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▶ 17:00 · $RAZORPAY · Razorpay CEO sees India payments market growing to $1T+ from $180B current GMV
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Y Combinator

Harshil Mathur: AI Is Compressing Every Moat

2026-05-06 · 2 company · 4 thematic
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harshil mathur

Co-founded Razorpay in 2014 after experiencing payment acceptance challenges as a developer; led the company through Y Combinator Winter 2015 as the first Indian startup accepted, scaling to India's largest payments platform processing $180B GMV.

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“Today, Razorpay alone does $180 billion, right? So, that is the way the market has grown in last 10 years, right? So, it's so hard to plan for India. Now, if I told a company that hey, for a $60 million market, we need $500 million to buil…”
—harshil mathur
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