FPL Technologies bags $10 million Series A funding from Sequoia India, Matrix Partners and Hummingbird

FPL Technologies has announced a $10 million Series A financing round with participation from Sequoia India, Matrix Partners India, Hummingbird Ventures, and a number of reputed angel investors. 

The company has also announced the launch of their mobile-first credit card, OneCard. In an industry-first, a user can easily apply for OneCard digitally via the OneScore app, thus evading any physical contact with card agents. The innovation aims to offer easy access to potential users in the wake of social distancing. A VISA Signature metal credit card, it is issued in partnership with a banking partner. 

A truly mobile-first credit card, OneCard is built by FPL on a full-stack proprietary technology platform in India. Backed by the principles of simplicity, transparency, and giving back control to the user, it aims to redefine the credit card experience for the digitally savvy young Indians. 

Cardmembers can control every aspect of their OneCard from a mobile app - whether enabling domestic/international transactions, locking their card, enabling online/offline transactions, paying their credit card bill, and much more. There are no annual or joining fees and forex markup rate of 1% is among the lowest in the market. 

OneCard comes along with a powerful Rewards Program, OneRewards, which awards 5X points on the top 2 spend categories each month. Points are credited and redeemed instantly in OneCard app, with no redemption fee. Further, with the issue of fractional points, no spend ever goes unrewarded. 

This latest investment by Sequoia India, Matrix Partners India and Hummingbird Ventures now brings FPL Technologies’ total funding since launch to approximately $15 million. The recent funding round will help the company rapidly scale up its engineering and product teams to develop and grow the issuance of OneCard to more customers.

Anurag Sinha, Cofounder & CEO says, “We are absolutely convinced about the potential of the Indian credit card market on the back of massive growth of card acceptance, consumer adoption towards digital payments and availability of a large base of risk-scored customers in bureaus. We believe that a world-class mobile-first consumer experience suited for Indian consumer preferences, would drive a large adoption of OneCard and we are committed to build and scale that in India.”

“OneCard changes the game for the consumer credit card experience. The FPL team led by Anurag, Vibhav and Rupesh have built a superior offering with the fastest onboarding, easiest reward redemption, and simplest bill payments. Their powerful, proprietary in-house tech-stack will define the future of digital consumer credit in India and this conviction has led to Sequoia India increasing its commitment in FPL.”, comments, Shailesh Lakhani, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital India LLP. 

“It has been exciting to see the progress of Anurag, Vibhav, Rupesh and the FPL team from the idea stage to the launch of OneScore and now OneCard. They are well on their way to building the best mobile first credit card experience both online and offline with deep technological and data driven innovation”, adds Avnish Bajaj, Founder & Managing Director, Matrix India.