RevFin Services Looks To Raise Around $40 Mn Via Securities This Fiscal

Start-up electric vehicles-focussed financing firm RevFin Services Pvt Ltd plans to raise around USD 40 million (about Rs 290 crore) through debt and equity by the end of this fiscal to accelerate its lending, according to a top company official.

The financial technology platform with its own NBFC, which focuses on loans for electric small commercial vehicles, has set a target of financing 3 lakh vehicles in the next three years.

"We've set ourselves a target of financing 3,00,000 vehicles in the next three years. That's roughly around Rs 3,000 crore of lending in the next three years, starting with about Rs 200 crore in this year and and the rest coming over the next two years," Revfin Services Pvt Ltd Founder and CEO Sameer Aggarwal told PTI.

Started in 2018, the company has financed about 2,300-2,400 EVs so far, he said adding, "Obviously, last one-and-a-half years we didn't do anything, we just had a few 100 (vehicles) because the market was primarily shut (due to COVID-19)."

When asked about capital requirements, Aggarwal said the company will look at both equity and debt for infusion.

"We are going to lend through our NBFC on our balance sheet, which is what we have done so far. For that, we are going to raise equity and debt...in the next six months, somewhere towards the end of this financial year, we want to do a big fundraising round (equity), around USD 10 million."

Asked if that meant RevFin is looking to raise a total of around USD 40 million in debt and equity by the end of this fiscal year, he said, "Yes."

Before that, he said in the immediate future "in pre-Series A, we are raising equity of about USD 1.5 million".

Sharing the company's expansion plans, Aggarwal said at present the distribution of electric vehicles is mostly across northern parts of the country although it is beginning to expand in western states such as Gujarat and Maharashtra, besides Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh in south.

"North and east we have covered. West and south, the market is still not fully developed. As the market develops and as a need for financing grows in those markets, we will be there," he added.

RevFin has been focussing on financing electric three-wheelers in Tier III and Tier IV towns, primarily to underserved individuals irrespective of credit history, geography, education, or language. It uses a mix of digital psychometric and biometric tests to predict the customer's intention to repay a loan and accordingly sanctions or rejects the loan.

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