[Funding alert] Cross-border payments platform SALT raises $500K in Pre-Seed round

Cross-border payments platform for businesses, SALT, on Monday, announced that it has raised $500,000 in a pre-seed round from various angel investors, as well as founders of Indian startups. 

These included Prashant Pansare (Founder, Backer Capital, Airmeet), Amit Goel (ex-MEDICI), Vishrut Bubna (Verak, previously, BimaPe), Supermorpheus, and from Founders of various startups, including IIMJOBS, Cashoverflow, Orange Health, Cloudnine Hospitals, Bizongo, Loconav, Yellow Hospitality, Praxify, Letstransport, and NetNet.

The current round will help Salt in building the engineering team, product development, as well as building new features as per the product roadmap.

Prashant Pansare, Founder, Backer Capital said,

"Ankit and Udita are building Salt for reducing complexities in the cross-border transactions in India. The complexities and inefficiencies in global transactions for exporters need a robust and easy-to-use solution. This simplification would enable these businesses to scale globally."

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The Bengaluru-based startup, founded in 2020 by Ankit Parasher and Udita Pal, Salt, aims to empower the Indian SMBs and MSMEs by simplifying their banking operations and have more efficient global transactions.

Ankit Parasher, Co-founder and CEO of SALT said,

"We are at a cusp of growth in the Indian Impex industry, with the Govt pushing for a higher share in world trade to become an export hub. We require robust banking and compliance products for this industry to support the scale of transactions in a rapidly changing regulatory environment coupled with higher customer expectations.”

Salt is a digital-only experience for SMEs for cross-border payments that helps in providing banking, documentation management, and workflow automation solutions to small-size exporters and importers who are actively dealing with international transactions.

"With Salt, we aim to build a bridge between banking and small businesses for the import/export industry in India by providing a one-stop solution for all their banking needs to support their interactional transactions which currently stands worth $300 billion on a pan-India basis," he added.

Salt went live with the beta version of its inward remittance product, which already has over 100 SMEs and businesses using it. The product will now be available to a more extensive set of exporters who want to receive payments from over 50 countries to India at the cheapest rates in over six currencies.