Gaurav Mishra’s LinkedIn shows he served as Co-Founder & CEO of Cradle from Mar 2020 to Aug 2022 and says the business pivoted because margins were poor, support costs were high, and regulation was difficult.
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Cradle is a Bengaluru-based fintech startup that built a B2B payments network for Indian SMBs, letting businesses collect online payments from other businesses without interchange fees.
Primary product
B2B payments network for fee-free online collections
Founded
2020
Headquarters
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Team size
1-10
Industry
Fintech
Sub-industry
B2B payments
Offices
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Business model
Stage
seed
Total raised
$398K
Latest round
Seed · Nov 2020
Latest amount
$273K
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Founders
Siddhartha Gorantla
Co-Founder
Investors
Pricing
Fee-free B2B payment collection; monetization beyond that is not publicly detailed.
Differentiators
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
₹0-₹10 Cr
Gaurav Mishra’s LinkedIn shows he served as Co-Founder & CEO of Cradle from Mar 2020 to Aug 2022 and says the business pivoted because margins were poor, support costs were high, and regulation was difficult.
Sourcecradlefinance.com now resolves to an unrelated cradle.io business-phone-system product, suggesting the historic fintech domain has been repurposed.
SourceLinkedIn · Jul 2026
States he was Co-Founder & CEO of Cradle from Mar 2020 to Aug 2022 and notes the business pivoted because of low margins, high support costs, and regulatory challenges.
aVenture · Mar 2024
Describes Cradle as an India-based B2B payments and financing hub, with a founder-led small team and early-2020 funding context.
Tracxn · Aug 2021
Summarizes Cradle as a Bengaluru fintech founded in 2019/2020 with $398K across two seed rounds and founders Gaurav Mishra and Siddhartha Gorantla.
Entrepreneur India · Aug 2020
Lists Cradle among YC’s Summer 2020 Indian startups and describes it as a B2B payments network.
TechCrunch · Aug 2020
Introduces Cradle as an Indian SMB B2B payments platform built on fee-free B2B payments.