Bharat Pe to expand across South, double headcount
Bharat Pe is planning to more than double its headcount in six months, expand its presence across the South and target loan disbursement of Rs. 70 crore in 2019.
Ashneer Grover, Chief Executive Director and Co-founder, Bharat Pe, said the company would be on-boarding 2,500 field staff and sales personnel to the existing 2,000-plus employees in six months. “We are looking to hire 1,000 each at Bengaluru and Hyderabad along with 500 in the new cities we plan to enter. Our vision is to enable seamless UPI payments for every offline merchant.”
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The fintech company now operates across 13 cities, serving over 9 lakh merchants in places such as Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Indore, Bhopal, Nagpur, Chandigarh, Mysuru, and Visakhapatnam.