FamPay co-founder Sambhav Jain clarifies the details of their seed funding round coming out of Y Combinator.
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2026
Jain: Most of the next 500M internet users will be minors
“Whenever we are talking about the next half billion users on the internet, we often forget that majority of them are going to be minors, right? Every year millions of teens will get their first smartphones.”
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Jain: School students make better brand ambassadors than college students
“And what's unique with school kids is that like probably college students might not feel great about being a brand ambassador for a company, but while you're in school, because the exposure is so less, it feels very unique that you're working closely with the …”
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Sambhav Jain: Teenagers act as household CTOs influencing major family purchases
“Teenagers may not be the decision makers at home, but they are the decision influencers. So just. Look at any purchase that that is made in home, right? Be it a TV, a car, phone, refrigerator, or anything. Parents go to their kids and ask like which one to buy…”
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Sambhav Jain: Physical payment cards do not need printed card numbers
“So we're like, can we remove this? And because anyway, when I'm transacting online with the physical card, I don't need numbers. I just need my pin. I'm swiping the card and for shopping online, I just need the numbers. So we can push the numbers on the app th…”
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Jain: 40% of India's population is under 18 years old
“And if you look at India's population, 40% of India's population is below 18. 40%.”
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FamPay grew 100% month-on-month for 8 to 10 months post-launch
“So, so when we launched in August, 2020, after launching in his first numberless card we, for the first eight to 10 months, we were actually growing a hundred percent month on month.”