About Company
About Company:PayU India is the flagship company of Naspers group, a $70 Billion internet and media conglomerate listed on London and Johannesburg stock exchanges respectively. PayU provides payment gateway solutions to online businesses through its cutting-edge and award winning technology. With a heritage in payments, PayU has a strong track record creating fast, simple and efficient financial services technologies that meet the unique needs of the merchants and consumers in 16 high growth markets. The mission of the company is to create a safe and secure ecosystem that enables anybody to make or receive payments. Bringing convenience and trust through continuous innovation leveraging technology. PayU India, a 100% subsidiary of PayU, is broadly targeting three areas of growth - faster payments, credit, and digital or app based banks. In India, PayU covers nearly 60% of the airline business and 80% of the entire ecommerce business and processes over ?40,000 crore of digital payments annually. It is the countrys leading payment processor and is doing over ?6,000 crore worth of transactions on a monthly basis, the highest in the industry. PayU's payment gateway has a transaction success rate 10% higher than competitor platforms. PayU is headquartered in Sohna Road, Gurgaon and has regional offices in Mumbai, Bangalore and Pune. With over 800 employees across India, it has dedicated teams for sales, operations, customer support, dispute resolution and marketing.PayU India LeadershipB. Amrish Rau is the CEO of PayU in India and reports to PayU Global CEO, Laurent le Moal. PayU India cofounder Shailaz Nag, as COO, focuses on Payments business & bank partnerships, while Jitendra Gupta, Founder Citrus heads the credit business at PayU. Product Portfolio PayUbiz is the industry leading payment gateway and its clientele includes the likes of Jet Airways, Amazon, Airtel, Snapdeal, Jabong, Ola, Bookmyshow, Insurance companies and many more. PayU India also has under its aegis PayUmoney, the fast, easy and secure payment solution which can be used by anyone who wants to collect payments in India (be it individuals, brick & mortar businesses, startups, freelancers, schools, hotels, utility companies, residential societies, telcos, insurance companies, traders, retailers etc.) PayUs offerings are presently used by over 3,00,000 merchants all across India.Driven with the zeal to create powerful financial services solutions, PayU acquired Citrus Pay, a Mumbai based Fintech Company in September 2016. At the time of the acquisition, PayU India and Citrus Pay were doing transactions of about ?3,300 crore cumulatively. In the pasteight months, PayU India has seen growth of 80%. After the merger, PayU has been focusing its energies in building its consumer vertical and launched its flagship product LazyPay, online deferral payment option in early 2017. LazyPay is currently live on merchants such as PVR, Box8, Zomato, Jazz Cinemas, Netmeds and Innerchef, D Vois, AbhiBus, Fasoos, FreshMenu and many more.Mergers and Acquisitions / InvestmentsAcquisitions:DateAcquiredAmountSep 14, 2016Citrus Payment Solutions$ 130 MInvestments:DateInvested InAmountMay 2017Kreditech (Global)$ 120MDec 2016Zest Money (India)$ 3.7MPayU has also invested $120 million in a German alternative lending startup named Kreditech, and the deal will see the Peter Thiel and IFC-backed startup entering India and working with PayU India on launching credit products in the country.PayU also invested $3.7 million into the startup ZestMoney for a 20% stake in the company