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RedCarpetUp (YC S15) — Credit cards for indians that banks cannot see

RedCarpet issues credit cards to those that banks cannot see. Currently we are one of the largest issuers of credit lines to the new-to-credit customer in India.

RedCarpetUp is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2015 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Credit cards for Indians that banks cannot see. The founder listed is Kartik Venkataraman (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, April 27, 2015).

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RedCarpetUp

New accelerator entry · 2015-04-27 · the record

Summer 2015
batch
100
people
Growth
stage
India
region
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What the record says

BatchSummer 2015
Announced2015-04-27
StageGrowth
StatusActive
Team size100
IndustryFintech
Sub-industryFintech -> Consumer Finance
SectorsFintech, India
RegionsIndia, South Asia, Remote, Fully Remote
BasedGurugram, HR, India; Remote
HiringNo
Sitehttp://redcarpetup.com

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RedCarpet issues credit cards to those that banks cannot see. Currently we are one of the largest issuers of credit lines to the new-to-credit customer in India. In a population base of 800 million people with bank accounts, there are less than 40 million credit cards. By building a fullstack SDK for card issuance, underwriting as well as holding capital & collection ops, we are looking to build the Capital One of India.

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