{"id":1001898,"date":"2026-04-09T08:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001898"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:17:01","slug":"digital-lender-kreditbee-in-unicorn-club-with-280-million-at-1-5-billion-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/09\/digital-lender-kreditbee-in-unicorn-club-with-280-million-at-1-5-billion-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital lender Kreditbee in unicorn club with $280 million at $1.5 billion valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kreditbee has closed a $280 million funding round which has catapulted the Bengaluru-based digital lending startup into the unicorn club with a post-money valuation of $1.5 billion. <\/p>\n<p>The round is a mix of $220 million in primary capital to be infused into the firm and $60 million in secondary capital, where the cash is taken by existing investors in lieu of the shares they have sold. <\/p>\n<p>ET had reported on February 2 that this round was in the works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kreditbee has closed a $280 million funding round which has catapulted the Bengaluru-based digital lending startup into the unicorn club with a post-money valuation of $1.5 billion. The round is a mix of $220 million in primary capital to be infused into the firm and $60 million in secondary capital, where the cash is taken by existing investors in lieu of the shares they have sold. ET had reported on February 2 that this round was in the works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}