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BNPL venture ZestMoney’s founders launch B2B fintech co SwiffyLabs

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Lizzie Chapman and Ashish Anantharaman, the founders of “buy now pay later” (BNPL) firm ZestMoney, have launched a startup called SwiffyLabs, a business-to-business (B2B) fintech company building infrastructure for banks and financial institutions.The venture aims to help financial institutions launch new-age products like embedded finance and invoice financing, and to take advantage of the advancements in artificial intelligence and digital public infrastructure (DPI).This development comes almost a month after ZestMoney, founded in 2015, shut down amid an unsuccessful attempt to revive its business under new management and regulatory uncertainty. Chapman and Anantharaman had left ZestMoney in May 2023.