Vastu Housing Finance Raises $200 Million Led By Norwest, IIFL
Vastu Housing Finance has raised $200 million (around ₹1,460 crores) in a financing round from a consortium led by Norwest Venture Partners, Creation Investments, and IIFL Asset Management.
As per the company, the newly raised funds will help the company expand operations in existing locations, explore new markets and invest in the next-generation technology platform to enhance customer experience, according to the company.
Vastu Housing Finance also plans to hire 1,000 additional team members across functions over the next 12 months.
Vastu Housing Finance
Started in 2015 by Sandeep Menon and Sujay Patil, Vastu Housing Finance is a digitally-enabled retail affordable housing finance company working to enable millions of Indians to fulfil their dreams of owning a bigger, better and new home.
With assets under management of around $400 million, Vastu Housing has a presence in 13 states across India and has over 1,200+ employees.
Speaking on the development, Sandeep Menon, Co-founder, MD & CEO of Vastu Housing Finance, said,
“With this investment, Vastu will further consolidate operations in 13 states its currently present and build products to provide easy, faster and affordable credit for 900 million population residing in these states.”
The housing financing company uses data science and analytics to deliver world-class and affordable products and franchises for its customers. Their award-winning proprietary technology platform PULSE has been the game-changer in helping the customers to estimate and demonstrate their undocumented income to avail credit solutions.
Majority-owned by funds managed by Multiples Alternate Asset Management, Vastu Housing was upgraded to [ICRA] A+ and assigned the highest rating on a short-term scale of [ICRA] A1+ by ICRA Ltd, before this financing round. The company also set up a non-banking finance company (NBFC) called Vastu Finserve, venturing into the vehicle and MSME finance.
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