{"id":2357,"date":"2019-12-24T11:21:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T05:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rzpwp.blog\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2023-01-03T19:29:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T13:59:04","slug":"2019-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/2019-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 &#8211; The Year That Was for Razorpay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As 2019 draws to a close, it\u2019s a good time to sit back and relive how the year has been for us. In many ways, 2019 was a big year for not only Razorpay, but the fintech industry as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have captured how the year was for us in the infographic below, but allow me to talk about some highlights here as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We served 960k plus businesses on our platform this year<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IFTA announced us as the most innovative payments startup and we made it to Y-Combinator\u2019s list of top 100 companies as well<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our co-founders, Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar, brought home the Young Alumnus Award 2019 award from their alma mater, IIT Roorkee<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Razorpay acquired two businesses this year &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/thirdwatch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thirdwatch<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/opfin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Opfin<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We processed payouts volume worth $3 billion on RazorpayX<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our product portfolio also grew by leaps and bounds, notably:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/payment-pages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Payment Pages<\/a> allows businesses to accept payments without a website or app<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support for <a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/freelancer-unregistered-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">freelancers<\/a>, consultants and Individual businesses<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Current accounts and corporate credit cards on <a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RazorpayX<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Personally, I love the fact that we were able to save transaction time worth nearly 6 years through our card saving feature! And of course, we pulled off the country\u2019s biggest fintech event in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fwj3Ye3kf1M&amp;list=PLQWuy5G1gIOp8d39uGKB5hwmHd5Mov-cv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">FTX 2019<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So yes, 2019 has been an outstanding year for Razorpay. As we set foot into the new decade, we have big plans laid out to help businesses <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;q=%23OutgrowOrdinary&amp;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">#OutgrowOrdinary<\/a>. Through our acquisitions, we\u2019ll help e-commerce businesses fight fraud and streamline their payroll processes as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But until then, thank you for your support and faith in us. Here\u2019s wishing you and your business a very happy new year, filled with boundless growth opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Year-in-Review-2019-1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2362 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Year-in-Review-2019-1.png\" alt=\"2019 year end review razorpay\" width=\"1200\" height=\"8772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Year-in-Review-2019-1.png 1200w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Year-in-Review-2019-1-41x300.png 41w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Year-in-Review-2019-1-140x1024.png 140w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Year-in-Review-2019-1-768x5614.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Year-in-Review-2019-1-210x1536.png 210w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Year-in-Review-2019-1-280x2048.png 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From acquiring two startups to launching 8 new products, 2019 has been a fabulous year for Razorpay. Here are notable highlights in our year-end review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":2361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[53],"class_list":{"0":"post-2357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-razorpay-stories","8":"tag-razorpay-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}