“Can a digital ledger for India's neighborhood shopkeepers become the underwriting engine for unorganized-retail credit?”
Founded 2017 as a digital bahi khata (ledger) app to digitize informal credit-tracking for India's neighborhood shopkeepers. After capturing millions of merchants and ~$50B of annual recorded informal-BNPL transactions, the company moved up the stack into embedded finance — facilitating UPI payments through Razorpay/Cashfree and originating digital loans through NBFC partners under RBI's digital lending guidelines. The thesis is to convert ledger data into the credit-underwriting fabric for India's unorganized retail.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 2 layers in OkCredit's stack: Payments / PSP (Razorpay and Cashfree); Lending (OkCredit business loans (NBFC-funded merchant loans)).
OkCredit was founded by Harsh Pokharna and is founded in 2017, headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
OkCredit has raised $83M+ in total (latest round: Secondary - Private).
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