Kunal Shah

CRED is expanding into wealth management with its acquisition of Kuvera, targeting affluent investors. The platform aims to enhance investor discipline and decision-making, emphasizing long-term compounding over frequent trading. Kuvera's redesigned approach focuses on behavioral insights, helping wealthy individuals make smarter investment choices. This move positions Kuvera as CRED's primary wealth division within its premium finance ecosystem.

Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal's new health-tech startup, Temple, sparked online debate with its unusual hiring rule requiring specific body fat percentages for engineering roles. While met with humor and memes, the announcement coincided with Temple securing $54 million in fresh funding, valuing the startup at $190 million.

Cred founder Kunal Shah suggests a link between increased mobile internet data speeds and declining birth rates in India. With India's fertility rate now at 2.01, slightly below replacement level, Shah's post sparked debate on social media, with some agreeing and others dismissing the idea as spurious correlation.

Zerodha CEO Nithin Kamath humorously revealed his credit score of 747, finding himself ineligible for CRED, Kunal Shah's exclusive credit rewards platform. The revelation sparked online discussions about credit score requirements and accessibility. Shah responded, offering assistance and highlighting the importance of credit score awareness, prompting varied reactions from users.

Kunal Shah has just sold his four-year-old online mobile recharge venture FreeCharge, which he started with friend Sandeep Tandon, to Snapdeal for a whopping $400 million, the largest deal to date in India's consumer internet space.

Bengaluru-based Cred, founded by Kunal Shah, prioritizes hiring employees with good credit scores of 750 or above to reinforce responsible credit behavior. The company has also launched new credit-focused features like Svalbard to enhance users’ credit management and empower financially responsible decisions.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman questioned the venture capital industry's persistent aggregate losses despite ongoing funding. Cred CEO Kunal Shah responded with "Hopium," while others debated the long-term, high-risk nature of VC and accountability. Replit CEO Amjad Masad jokingly suggested funds go to AI tokens and San Francisco landlords, highlighting allocation strategies and long investment horizons.

New Delhi, Jun 21 () X1 Racing League, in which ex-CEO of FreeCharge Kunal Shah and Jitendra Gupta of PayU are investors, today said it proposes to invest over Rs 100 crore in the next three years to promote motor racing.

Cred's CEO Kunal Shah has implemented a hiring policy requiring employees to have a credit score of 750 or higher, promoting responsible financial behaviour. New hires with lower scores receive three months and assistance to improve. This aligns with Cred's mission to foster financial responsibility within its workforce.

The NGO World Vision India has deployed a team to assess the damage and need in the worst-affected areas of Uttarakhand before beginning relief operations.

Credit card bill payment platform Cred is buying corporate expense management firm Happay in a cash and stock deal valuing the latter at $180 million (Rs 1,350 crore).

Snapdeal co-founder Kunal Bahl and FreeCharge founder Kunal Shah had been doing business together for many months before they decided to merge.

Shah, who is also the chairman of the Snapdeal-owned digital payments platform, is expected to play an active role in mentoring Sequoia.

The Bay of Bengal region will undergo a dire and drastic transformation unless urgent action is taken to deal with the disastrous effects of global warming, climate change experts have warned.

Serial entrepreneur Kunal Shah’s two-year-old startup Cred has been valued at $806 million in a new round of funding of $81 million led by existing investor DST Global. DST Global has backed major internet startups like Swiggy, Ola, Udaan, Byju’s and most recently Cars24.

CRED founder Kunal Shah suggests that credit card users should try to repay in full on time if they can to avoid paying high interest rates later.

Andhra Pradesh-based franchised supermarket retailer SuperK, which is backed by a host of startup veterans like Flipkart’s Binny Bansal, Cred’s Kunal Shah, Slice’s Rajan Bajaj and Bigbasket’s Srinivas Anumolu, among others, is gunning for a major expansion which includes expanding its

The petitioner's advocate Kunal Shah said that the trustees are facing accusations of nepotism as well, but the authorities are silent on the complaint.They have not taken any decision in this regard.

Cybersecurity firm CloudSek has raised $7 million (Rs 50 crore) in its Series A investment led by MassMutual Ventures.