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PhonePe is an Indian digital payments and financial services company, headquartered in Bengaluru. It was founded in December 2015, by Sameer Nigam, Rahul Chari and Burzin Engineer. The PhonePe app, based on the Unified Payments Interface, went live in August 2016.

Key facts

Website.name
PhonePe
Website.logo
PhonePe Logo.svg
Website.logo_size
200px
Website.type
Digital payments & Financial services
Website.company_type
Private
Website.language
Multilingual (11)
Website.area_served
India
Website.industry
Fintech, Financial services, Payment gateway
Website.revenue
(2025)
Website.parent
Walmart
Website.registration
Required
Website.commercial
Yes
Website.users
600 million
Website.current_status
Active
Website.native_clients
AndroidiOS
Website.location
Salarpuria Softzone, Bengaluru, Karnataka
Website.country
India

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PhonePe is an Indian digital payments and financial services company, headquartered in Bengaluru. It was founded in December 2015, by Sameer Nigam, Rahul Chari and Burzin Engineer. The PhonePe app, based on the Unified Payments Interface, went live in August 2016.

The PhonePe app is accessible in 11 Indian languages. It enables users to perform various financial transactions such as sending and receiving money, recharging mobile and DTH, making utility payments, conducting in-store payments.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “PhonePe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.