Karbon Card targets to achieve $300 million in GTV by year-end
- ByStartupStory | November 26, 2021
Bengaluru-based fintech company, Karbon card, specializing in corporate cards, said it would achieve an annualized gross transaction value (GTV) of $300 million by the end of this year on the back of a bounce-back in the economy.
In December, the company expects to have a ten times growth in its GTV at $25 million compared to the same period last year when the pandemic was at its peak.
With the economy recovering and people returning to offices, Karbon expects corporates and startups to increase their corporate spending. The company has sold more cards during the festive period (October to November) as corporate travel and gifting took center stage.
“With our current growth rate (in terms of gross transaction value), we could become one of the Top 10 corporate card players (including banks) by Q1 of next year,” said Kartik Jain, cofounder of Karbon Card.
Founded in early 2019, Karbon has onboarded 1,500 corporates and startups so far and would be doubling the number of clients by Q3 2022.
The Y Combinator-backed fintech provides corporate credit cards to small businesses and startups. Its card replaces personal credit cards for use by employees of corporations — companies give these cards to their employees for a variety of services, including meeting expenses related to travel, out-of-pocket costs, in the form of financial rewards, salaries, and other corporate use-cases. From the corporate perspective, these cards allow them to track expenses on a real-time basis.
Jain said that Karbon is also looking to increase the number of lending partners to the company’s balance sheet (lending size) and thus achieve higher transaction levels.
“As a corporate card company offering cards to corporates, we want to be known as a ‘Bank for Corporates’, and also to gain the status of a neobank, going forward. We want to expand our partnership with other lenders to cater to the planned products and increased usage on the cards,” Jain added.
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