India's Most Innovative Companies

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A Little World
India\'s Most Innovative Companies
ALW (A Little World) is the developer of ZERO, India's first domestic payment system with specific focus on reaching out to masses with lowest available communication infrastructure. ALW was founded by Anurag Gupta for conceptualization of ZERO for branchless banking, and in bringing key banks and industry majors to support the implementation Financial Inclusion in villages. The Mumbai-based tech shop's 2003 incubation of Mchek, a mobile-to-mobile payment platform, was later adopted by the state of India and Airtel before it was spun off into a stand-alone business three years later. Its ZERO is bringing about real difference in the lives of the underserved population in India by providing access to banking and financial services at their doorstep.