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Bengaluru, Karnataka

4.5/ 5

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Setu, legally incorporated as BrokenTusk Technologies Private Limited, is a prominent Indian financial technology infrastructure company headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Founded in 2018 by Sahil Kini and Nikhil Kumar, the company was established with the vision of accelerating economic growth and financial inclusion by making formal financial rails easily accessible to all businesses. Designed as a developer-friendly API infrastructure platform, Setu functions similarly to what Stripe is to global payments, providing modular, plug-and-play application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow fintechs, lending apps, and traditional consumer platforms to easily embed financial services into their products. The company's core product offerings span critical infrastructure segments of India's digital financial architecture. This includes robust integrations for the Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS), Account Aggregator (AA) networks, Unified Payments Interface (UPI) DeepLinks, digital onboarding frameworks like Know Your Customer (KYC), eSign, and electronic National Automated Clearing House (eNACH) orchestration. Through these modular APIs and Software Development Kits (SDKs), Setu abstracts the immense structural and regulatory complexity of legacy banking networks, enabling companies to quickly deploy services like instant credit alerts, real-time transaction receipts, compliance checks, and automated identity or data verifications (such as PAN, GSTIN, and corporate filings). Setu's high-capacity, AWS-hosted architecture is trusted by over 1,000 organizations, including major banks, insurance companies, non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), and digital startups. Operating at significant production scale, the platform facilitates over 10 million monthly BBPS utility transactions—amounting to a volume of more than INR 4,000 crore (USD 480 million)—and processes 5 million daily Account Aggregator requests. A defining milestone occurred on June 23, 2022, when Setu was acquired by leading merchant commerce platform Pine Labs in a strategic cash-and-equity transaction valued between $70 million and $75 million. Post-acquisition, Setu has maintained its distinct brand identity, product roadmap, and operational autonomy under the leadership of CEO Anand Raisinghani. The company’s strategic position shifted further following Pine Labs' initial public offering (IPO) on the NSE and BSE on November 14, 2025, which established a closing market capitalization of approximately $3.3 billion. Backed by its parent company’s expansive institutional network and a dedicated workforce of around 100 to 150 employees, Setu continues to advance the boundaries of open banking and embedded finance, positioning itself to incorporate AI-driven insights and agentic bill-payment solutions for India's growing digital economy.