mPokket raises $60m funding in debt capital from BPEA Credit

By Gloria Mathias

mPokket, one of India’s digital lending platforms offering credit, insurance, and career acceleration products to the underserved youth of India, including young working professionals and self-employed individuals, has raised upto $60 million (INR 500 crore) including a green shoe option in debt capital from the private credit platform of BPEA Credit.

The funds will be used to meet the growing credit demand from mPokket’s 24 million registered customer base while accelerating product development in the career accelerator and insurance verticals, which have seen a demand surge from its young customer base.

mPokket, founded in 2016 by Gaurav Jalan, has delivered healthy profit margins for seven consecutive years and in April 2023, received a BBB Stable Rating from CRISIL.

“The partnership with BPEA Credit strengthens our mission of building the consumer credit economy in India with high-affinity financial security and income expansion offerings for our growing young customer base,” shared Gaurav Jalan, mPokket’s Founder and CEO

Kanchan Jain, Head BPEA Credit Group, said, “We are pleased to partner with mPokket, a leading and profitable digital lending platform offering financing products to young working professionals and self-employed individuals. Our financing solution helps mPokket serve the growing needs of underserved youth and is in line with our philosophy of providing bespoke growth capital to established industry leaders with good governance and a risk mitigation framework.

mPokket has disbursed loans with $1.7 billion in value to date with minimal default rates and healthy profit margins powered by its proprietary underwriting algorithm working over a large dataset of users representing millions of proprietary data points.

BPEA Credit is a private credit manager in Asia, that provides growth capital to established mid-market companies. Over the past 11 years, it has raised 3 funds and invested $1bn+ across 70 portfolio companies in multiple sectors. BPEA Credit has built an investment platform with a 30-member team with offices in Singapore, Delhi and Mumbai.