<ul><li>Venture debt firm <keyword id="9353689" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="stride-ventures" source="Orion">Stride Ventures</keyword> sanctioned over ₹1600 crore to over 70 companies across various sectors. </li><li>Strides has diverse investments across sectors such as consumer, fintech, agritech, B2B commerce, healthtech and more. </li><li>Venture debt disbursed in <keyword id="3658" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="india" source="Orion">India</keyword> last year stood at $538 million. </li></ul> Venture debt firm Stride Ventures today closed its Stride Ventures India Fund II after raising $200 million. The fund’s portfolio includes startups like CredAvenue (<keyword id="14257101" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="yubi" source="Orion">Yubi</keyword>), <keyword id="3030142" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="myglamm" source="Orion">MyGlamm</keyword>, <keyword id="12437554" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="zepto" source="Orion">Zepto</keyword>, BluSmart and more. Stride said that the new fund saw participation from leading banks, marquee family offices, corporate treasuries, sovereign funds, PE funds, insurance firms and HNIs. "The growing investor trust in the Indian start-up ecosystem provided us with a great opportunity to develop a strong pipeline of deployments that we have utilized across various sectors. Stride Ventures goal is to continue being a preferred lender while developing innovative alternate financing solutions for founders,” said <keyword id="13803875" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="ishpreet-singh-gandhi" source="Orion">Ishpreet Singh Gandhi</keyword>, founder and managing partner at Stride Ventures. The fund saw its first close back in August 2021. Strides has diverse investments across sectors such as consumer, fin-tech, agri-tech, B2B commerce, health-tech, B2B SaaS, mobility &amp; energy solutions (EV). It has sanctioned over ₹1600 crore to over 70 companies across these verticals. “The current economic environment has made growing businesses more amenable to debt transactions than ever before, giving India's venture lending industry a chance to grow and evolve,” added <keyword id="1946603" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="apoorva-sharma" source="Orion">Apoorva Sharma</keyword>, partner at Stride Ventures. According to an India Venture Debt <a href="https://s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/www.strideventures.in/Stride+Ventures+India+Debt+Report+2022.pdf">Report</a> 2022, the firm released in May, venture debt disbursals stood at $538 million last year. The fund facilitated joint-lending structures with leading banks over three years. It claims to have built innovative alternate financing solutions within venture debt for founders to allocate capital efficiently. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/akasa-air-has-enough-capital-to-induct-72-aircraft-thanks-to-rakesh-jhunjhunwalas-visionary-role-says-ceo/articleshow/93616737.cms">Akasa Air has enough capital to induct 72 aircraft thanks to Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s visionary role, says CEO</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/workplace-recognition-and-not-salary-is-top-criteria-for-job-seekers-in-india-report/articleshow/93615940.cms">Workplace recognition, and not salary, is top criteria for job seekers in India: report</a>

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<ul><li><keyword id="8188441" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="u-gro" source="Orion">U GRO</keyword> Capital is looking to disburse loans worth ₹2,000 crore by March 2023 with their new alliance with <keyword id="14257101" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="yubi" source="Orion">Yubi</keyword>.</li><li>Separately, the company has an off-book asset under management (AUM) of ₹3,600 crore that they plan to double in the same time frame.</li><li>The lender believes that the alliance would make their partnership with banks much simpler.</li></ul>Lending company U GRO Capital on Wednesday announced a strategic alliance with debt marketplace Yubi (formerly known as CredAvenue) in an attempt to give out small business loans worth ₹2,000 crore to MSMEs by the end of this fiscal year. Separately, the company has an off-book asset under management (AUM) of ₹3,600 crore that they plan to double in the same time frame. The strategic alliance comes with two partnership deals to achieve this target set for the deal. First, between the companies’ co-lending platforms Yubi-Co.Lend and GRO-Xstream. Second, between Yubi's supply chain financing vertical Yubi Flow and U GRO’s offer for end retailers GRO-Line. Shachindra Nath, vice chairperson and managing director of U GRO Capital, in a conversation with Business Insider India noted that Yubi is building a market infrastructure, where they are integrating multiple banks and lenders together to make the co-lending process smoother. He noted that this integration would allow lenders like U GRO to directly transfer all major data of the customer to the co-lending banks, digitizing the entire process. This partnership would actually allow the lending company to enhance their existing co-lending partnership with banks, he added. “Today if I am doing ₹50 crore co-lending with a particular bank. Increasing from ₹50 crore to ₹100 crore is very difficult because banks have to put more people in and we have to put more people in between… If your bank is taking two hours or three hours to process a particular loan case, it will [now] only take five minutes,” Nath added. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="The Yubi partnership can help U GRO enhance its co-lending partnerships" comment="subhead" text="The Yubi partnership can help U GRO enhance its co-lending partnerships">The Yubi partnership can help U GRO enhance its co-lending partnerships</cmsannotation> Notably, a co-lending arrangement usually involves two entities — a non-banking finance company (NBFC) and a bank. The NBFC is the front for underwriting a loan, but a majority of that loan is actually facilitated by large financial institutions like a traditional bank. In this case, U GRO being an NBFC, onboards small business owners as borrowers based on several metrics. The company itself only finances 20% of the loan amount, while the rest is financed by traditional banks like State Bank of India and Yes Bank. Any profit, interest or loss is incurred by these two entities in the 20:80 ratio. “It is only 20% of the loan on my (U GRO’s) book. The balance is gone to SBI or any other partner bank, but U GRO would service that loan for the next five-six years. Customer is unimpacted,” Nath explained, emphasizing that this model is globally known as Lending-as-a-Service (LaaS). Nath noted that they are underwriting loans through their tech platform that majorly runs on data points with less human intervention. The banks, on the other hand, access the same loan manually which requires a lot of manpower and time. Therefore, the integration with a tech platform like Yubi would enable their banks to access these loans much faster with the same capacity. “We, at Yubi, are working towards accelerating financial inclusion in the country through a technology-driven credit infrastructure that powers discovery, execution and fulfillment. We are elated to partner with U GRO Capital with a shared vision to bridge the <keyword id="6358354" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="msme" source="Orion">MSME</keyword> credit gap in India by providing credit access to the unserved and underserved sectors in the country,” Gaurav Kumar, founder and CEO of Yubi, said in a statement. 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