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  • Walden International invests $6M in BankBazaar

    • 25 Mar 2011
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    As some of your would already know, BankBazaar received a $6M investment from Walden International, a leading Global Venture Capital firm. This is going to be used to scale-up very rapidly over the coming year. Refer below for the coverage in various leading blogs and newspapers. On a related note: we are trying to expand and are looking for developers. If you know someone who would fit, please do refer.


    Economic Times Coverage of the Investment is below:


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    Some Other News Coverage Of The Investment:
    • Times of India
    • Economic Times
    • Livemint
    • The Wall Street Journal
    • Financial Chronicle
    • Yahoo!
    • MSN
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    About Walden International

    WI is a leading international venture capital firm that provides investors access to cross-border, IT opportunities with the advantage of an unrivaled Pan Asia network since 1987. The firm’s funds total over US$1.9 billion in committed capital. WI’s investments include Creative Technology (SGX: CREAF SP), MindTree Ltd (BSE: MTCL IN), SINA (NASDAQ: SINA), Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (NYSE: SMI and HKSE: 0981.HK), WebEx (acquired by Cisco). For more information, please visit www.waldenintl.com. 

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  • BankBazaar is looking for Superstar Engineers

    • 20 May 2010
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    Contact Info: Iype Isac (CTO), 98844 12060, careers [at] bankbazaar [dot] com.

    Do you know any company which has done the following within a span of 15 months (with a core engineering team of just 10 people)

    Built a system which has completely replaced the online acquisition platform of:
    - India's biggest home loan lender
    - India's biggest auto loan lender
    - India's biggest personal loan lender
    - India's biggest credit card issuer

    Why would leading portals (MSN, Economic Times) route their entire customer base to us for loan related information?

    Why are leading banks asking us to rebuild their internal banking systems using our platforms?

    The reason: Our superior platform has trumped existing platforms in delivering better results at much lower costs. And what's behind the platform - a world class team of engineers who have it in their DNA to improve & excel. We are expanding rapidly and are looking for more super stars to join us.

    About BankBazaar
    BankBazaar.com is a technology centric company providing innovative products/services in the retail banking space.  Started by team that built Amazon.com's online credit card product pioneering in real time credit delivery, our team today is 35 strong with the top online technology specialists from Amazon.com, Microsoft, and Trilogy from universities such as CEG, REC-Trichy, Columbia, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, ISB and other top rung universities. BankBazaar has secured funding in July 2008 and we are showing strong revenue growth month over month.

    What do we do?
    We develop products that power www.bankbazaar.com and online loan/credit-card delivery systems of top Indian banks like HDFC Bank, ING Vysya, ABN AMRO, HDFC LTD and the finance section of popular sites like MSN India, Economic Times.  The core work involves building the BankBazaar platform and highly scalable applications on top of it. This includes development of business rule engines, business process automation workflows, highly customizable web site platforms and intelligent credit decisioning and fraud detection systems.  In addition, we are extending the usage of the same platform in branch banking and mobile banking.

    Why work for BankBazaar?
    You will be a part of a small core engineering team that is revolutionizing the banking software/services industry.  We maintain a flat organization and an agile work environment. Each engineer carries a lot of ownership and adds tremendous value by working on high impact problems using innovative methods.  Being a startup, everyone is exposed to the big picture and gets the opportunity to be a part of the big decisions. We are a fast growing company providing excellent learning and growth opportunities.

    Want to join us?
    We are seeking smart programmers who are gung ho about building large scale systems that are going to have a big impact on millions of customers around the world.  These are the skills/qualifications that are preferred:

        * Bachelors or Masters engineering degree from a reputed college
        * Strong grasp of CS fundamentals and excellent problem solving abilities.
        * Experience with hands on coding and independent ownership of software components
        * Advanced knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
        * Web savvy, Experience with Java, PHP, MySQL and Javascript

    Send your resumes to careers [at] bankbazaar [dot] com if you are interested and spread the word around :)

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