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DirectPay wins Seedstars Colombo 2018

Seedstars World, the largest start-up competition for emerging markets and fast-growing start-up scenes, brought its Sri Lanka round to a successful close during Seedstars Colombo. The event took place on 25 October at Hatch, where 11 selected start-ups presented their companies in front of a jury panel of experts.
DirectPay won the Sri Lanka round of Seedstars World, organised by SLASSCOM. They will participate at the Seedstars Asia Summit 2018, to be held in Bangkok for the second time, and at Seedstars Global Summit in Switzerland.

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The CIMA Launch Pad 2018 Finale

Held on the 3rd of November 2018 at Hatch, the final round of the CIMA Launch Pad 2018 saw 6 teams making their pitch to a panel of judges. Coming in at 3rd Place was Direct Pay.

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Fintech startups make Sri Lanka proud by winning Gold and Merit awards at APICTA.

The 18th Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APITCA) awards 2018, which was held in Guangzhou, China from 10 to 14 October, named DirectPay as the overall winner in the Consumer – Wealth and Retail Category and Park and Pay with a Merit Award in the Start Up of the Year – Business and Community Category.
The APICTA Awards is the largest IT competition in the Asia Pacific Region organized in order to bring awareness on ICT amongst the community and assist in bridging the digital divide. The award brings recognition to innovative products and solutions from ICT talents originating from the Asia Pacific region.

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THE FINTECH REVOLUTION BEGINS IN SRI LANKA

Cards and Mobile Wallets have largely failed to challenge the dominance of cash in retail transactions. Now, a unique concept using the simple smartphone is set to usher in a profound transformation. The less cash era has dawned in Sri Lanka with participation of a few progressive fintech companies, and life will never be the same again.
DirectPay was founded with the aim of disrupting Sri Lanka’s fintech industry. Our ‘consumer-centric’ approach is our strength. Through this, we hope to transform their experience and engagement with financial services. In less than a year, DirectPay has built a merchant base of more than 2,500. We aim to increase it to 15,000 by the end of 2018. In addition, we have the support of more than 70% of billers in Sri Lanka who have joined hands with us to accept payment through DirectPay.

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Kanishka Weeramunda Bags Two Awards At The CMI Excellence Awards

DirectPay CEO and Founder, Kanishka Weeramunda, has been named the Best CEO of the Year and the Best Future Leader of the Year in the small and medium service sector category at the CMI Excellence Awards 2017, which was held at Shangri-La Colombo. For the first time in Sri Lanka, the Chartered Management Institute of UK – Sri Lanka branch, introduced CMI Management Excellence Awards (CMI-MEA) to reward and recognize the most promising and innovative leaders in the Sri Lankan business community

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DIRECTPAY EMERGES AMONG THE TOP STARTUPS AT INFOTEL

DirectPay was among the top 3 startups at Infotel 2017, which is Sri Lanka’s biggest ICT exhibition and conference celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary this year. At Infotel, you are sure to find anything from young startups to enterprise IT hardware to towering gaming PCs to stalls of leading companies.

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DirectPay wins big at Disrupt Asia 2017

DirectPay was recognized as the runner up for its innovative solution at the Hemas Slingshot Startup Battle at Disrupt Asia 2017. Having debuted into the market with a bang with this achievement, DirectPay is now set to be one of the key game changers in the industry.

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