Akash Sinha
Co-founder & CEO, Cashfree Payments. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Akash Sinha is the co-founder and CEO of Cashfree Payments, an Indian payments and disbursals platform launched in 2015. He previously worked as a software engineer at Amazon and BankBazaar after graduating from IIIT Hyderabad.
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Sinha: Cashfree Captures Up to 50% of New Indian SME Signups
“Today we get more than 45 to 50% of new SME signups, which are happening in there right on cash-free, right? We get more than 30,000 leads on cash-free platform every month, which is a very sizable number. We have clearly won the SME market, right?”
Sinha: Cashfree Holds Up to 60% Share in Payouts and Verification
“I think there are a lot of products which we have pioneered in the industry, likes of PRs, connected banking, verification, and a lot of these markets, we own more than 55, 60% of market share, right?”
Cashfree was India's first payments company to launch bulk payouts
“We were the first payments company in India to launch payouts. No one had payouts back then.”
Sinha: Existing Payment Companies Will Dominate, Blocking New Entrants Within Five Years
“Same is going to happen with payments also in the next five years, right? So whatever payment companies are there today in five years, they'll become more dominant and it's very difficult to start a payments company.”
Sinha: UPI Adoption Triggered a Big Rise in Phishing and Scams
“Risk and fraud is another big area that we see emerging due to the launch of UPI and making digital payments more and more convenient. We also saw a big rise in terms of all the incidents around, you know, scamming people or people losing money because of all …”
Sinha: Indian Payments Will Consolidate to 10 Relevant Firms
“Even in payment, there will be 10 companies which are relevant, each getting to specific pockets. But in certain areas, there will be leader, right? Say in SME segment, there will be two or three players, which are large enough. In e-commerce as the industry, …”
Akash Sinha: Legacy Payment Gateways Became Distribution-Heavy Rather Than Product-Driven
“So before us, a lot of these businesses were single product business. They just had one payment gateway. They're just hiding a lot of bells and whistles around it and trying to fit into all the use cases, right? Again, it becomes difficult. And beyond that tim…”
Sinha: Distribution and Marketing Eventually Become Commodities in Fintech
“Fintech, if you get the product right, distribution is something you can achieve it. And in our industry, distribution becomes a commodity beyond the point. Marketing becomes a commodity beyond the point. Then the only unique thing you have is the product and …”
Sinha: B2B purchasing is rational, making distribution futile for low-value products
“See B to B as an industry is a very rational decision making industry, right? People are not making choices basis of impulse, right? So if you are creative on the product, then people are going to buy it because it adds very clear value to you. If a product is…”
Sinha: Cashfree will hit $100 million in revenue this financial year
“I think by end of this financial year, we'll be hitting a hundred million dollars of revenue.”
Sinha: Cashfree aims to serve 10% of India's total transactions by 2030
“2030, I think we should be serving 10% total transactions in India.”
Sinha: Cashfree is targeting $1 billion in revenue by 2027
“If you look at revenue growth, you're looking to head, like, one billion dollars of revenue by 2027. So that is the plan I think we have in our site.”
Sinha: Cashfree Processes Over 1.4B Transactions and $50B Annually
“And today we are very proud to say we have partnered with most of this larger internet companies in India, and we process more than 1.4 billion transactions in a year and move, you know, upwards of fifty billion dollars, you know, transactions, you know, every…”
Akash Sinha: India will have multiple segment-specific digital payment winners
“And in countries like India, we will not have a kind of, you know, like universal payments winner in the space, right? You will have say winners into specific space and overall in the country will have multiple winners, right?”
Akash Sinha: Swiggy, Zepto, Cred, and IRCTC are Cashfree customers
“Actually, Swiggy is already a customer. Exepto is a customer. Dunzo is a customer. So there's a lot of customers we have from Hyperloop industry. ICTC is one of the big names that work with us. We have someone like, you know, as I mentioned, Cred is one of the…”
Sinha: Cashfree Has Reached 250 Million Unique Customers in India
“Historically, I mean, we have served more than 25 crore unique customers in India so far, right, and they have interacted with cash-free one way or the other, which is, again, almost, you know, 60, 65% of total digitally enabled consumers in India today.”
Akash Sinha: India has around 440M to 450M UPI users
“If you look at UPI users, that number will be around 44, 45 CR.”
Sinha: Entrepreneurs Must Target Transitioning Markets to Avoid Saturated Selling
“Go after large market, go after growing market and go after market, which is also transitioning, right? Because during a transition period, people look for new areas to optimize their business models. Right. And that is the time they can adopt new things or th…”
Sinha: Cashfree Files the Highest Number of STRs in the Industry
“The number of, you know, transactions we can, the number of STRC file is highest in the industry.”
Sinha: Digital payments in India will reach 25% of GDP
“I think today digital payments is like, what, 10, 12% of GDP. It will be, say, 25% GDP, like in private.”
Cashfree Launched Cash Advances for D2C Founders in 2022
“We build this product cash advances like six to eight months back, where if you are a D to C entrepreneur, founder, if you need some short term loan, right, that is something cash we can enable for you.”
Sinha: 45% of Cashfree SME Signups Originate Outside Tier 1 Cities
“We see almost 40, 40 weapon signups coming from tier two, tier three cities in India, right?”
Cashfree CEO: We Built Stacked Modular Solutions for Swiggy and MPL
“And which we have done in our journey with likes of Swiggy or MPL, right? We have done such a stacking and giving them the solution, which exactly they are looking for.”
Sinha: Cashfree prioritized content marketing and video tutorials over ad spend
“For the mass market cash, we never believed in spending a lot on the ads, right? We spent a lot of time on content marketing. We invested a lot of time on creating videos to help other users integrate cash-free faster. So we have done a lot of things which are…”
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