At Best Startup India we track over 400,000 Indian startups and over 1,800,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 15 Lending companies in Chennai. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Lending Companies & Startups (Chennai)
Shriram City Union Finance
Shriram City Union Finance is a non-banking financial company based in Tamil Nadu.
Founder(s): Ramamurthy Thyagarajan
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Lending
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Belstar Investment and Finance Private Limited
Belstar Investment and Finance Private Limited is a provider of scalable microfinance services to entrepreneurs.
Founder(s): Kalpana Sankar
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Industries: Financial Services, Micro Lending
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Swarna Pragati Housing Microfinance
Swarna Pragati Housing Microfinance provides housing microfinance loan products for low-income households in rural areas in India.
Founder(s): Prashant Banerjee
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Lending, Micro Lending, Real Estate
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Asirvad Microfinance
Asirvad Microfinance provides microfinance loans to women from a poor and low-income households.
Founder(s): S V Raja Vaidyanathan
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Industries: Financial Services, Micro Lending
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OptaCredit
OptaCredit is an artificial intelligence-powered, data-driven online lender
Founder(s): Kumar Srivatsan, Sriram Chandramouli
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Credit, Lending
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OpenTap
It is an early stage AltFin company working towards financial empowerment of the aspirational Indian population.
Founder(s): Senthil Natarajan, Suresh Venkataramani
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Industries: Consumer Lending, Financial Services, FinTech, Personal Finance
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Ezee Pay
Ezee Pay provides mobile based payment solutions and data analytics.
Founder(s): Velayudam Murugan
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Industries: Analytics, Banking, Financial Services, Lending, Mobile Payments
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Madura Microfinance
To deliver viable credit to microentrepreneurs with the greatest potential to create scalable enterprise and economic value.
Founder(s): K.M. Thiagarajan
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Lending
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Emibazaar
Emibazaar is an online shopping website that offers various products in Electronics, Lifestyle, Travel, Health, Books, etc.
Founder(s): Abhijit Bhandari
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Industries: Banking, Consumer, E-Commerce, Internet, Lending, Payments, Shopping, Venture Capital
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Quikrupee
Quikrupee is an online financial marketplace.
Founder(s): Jyotsna Vasudevan
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Industries: Banking, Financial Services, FinTech, Lending, Marketplace
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Meenakshi Enterprises
Meenakshi Enterprises is also active in lending money or lending to both corporate and HNI customers.
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Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Industries: Lending
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Fundboon
Fundboon.com is an online fund manager dedicated to provide personalized loan services for customers.
Founder(s): SUJITH KUMAR
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Industries: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Lending
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Dharani Finance
Dharani Finance is involved in hire purchase, leasing of machinery, financing and foreign exchange.
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Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Industries: Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, Lending
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Hasti Finance
Hasti Finance is engaged in the business of leasing, hire purchase, home loans, investment banking and other financial services.
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Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Industries: Banking, Financial Services, Leasing, Lending
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Ind Bank Housing
Ind Bank Housing operates in the business of providing housing loans.
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Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Industries: Consumer Lending, Financial Services
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