Parikh’s goal is to be preferred financial partner for small-medium businesses
Bengaluru’s Scienaptic AI says Profectus Capital is now live on its platform, while it will also use AI technology to determine risk patterns in customer behavior and provide sharper predictive risk signals.
As a part of Phase-I implementation, Scienaptic has deployed its credit decisioning engine and industry-tested scorecards for Bureau data and Financial Statements to enhance small and medium business (SMB) loan decisions.
“Our goal is to be a preferred financial partner for the small-medium businesses of India by providing better credit access to the credit-underserved,” Nimesh Parikh, CRO, Profectus Capital, said on 18 April 2021.
“We are presently lending to 11 Clusters across 18+ locations and plan to establish a presence in many more states soon.
“In support to our mission, Scienaptic AI’s credit decisioning platform will be automating our SMB loan decisioning process and providing intelligent signals to help us scale approval rates while continuing to keep NPAs very low.
“The platform will be providing a smoother experience for our customers and sharper data driven insights to our underwriters.”
Correspondingly, Joydip Gupta, Business Leader Scienaptic AI, cited, “We are delighted to be working with Profectus Capital to help strengthen the credit and financing opportunities for its clients.
“Profectus has tremendous domain expertise in MSME/SME funding and are poised to scale their asset base dramatically.
“We are sure that Scienaptic’s unique, adaptive AI technology will enable the company to serve more SMEs, reduce credit risk and create maximum social impact to the manufacturing and service sectors of India.”
Established in 2017, Mumbai-headquartered Profectus Capital is a systematically important non-banking financial company registered with the Reserve Bank of India. It offers term loans and working capital loans to small-medium enterprises operating in the manufacturing and service sectors. fiinews.com