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IPV, Vijay Shekhar Sharma lead angel round in homegrown OTT startup Stage

The company says it's the only artist-based OTT platform in the country with content in art forms such as comedy, poetry, folk, and storytelling

Paytm NUE licence consortium most diverse: Vijay Shekhar Sharma

The NUE, whose idea was floated by RBI in August last year, is an alternative to the NPCI, which is the sole entity that manages retail payments right now

Paytm CEO doubles commitment, aims Rs 200-cr investment fund by Dec

Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma on Tuesday said he has doubled his commitment for an investment fund being set up by alternative asset manager Root Ventures. Root Ventures expects to close the fund in December with a corpus of Rs 200 crore, according to its founder Japan Vyas. It plans to invest in "direct-to-consumer" brands that provide natural and organic categories, plant based protein, and healthy beverages like tea monk. "I am happy to increase my investment with Vyas and the team at Roots Ventures who have an investing track record of picking winners across business cycles over more than a decade," Sharma told PTI. Sharma added that right from his days when he invested in Paytm in 2010 or later when he bet on firms like RBL Bank, NSE, Indusind Bank, Veeba and Hindustan Foods, Vyas has been able to identify emerging trends and invest into them ahead of others. "Their low-profile investing style has held them in good stead even in their current fund which has weathe

Paytm targets a million apps on its mini app store to take on Google

Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma called Google "judge, jury and executioner" after his app was temporarily removed from the Android app store last month

'Would be massive': Paytm Money looks to tap India's stock trading mania

Paytm Money hopes to stand in competitive stock broking industry with features that could allow users to automate the entry, exit and monitoring of investments.

Paytm reports Rs 3,629 cr revenue for FY20; eyes profitability by 2022

The Noida-based firm also claimed it has narrowed losses 40 per cent year-on-year on account of optimisation of expenses which will help it become profitable by 2022

Paytm, CEO Sharma to acquire general insurer Raheja QBE for Rs 568 crore

Raheja QBE will be acquired through QorQl Pvt. Ltd, a technology company in which Vijay Shekhar Sharma has majority shareholding.

Prism Johnson up 10% as board approves divestment of entire stake in RQBE

The company informed that the board has approved divestment of stake to "QORQL Private Limited, a technology company with a majority shareholding of Vijay Shekhar Sharma.

Paytm to gradually shift Delhi-NCR ops to new Noida campus by end of 2020

Noida has been the headquarters of Paytm for over two decades now and the company is on-track to shift to the new premises by December this year

Paytm is clearly ahead of competition, says CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Paytm is bigger than everybody else combined in the market, added the Paytm CEO

Govt should reimburse firms for acquiring merchants: Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Paytm launches All in One QR code for Paytm wallet, Rupay cards and all UPI based transactions

Story of India's economy in the past decade: After a high, a sharp slide

Here are the five people who best represent the story of the Indian economy in the 2010s

Paytm in talks to raise another $1 bn, former UK PM may also invest: Report

Sources close to the development said the discussions are on and might take a few weeks to get finalised

Paytm raises a billion dollars at a valuation of $16 bn, plans expansion

Ant Financial and SoftBank back it with full force; money will go for expansion in small cities, towns

WeWork IPO debacle a lesson, says Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma

In conversation with Karan Choudhury, Sharma talks about how the WeWork IPO debacle shows that money is finite and results are extremely important

Paytm founder Vijay Sharma says winning in India prepared him for the world

Sharma said the digital payments war is a huge opportunity and that India could produce the payment player which will go on to dominate the world

How Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma is an exception to the rule

The fastidious Sage of Omaha apparently diluted his rigorous due diligence procedures to invest in the business of one of India's most influential e-commerce entrepreneurs

Facebook most evil firm in world, says Paytm chief Vijay Shekhar Sharma

This is not the first time Facebook and Sharma have been at loggerheads

'Holy cow'

Vijay Shekhar Sharma the Paytm founder tweeted his amazement

Paytm to have Rs 1-lakh cr GMV by 2018: Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Interview with CEO, Paytm