B2B payments Firm. BharatPe, that is making 'UPI' Payment as universally accepted payment method at offline merchants, has launched BharatX -- its research lab, to promote the development and experimenting of radical ideas to solve the next set of merchant and business challenges with innovative product solutions.
With the research lab, BharatPe wants to ensure financial inclusion of over 60 million small and medium merchants in India.
Bharat X will focus on cutting-edge research across the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Data Science, Financial Services, Modeling and several other areas.
Besides this, the fintech firm has also launched an internship program for the students who have graduated in year 2020 from the 14 selected U.S. Universities and have been adversely impacted by the COVID lockdown or work visa related changes introduced by the government of the US.
The internship, which has duration from 3 to 6 months, has stipend of INR 100,000 per month. Stpident will be paid to anyone who is eligible to work in India. Though, currently only Indian citizens can work without any work visa in India.
BharatPe Internship is open in fields including AI/ML, Augmented Reality, Human Computer Interaction, Credit Risk Modeling, Financial Services, Marketing, Strategy etc.