Mosambee touches Rs 240 Cr revenue in FY24; profit surges 87%

Pine Labs-backed mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) provider Mosambee has continued to demonstrate year-on-year profitable growth. The firm increased its operating scale by over 28% in the fiscal year ending March 2024, while its profit rose by 87% during the same period

Mosambee’s revenue from operations grew to Rs 240 crore during the last fiscal year, from Rs 187 crore in FY23, its annual financial statements sourced from the Registrar of Companies (RoC) show.

Mosambee is an EMV-enabled mPOS system that provides payment solutions for debit credit card transactions along with mobile-based payment options. Income derived from service rental, transaction processing, and settlement formed 68% of the total revenue which increased 52.3% to Rs 163 crore in FY24.

The rest of the operating revenue generated from the sale of PoS (point of sale) devices which saw a modest 3.4% decline to Rs 77 crore in the last fiscal year, compared to Rs 80 crore in FY23.

On the cost side, the cost of procurement of devices became the largest cost center forming 40% of the overall cost. This cost grew 15.3% to Rs 83 crore in FY24 from Rs 72 crore in FY23. Its employee benefit increased by 5.2% to Rs 61 crore in FY24 which includes Rs 8.7 crore as ESOP cost (non-cash). The firm’s burn on legal, technology, communication, transaction services, and other overheads pushed the total expenditure up by 19.4% to Rs 203 crore in FY24.

The decent growth and controlled expenditure helped Mosambee to grow its profits by 86.7% to Rs 28 crore in FY24. Its ROCE and EBITDA margins improved to 31.25% and 23.33%, respectively.

Mosambee’s expense-to-earning ratio stood at Rs 0.85 in the last fiscal year. The company has a total current assets of Rs 296 crore with cash and bank balances of Rs 13 crore during the said fiscal year.

In April 2022, Pine Labs acquired a majority stake in Mosambee, boosting its valuation to over $100 million. Prior to this, in February 2022, Mosambee announced its acquisition of Benow, a digital payments and EMI technology platform. However, in March of this year, Mosambee secured a Series B funding round from Rajasthan Venture Capital Fund (RVCF) and SIDBI Venture Capital Ltd.