SaaS firms, marketplaces and fintech platforms.
“Indian exporters are second to none of their world ambition. Skydo goals to allow them with world-class cost infrastructure constructed from India for the world,” stated Srivatsan Sridhar, co-founder and CEO of Skydo.
“This funding fuels our mission to construct the monetary working system for world commerce, from collections, payouts, card acceptance, compliance automation and accounting reconciliation,” he added.
Skydo claims to have grown fourfold previously yr and is focusing on $5 billion in annualised cost volumes inside two years.
“We’re demonstrating that India has the expertise, compliance muscle and regulatory readability to construct world monetary infrastructure from right here, for the world,” stated co-founder Movin Jain. He stated the corporate plans to increase its world footprint and safe extra cost licences in key markets.
Bhavanipratap Rana, Funding Advisor to Susquehanna Asia Enterprise Capital, stated the framework calls for targeted gamers with robust expertise and threat programs.
“Skydo’s deal with fixing the actual prices of cross-border transactions – opacity, time, compliance threat and dealing capital blockage – is a transparent differentiator,” he stated.
Mridul Arora, Accomplice, Elevation Capital stated, “Since partnering with Skydo at their inception, we now have been extremely impressed by the workforce’s pace, execution, and unwavering product focus. They’ve finished a stellar job scaling the platform 4X within the final yr alone, constructing what is actually a customer-centric worldwide funds powerhouse.”