# Dodo Digest: We raised $1.1M from Top Global Investors! > Read how Dodo Payments raised $1.1M, expanded global payment support, and shipped new team collaboration and checkout visibility features. - **Author**: Rishabh Goel - **Published**: 2025-03-03 - **Category**: Newsletter - **URL**: https://dodopayments.com/blogs/newsletter-march3rd --- ## **Dodo Payments raises $1.1M from Top Global Investors! 🚀** We're thrilled to announce that [Dodo Payments](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dodopayments/), the first global Merchant of Record (MoR) platform tailored for India and emerging markets has raised $1.1M in pre-seed funding round ðŸĶĪ 🚀 The investment was co-led by [Antler](https://www.linkedin.com/company/antlerglobal/) & [100Unicorns](https://www.linkedin.com/company/100unicorns/) and includes participation from other investors including [Venture Catalysts++ \| India's 1st Multi-Stage VC](https://www.linkedin.com/company/vcatsindia/), [Nitin Gupta](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitinguptaprofile/) (Uni & PayU), Maninder Gulati (ex-Oyo/Lightspeed), [Preethi Kasireddy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/preethi-kasireddy-41383528/) (ex-a16z Partner), [Raymond Russell](https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymond-russell/) (ex-Boom Supersonic CoS) and many more! Our mission is simple: we want to enable businesses globally to effortlessly collect payments from all over the world. Without worrying about payment methods, billing, invoicing, taxes, fraud, chargebacks or rather anything that takes their focus away from their product. Seems pretty straightforward enough right? Not really. It's 2025 now. AI is all the rage. The number of startups popping up every year shatters the previous year's numbers.Businesses from emerging markets are launching products for global audiences from Day0. With AI, the time taken to build and ship products have come insanely down. If software is eating the world, AI is deciding what's on the menu next. And yet, processing global payments have not evolved. [Dodo Payments](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dodopayments/) is changing this. So far, we've made significant strides, working with 1,000+ merchants from over 30 countries, and we're setting our sights higher. By the end of 2025, we aim to onboard 10,000+ merchants globally. Our platform already supports 25+ local payment methods, including Apple Pay, Klarna, Affirm, CashApp, UPI, and all major card networks. With this funding, we're doubling down on our mission to simplify global payments and make cross-border transactions seamless for businesses worldwide. Learn more about our fundraise in our blog, [here](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/dodo-payments-raises-1-1m-to-simplify-global-payments). We're just getting started 🙂 ## **Top Highlights from the week** ðŸ”đ **Teams Feature:** Collaborate seamlessly with your team by inviting Editors and Viewers to your Business. Try it out in the Business > Teams section of the Dashboard. ðŸ”đ **Enhanced Success/Failure Screens:** Updated default success and failure screens for improved customer visibility and invoice download options when no redirect_url is provided. That's all for now but like I've said before, we'd be happy to build features for what you're looking for. You can check out our full changelog here **:** [Dodo Payments Changelog](https://docs.dodopayments.com/changelog/) ## **What's Next?** We're constantly rolling out **exciting updates** and can't wait to share what's coming next.Stay tuned for more insights in the next newsletter! Got feedback or feature requests? Visit our [community forum on Discord](https://discord.com/invite/bYqAp4ayYh) to share your thoughts. Cheers, **Rishabh Goel** **Co-Founder & CEO** **Dodo Payments** --- - [More Newsletter articles](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/category/newsletter) - [All articles](https://dodopayments.com/blogs)