Many people know of Philip Belamant, the South African serial entrepreneur who is best known for co-founding Zilch, one of the most impactful fintech companies to have disrupted, strengthened, and supported the buy-now-pay-later market. Zilch has made this industry a safer space for consumers to shop without being caught out by late fees and soaring interest rates.has seen him become a well-established figure in the UK and U.S. worlds of financial innovation.
PBel also partnered with outreach programmes like the MasterCard World Food Programme and the IFC World Food Programme to distribute funds to individuals in third-world countries who were using green screen phones. These partnerships enabled Philip Belamant to facilitate a net benefit to society.in South Africa to pave the way for healthy change in regulations. To achieve this, he presented new technologies to governments, explaining how these technologies could benefit consumers.
Philip Belamant’s original plan was to employ biometrics to identify prospective customers, but this wasn’t possible in the era of the green screen phone. As an alternative, he used voice biometric technology codes) to identify customers, who could simply state their full name for PBel to recognise them and know they weren’t using a recording. Philip Belamant later developed this system with face biometric matching.
Additionally, in November 2021, Ventura Capital and Gauss Ventures invested $110 million into the company. Further to this,, when the payments company secured $50 million for its Series C, where shares were valued at just under £1,300, raising a total of $160 million. This share value marks an impressive rise compared to the £49 value of a share in the Series A.
In the two years since Zilch’s launch in the UK, the payments company has grown from inception to £1 billion of gross merchandise value . 2 million customers from the UK alone signed up to use Zilch within its first 18 months, which saw the fintech grow faster than companies like Klarna, Wise, Afterpay, NU, Revolut, and Robinhood. Now, over 250,000 customers sign up to use Zilch in the UK every month.
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