Zeta (company)

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Zeta
Zeta Services logo.png
Type of business Privately held company
Founded2015
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founder(s) Bhavin Turakhia
Ramki Gaddipati
Key people Bhavin Turakhia (CEO)
Ramki Gaddipati (CTO)
Employees1000-5000
Parent Zeta Services Inc.
URL www.zeta.tech/us/
CommercialYes
RegistrationRequired
Current statusOnline

Zeta is a next-gen banking tech company by founders Bhavin Turakhia and Ramki Gaddipati in 2015. The company provides credit and debit card issuer processing, BNPL, core banking and "mobile experiences". [1] Zeta provides its products to banks and fintechs. [2] [3] [4]

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History

The company was founded in April 2015 by Bhavin Turakhia [5] and Ramki Gaddipati. [6] Its initial offerings were for employee tax benefits, automated cafeterias, employee gifting and digital payments. [7] In 2016, Bhavin Turakhia invested around $19 million into Zeta. [8] Initially, Zeta payments was only supported by the MasterCard network but later the company also tied-up with the National Payments Corporation of India's RuPay. [9] In June 2017, the company invested 5-10 crore to buy a minority stake in an HR company called ZingHR. [10] [11] Zeta has partnerships with IDFC Bank, [12] Sodexo, [13] Excelity Global, [14] Kotak Mahindra Bank [15] [16] and RBL Bank. [9] Zeta launched the first employee benefits survey in India along with Nielsen Holdings in April 2018. [17] It also bought a minority stake in PeopleStrong in January 2018. [18] In 2019, Zeta received an investment from Sodexo BRS at a valuation of $300 million. [19] In 2020, Zeta launched its technology platform-as-a-service in the Philippines and Vietnam with Sodexo being its first client in these countries. [20] In 2021, Zeta secured Series C investment of $250 million from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 valuing Zeta at $1.45 billion. [21] This is one of the largest single investments] in a banking tech startup globally. [22]

Merger

Zeta's employee benefits business merged with Sodexo BRS India in 2019. [23]

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