India-based point-of-sale (POS) technology provider Pine Labs has received $125m from online payment technology producer PayPal and Singaporean government-owned investment firm Temasek, the Economic Times reported today.
Pine Labs provides products such as a portable POS system, a cloud-based payment platform and software tools covering retail analytics or loyalty schemes for more than 75,000 retailers in India, many of which are local businesses. It also offers short-term loans to customers.
In addition to investing in Pine Labs, PayPal will help the company beef up its technology while Temasek will assist in a planned expansion into Southeast Asia.
Lokvir Kapoor, founder and chairman of Pine Labs, said: “We are teaming up with Temasek and PayPal at a time when the Indian payments market is at an inflexion point.
“We are a leader in the offline payments space, a position that is critical in enabling the ecosystem of online payment products. The investments will help us move a step closer to our vision for building a world-class merchant-centric payments ecosystem.”
The latest funding came after Pine Labs raised $82m in a March 2018 round led by growth market-focused investment firm Actis that included growth equity firm Altimeter Capital. It valued Pine Labs at $800m to $900m, sources close to the development told Times of India.
The company’s largest shareholder is VC firm Sequoia Capital, which acquired a majority stake in 2009, and which had invested a total of about $20m as of the start of 2015 according to YourStory.