Fintech · New Delhi, India
Swadesh
Swadesh is building the world's first neobank for the Indian expat diaspora, with offices in the US, India, and Canada, backed by Khosla Ventures, 8VC, Section32, and Kunal Shah. Founder Prateek Swain is a Princeton CS alum who started HackIndia.
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- Location
- New Delhi, India
- Team size
- 1-10
- Total raised
- $2.3M
- Pre-seed · last round Jul '22
About Swadesh
Swadesh is building the world's first neobank for the Indian expat diaspora. The company has offices in the United States, India, and Canada. It is funded by Khosla Ventures, 8VC, Section32, and investors Kevin Lin, Nat Turner, and Kunal Shah. Founder Prateek Swain previously started HackIndia, India's largest hackathon, and MakeVenturesPrinceton, Princeton's first student-run incubator, and is a Princeton University Computer Science graduate, class of 2019. Swadesh's mission is to build a US bank for the Indian diaspora.
Funding
$2.3Mtotal raised
- Jul 2022 · Pre-seed$2.3M
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