{"id":1001905,"date":"2026-04-09T08:08:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001905"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:07:55","slug":"slice-eyes-50-100-million-funding-at-lower-valuation-sharpens-digital-bank-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/09\/slice-eyes-50-100-million-funding-at-lower-valuation-sharpens-digital-bank-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Slice eyes $50-100 million funding at lower valuation, sharpens digital bank pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slice Small Finance Bank is in discussions with investors to raise $50\u2013100 million in fresh funding at a lower valuation than its previous round as the company looks to position itself as a digital bank like Brazil\u2019s Nubank, multiple people familiar with the negotiations said. <\/p>\n<p>The round, if completed, is likely to come at a valuation under $1 billion, these people said. Slice\u2019s last known valuation was around $1.3 billion. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are in the market to raise, but the valuation will likely take a hit,\u201d a person in the know said. \u201cThe company has held talks with venture capital funds but nothing has fructified yet. The West Asia war and the focus on AI has kept some of the big global funds away.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slice Small Finance Bank is in discussions with investors to raise $50\u2013100 million in fresh funding at a lower valuation than its previous round as the company looks to position itself as a digital bank like Brazil\u2019s Nubank, multiple people familiar with the negotiations said. The round, if completed, is likely to come at a valuation under $1 billion, these people said. Slice\u2019s last known valuation was around $1.3 billion. \u201cThey are in the market to raise, but the valuation will likely take a hit,\u201d a person in the know said. \u201cThe company has held talks with venture capital funds [&hellip;]<\/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-1001905","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\/1001905","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=1001905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}