New Delhi, 17 May 2022: MissCallPay, India’s first voice-based payment Fintech startup which runs on UPI 123Pay, bags the title ‘TiE50’ at the world’s largest technology-anchored entrepreneurship conference, TiEcon 2022. The company contested amongst thousands of startups, triumphing them all, and was also amongst the group of 18 non-USA startups. Mitesh Thakker, founder of MissCallPay was honored in the presence of eminent corporate leaders, investors, and other big players in the industry.
Commenting on being felicitated as the ‘TiE50 winner’ Mr. Mitesh Thakker, Founder of MissCallPay, said, “I am greatly privileged and would like to thank the jury for appreciation of my efforts towards less-cash society. I am taking this most prestigious award on behalf of my incredible team at MissCallPay.”
Mr. Thakker further added, “Usually innovation is targeted towards tech-savvy smart-phone users while our entire efforts are tuned to make UPI revolution reach masses, beyond tech-savvy smartphone users and even include feature phone users with basic verbal linguistic skills and number literacy. MissCallPay aims to enhance security, provide simpler user experience, with higher trust quotient, while increasing productivity of our users and merchants is what makes MissCallPay different from rest”.
MissCallPay Bags Silicon Valley’s Most Prestigious Award – Tie50 2022, at Premier Global Conference
This 13-year-old awards competition is an initiative taken by TiE Silicon Valley, a not-for-profit organisation, at TiEcon their world’s largest conference for entrepreneurs is ranked alongside conferences such as World Economic Forum ( WEF), TED and DEMO., TiEcon sees participations from 10,000 attendees and brings together global thought leaders, innovators, venture capitalists, technology firms across the world to inspire and advance entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship.
In the past, MissCallPay has won the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenge for feature phones-based payment solutions in 2020 and received grants from the esteemed foundation. Also, MissCallPay is proudly incubated by leading startup incubators in the country – CIIE IIM Ahmedabad and i-Hub Gujarat and awarded at Maharashtra Startup Week 2019.
The company is presently angel-funded backed by HNI’s and plans to raise Series-A in the span of the next 6 months.
