{"id":8007,"date":"2016-08-30T16:16:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T10:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/?p=8007"},"modified":"2016-08-31T11:03:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T05:33:39","slug":"paytm-raises-300-mn-4-8-billion-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/?p=8007","title":{"rendered":"Paytm Raises $300 Mn At $4.8 Billion Valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Again Paytm Makes in the News!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>About Funding<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Renowned Indian online payment and e-commerce startup <a href=\"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/union-big-bazaar-paytm-huge-step-history-e-commerce-industry\/\">Paytm<\/a> raises $300 million from a group of investors led by Taiwanese semiconductor maker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediatek.com\/\">MediaTek<\/a>. With this investment, the valuation of the Noida-based Paytm will become more than double, which comes to over $4.8 billion. Paytm\u2019s existing investors include Alibaba, its payments affiliate Alipay and SAIF Partners also participated in the funding round.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>More on Paytm<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Bottom of Form<\/p>\n<p>Paytm, which is based in Noida outside New Delhi, was founded by entrepreneur Vijay Shekhar Sharma and was first known as an e-commerce platform that competed with Flipkart Online Services Ltd. and Snapdeal, which are backed by global investors including Accel Partners, SoftBank and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner\u2019s GST Global.<\/p>\n<p>Where will Paytm utilize $300 Mn? Please share your thoughts in the comments section below.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe with us to get your dose of interesting news, research &amp; opinions in the startup segment. Fill the form below:<em><br \/>\n<\/em>[email-subscribers namefield=&#8221;YES&#8221; desc=&#8221;&#8221; group=&#8221;Public&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again Paytm Makes in the News! About Funding Renowned Indian online payment and e-commerce startup Paytm raises $300 million from a group of investors led by Taiwanese semiconductor maker MediaTek. With this investment, the valuation of the Noida-based Paytm will become more than double, which comes to over $4.8 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":8010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,21],"tags":[2911,31,106,1605,2907,2908,2910,228,2906,70,875,2909,2163],"class_list":["post-8007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-latest-news","category-start-up","tag-e-commerce-platform","tag-funding","tag-india","tag-male-entrepreneur","tag-mediatek","tag-noida","tag-online-payment","tag-paytm","tag-paytm-valuation","tag-startup","tag-startup-buzz","tag-taiwan","tag-vijay-shekhar-sharma"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/shutteggggrstock_158512679.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8035,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions\/8035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}