{"id":1016469,"date":"2026-06-23T11:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016469"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:07:28","slug":"kunal-shahs-whatsapp-call-a-900-mn-deal-as-founder-moves-to-meta-messaging-giant-whats-up-at-cred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/23\/kunal-shahs-whatsapp-call-a-900-mn-deal-as-founder-moves-to-meta-messaging-giant-whats-up-at-cred\/","title":{"rendered":"Kunal Shah&#8217;s WhatsApp call, a $900-mn deal: As founder moves to Meta messaging giant, what&#8217;s up at Cred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian fintech company Cred will raise \u20b98,550 crore (approximately $900 million) from Meta, the company announced on Monday, as Cred founder Kunal Shah steps down as CEO to take over as the global head of Meta\u2019s WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>With fresh capital, a new interim chief, and an explicit signal towards listing on the stock market, Cred is on a path to show whether or not it is built to outlast its founder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian fintech company Cred will raise \u20b98,550 crore (approximately $900 million) from Meta, the company announced on Monday, as Cred founder Kunal Shah steps down as CEO to take over as the global head of Meta\u2019s WhatsApp. With fresh capital, a new interim chief, and an explicit signal towards listing on the stock market, Cred is on a path to show whether or not it is built to outlast its founder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016469","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016470,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016469\/revisions\/1016470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}