“Can a vertically integrated NBFC own the financing rails of India's entire corporate-to-retailer distribution supply chain?”
Founded 2017 to solve collateral-free inventory financing for SMEs in India's ~$450B Corporate-Distributor-Retailer supply chain. Operates its own RBI-registered NBFC (Mintifi Finserve Pvt Ltd) — lending is in-house, not orchestrated. Expanded from short-term purchase credit lines into electronic invoicing & payments (EIPP), and recently into dealer management, loans against property, and cross-border factoring following its $180M Series E.
Mintifi processes payments through Mintifi EIPP (self-operated).
Mintifi's lending and capital products are provided by Mintifi Finserve Private Limited (in-house).
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 2 layers in Mintifi's stack: Payments / PSP (Mintifi EIPP (self-operated)); Lending (Mintifi Finserve Private Limited (in-house), Revolving purchase credit lines for distributors/retailers, Check-out financing for buying inventory, Short-term inventory loans and 4 others).
Mintifi is founded in 2017 and headquartered in Mumbai, India.
Mintifi has raised Over $1B (equity + debt combined) in total (latest round: Series E, 2024).
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