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Paytm (a partial short-form for "pay through mobile") is a fintech company that offers full stack payments and financial solutions to customers, based in Noida. It represents considerable authority in digital payment systems, e-commerce, and the financial services industry. The organization gives its enrolled clients an app to make monetary exchanges and payments to different dealers and financial institutions.
According to surveys, more than 2 crore merchants all over India utilize their QR code payment system to accept payments directly into their bank accounts. 

Paytm was established in August 2010 with an underlying venture of US$2 million by its founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma in Noida,. It got going as a prepaid portable and DTH recharge platform and later added data card, postpaid mobile, and landline bill payments three years later. By January 2014, the organization had successfully sent off the Paytm Wallet.

In 2015, it added education fees, metro recharges, electricity, gas, and even water bill payments to make money transactions quick and seamless. 

In March 2015, Paytm accepted its enormous stake from the Chinese web-based business organization Alibaba Group after Ant Financial Services Group, an Alibaba Group member, put 40% stock in Paytm as a component of a vital agreement which later got backing from Ratan Tata, the MD of Tata Sons. In 2016, it sent off ticketing for movies, various events, amusement parks, flight ticket appointments and Paytm QR. Later in 2016, it sent off rail bookings and gift vouchers.

In May 2017, Paytm accepted its greatest round of stake by a solitary financial backer - SoftBank, thus bringing the organization's valuation to an expected $7 billion. In August 2018, Berkshire Hathaway contributed $356 million for a 3%-4% stake in Paytm, even though Berkshire Hathaway affirmed that Warren Buffett was not associated with the transaction.

In the year 2017, the company became the country's first-ever payments app to surpass the threshold of 100 million downloads. Today Paytm boasts of 1.2 billion monthly transactions (as of March 1, 2021) with over 150 million monthly active users.

And in that very year, it sent off Paytm Gold, an item that permitted clients to purchase just INR 1 of pure gold online. It additionally sent off Paytm Payments Bank and 'Inbox', an informing stage with in-chat payments. By 2018, it began permitting merchants to acknowledge Paytm, UPI, and card payments straightforwardly into their financial balances at a 0% charge. Paytm also sent off the 'Paytm for Business' app (presently known as the Business with Paytm App) to permit traders to follow their payments and everyday settlements. Its merchant base will develop to more than 70 lakh by March 2018. It sent off two new abundance of the executive's items - Paytm Gold Savings Plan and Gold Gifting for long-term savings.

In January 2018, Paytm went into a joint endeavour with Alibaba Group-claimed gaming organization AGTech Holdings to send off Gamepind. This portable gaming platform was rebranded as Paytm First Games next year. In March 2018, Paytm Money was begun with INR 9 crore for speculation and abundance management. In March 2019, the firm sent off a membership-based loyalty program called Paytm First, and two months later, it cooperated with Citibank to send off a Paytm First credit card. On 25 November 2019, Paytm brought $1 billion up in a subsidizing round driven by US resource chief T Rowe Price alongside existing financial backers Ant Financial and SoftBank Vision Fund. In July 2020, Tata Starbucks joined hands with Paytm, permitting its clients to order food online during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

In July 2021, One97 Communications recorded a draft distraction outline with India's Securities and Exchange Board (SEBI) to send off its Initial Public Offering (IPO). It sent off its IPO in November 2021, raising ₹18,300 crores (US$2.4 billion) at a valuation of US$20 billion, which was the biggest ever IPO in India to date. The shares started exchanging on 18 November 2021, opening at INR 1,950 on the NSE, 9.3% beneath the upper band of the IPO cost range, and shut down over 27% at INR 1,560, which made it the greatest drop on a posting day in Indian IPO history. 

Conclusion

Paytm is one of the leading companies in India and is very likely to hold its position in the upcoming years as well. Therefore, it’d be fair to keep this stock as a long-term investment in your portfolio.