{"id":1044798,"date":"2026-10-22T10:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T05:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044798"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T05:23:19","slug":"premji-invest-norwest-and-lok-capital-back-vegafins-majority-stake-in-bizloan-with-up-to-%e2%82%b91000-crore-in-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/22\/premji-invest-norwest-and-lok-capital-back-vegafins-majority-stake-in-bizloan-with-up-to-%e2%82%b91000-crore-in-commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Premji Invest, Norwest and Lok Capital back Vegafin\u2019s majority stake in Bizloan with up to \u20b91,000 crore in commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Premji Invest, Norwest, and Lok Capital will invest up to \u20b91,000 crore in Vegafin, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven platform focused on micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) lending. The firm was founded and promoted by ICICI Bank veteran Bijith Bhaskar.<\/p>\n<p>A portion of the funds has been used to acquire a majority stake in Bizloan, a Gurugram-based non-banking financial company (NBFC) specializing in secured MSME loans, according to a joint statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premji Invest, Norwest, and Lok Capital will invest up to \u20b91,000 crore in Vegafin, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven platform focused on micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) lending. The firm was founded and promoted by ICICI Bank veteran Bijith Bhaskar. A portion of the funds has been used to acquire a majority stake in Bizloan, a Gurugram-based non-banking financial company (NBFC) specializing in secured MSME loans, according to a joint statement.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044798","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=1044798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044799,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044798\/revisions\/1044799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}