India-based online loan provider Aye Finance has completed a $33.3m series D round backed by CapitalG, the growth-stage investment arm of internet and technology conglomerate Alphabet, Entrackr has reported.
Hedge fund manager Falcon Edge led the round with a $22m investment while CapitalG contributed $4.7m towards the funding. It also featured alternative investment firm LGT Capital Partners and MAJ, which invested $4.2m and $2.2m respectively, according to a regulatory filing.
Karvy Capital, the asset management arm of financial services firm Karvy Group, supplied an additional $2.2m in debt financing for the company.
Founded in 2014, Aye Finance has created an online platform that provides working capital and business development loans to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, covering trading, manufacturing, services, and livestock and farming.
The company has now raised approximately $137m in debt and equity, having received $21.5m in a June 2018 series C round led by CapitalG that included SAIF Partners and LGT Venture Philanthropy.
The latter two had joined Accion in Aye Finance’s $10.3m series B round in 2016. Accion and SAIF also took part in a $3m round in December 2015, with both having invested an undisclosed amount the company 10 months earlier.