Atlanta, GA-based Ebix Inc., a maker of software for the insurance and financial services industry, acquired a majority stake in Indian payments services firm ItzCash for approximately $124 million. ItzCash’s earlier investors, Matrix Partners, Intel Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, exited the company for returns between 3X – 5X, leaving Essel Group with a 20% stake.
Founded in 2006, ItzCash, started with digital payments, and expanded into remittances, financial services, corporate solutions, point of sale (PoS) terminals and payment gateway. The company processes 600,000 transactions per day. In 2016-17, it processed payments worth $1.6 billion through its network, reports the Livemint.
“With the youngest tech-savvy society, the largest middle class, a 1.3 billion population, a country committed to going digital and a growth rate of 7% plus, India is an emerging economic superpower today. We are big believers in the power of exchanges and thus have been keen to take an early position in India in terms of powering financial and insurance exchanges,” said Robin Raina, chairman and chief executive of Ebix.
