# Clear（前稱 ClearTax）表示已完成 7500 萬美元的 C 輪融資。

*fintech · news · 2021-10-24 · TechCrunch*

## Key points

- Stripe 透過支持 SaaS 金融科技公司 Clear，進行了其在印度的第二筆投資。
- Clear 在由 Kora Capital 領投的 C 輪融資中籌集了 7500 萬美元，累計融資總額達 1.4 億美元。
- Clear 的 SaaS 平台在 18 個月內成長五倍，現已處理超過印度 10% 的發票。
- Clear 計劃利用新融資擴展國際市場，繼進入中東後，目標鎖定歐洲。

Stripe has made its second investment in India, just days after disclosing the first. One of the world’s most valuable startups has backed Bangalore-based SaaS fintech firm Clear, the two said Sunday evening. The 10-year-old Indian startup, formerly known as ClearTax, said it has raised $75 million in its Series C funding. The round was led by Kora Capital. Stripe, as well as Alua Capital, Think Investments and several other existing investors participated in the round, which brings the startup’s all-time raise to over $140 million. Clear — which counts Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital India, Founders Fund, and Elevation Capital among its earliest investors — helps individuals and businesses file their tax returns. It also provides wealth management advice to individuals, and helps businesses with e-invoicing and credit. The startup says over 6 million individuals, and more than 1 million small and larger businesses and over 30,000 enterprises use its platform. In the past 18 months, said Archit Gupta, Clear founder and chief executive in an interview with TechCrunch, the startup’s SaaS platform has grown five times. The startup said it processes over 10%, up from 3% in 2016, of India’s business invoices with a GMV of $400 billion. Clear’s marquee offering, ClearTax, started at a time when e-filing was not as popular in India. But the startup found itself in a good spot thanks to government regulations in the following years. (The government made e-filing mandatory in the country five years ago, for instance.) But the number of people in India, home to 1.4 billion people, who pay taxes is still fairly low. Only about 60 million individuals pay taxes in India. That has been one of the reasons why Clear has expanded its offerings to serve businesses and also broadened to wealth management. “We are excited to partner with Clear as they innovate at scale in the Indian SaaS ecosystem, enabling enterprises and SMEs to automate their workflows around taxation, invoicing and several other adjacencies,” said Nitin Saigal, Kora’s founder and CIO, in a statement. Gupta said the startup will deploy the fresh funds to broaden its offerings and is also beginning to expand overseas. Clear, which is already serving businesses in the Middle East, plans to expand to cater to businesses in Europe soon, he said. “We welcome Kora, Stripe and our other incoming investors. Kora has strong experience in technology players in emerging markets and Stripe is a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet – we are excited to learn from both of them,” he said. “India is on a massive digitisation journey and we are fortunate to be in the perfect storm of electronic invoicing, GST, UPI, cheap mobile internet and rapid adoption of technology due to Covid-19. We are doubling down on our SaaS platform to help businesses with collateral free debt and payments. This funding also gives us fuel for our international expansion.”

**Companies:** Stripe, Kora Capital, Alua Capital, Think Investments, Clear
**Countries:** India

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