Results · Financial Services
Cashfree Payments nears Rs 1,000 crore revenue
By Startup Enthusiast ·
- Date
- Company
- Cashfree Payments
- What it does
- Payment gateway and fintech platform
- Kind
- Results
- Founded
- 2015
- Sector
- Financial Services
What they do
Cashfree Payments is a payment gateway and fintech platform for businesses
What happened
It reported FY26 revenue near Rs 1,000 crore and achieved EBITDA profitability in March 2026
Why it matters
Cross-border business grew eightfold in GTV and tenfold in net revenue year-over-year
The details
- Cashfree Payments reported FY26 revenue near Rs 1,000 crore.
- The company achieved EBITDA profitability in March 2026.
- Its GTV (gross transaction value) grew 78% year-over-year in the March quarter.
- The active merchant base grew 50% year-over-year in FY26 across enterprise and SMB segments.
- SMB segment GTV more than doubled in FY26.
- Cross-border GTV saw an eightfold increase from March 2025 to March 2026.
- Cross-border net revenue grew tenfold from March 2025 to March 2026.
The bigger picture
- The company targets full-year EBITDA profitability in FY27.
- Cross-border is expected to contribute ~25% of total revenue in coming years.
- FY27 priorities include expanding cross-border and investing in identity verification and AI-driven payments.
- Cashfree plans to raise fresh funding for payment innovation and international expansion.
About the business
- Cashfree Payments provides a payment gateway, subscriptions, payment links, payment forms, and instant settlements.
- It offers an international payment gateway, fraud prevention (RiskShield), identity verification (SecureID), and mule account detection (Mule Sentinel).
- It also provides agentic payments (Cashfree Here), agentic operations (Cashfree Relay), payouts, and Cashgram.
- Industry solutions include E-Commerce & D2C, BFSI, Education & EdTech, SMB & Startups, and Enterprise.
- Checkout360 enables one-click checkout for Shopify D2C brands, lifts conversion, flips COD to prepaid, and flags RTO risk.
- It accepts payments from 170+ markets in 140+ currencies, settled in INR.
- Foreign businesses can collect from Indian customers in UPI, RuPay, cards with 80%+ success rates, settle overseas in 100+ currencies at 0% FX, no Indian entity needed.
What happens next
- Target full-year EBITDA profitability in FY27.
- Expand cross-border operations.
- Invest in identity verification and AI-driven payments infrastructure.
- Raise fresh funding for payment innovation, international expansion, and cross-border growth.
Investors
- State Bank of India (existing)
- KRAFTON (existing)
- Y Combinator (existing)
- Apis Partners (existing)
Founders
- Akash Sinha, co-founder and CEO
- Reeju Datta, co-founder
About Cashfree Payments
- Product
- Digital payment solutions including payment gateway, cross-border payments, payout solutions, and banking APIs.
- Customers
- Businesses and merchants, including enterprise and SMB customers.
- How it makes money
- Charges fees on payment processing and related financial infrastructure services.
- What sets it apart
- Offers a broad payments stack plus cross-border capabilities across many countries.
- Operations
- Processes payments at scale for merchants across India and international markets.
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