Our story

We’re building the quiet infrastructure for frictionless payments.

CeletelPay is the payment hardware division of Celetel — a communications company. We design, certify and deliver smart POS terminals that put biometric payments in the hands of merchants everywhere.

Mission

Make paying feel like nothing at all.

Payments should not be a moment of friction. They should happen in the background — fast, fair and secure — so people can focus on what they came to buy, not how they’ll pay for it.

We build terminals that remove the last points of friction: no card to fumble for, no phone to unlock, no PIN pad to poke. Just a wave, a tap, or a glance. And for operators, a single platform that handles every rail with the same trust and the same economics.

Our values

Four principles that shape every product we ship.

Privacy first

We never store an image of your palm. Templates are one-way, encrypted, and revocable.

Open by default

Android, an SDK and open APIs — we want your team to build on top of us.

Certification obsessed

PCI-PTS v6, EMV L1/L2, SOC 2. We put our hardware and software through the toughest labs.

Globally local

Our firmware ships localised for 40+ markets — languages, tax rules, and clearing networks.

Milestones

A short history of CeletelPay.

2022

Incubation

CeletelPay is incubated inside Celetel’s communications lab as project VeinPay.

2024

First pilots

Nova N3 pilots with transit operators and bank branches in four countries.

2025

Vega P1 launch

The flagship palm vein smart POS ships to retail, hospitality and healthcare partners.

2026

Going global

Lyra Q2 and Orion T8 extend the family for QR-first markets and dual-screen counter registers.

Leadership

Payments, biometrics, and communications — under one roof.

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Lalit Upadhyay

Founder & CEO

Founded Celetel in 2018. Leads CeletelPay’s product and go-to-market.

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Ayesha Nair

VP Hardware Engineering

15 years in payment terminal design — previously led PCI-PTS certification programmes.

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Marco Tavares

VP Biometrics & Security

Cryptographer and biometric researcher. Architected the CeletelPay secure vault.

About the parent

CeletelPay is backed by Celetel.

Celetel is a communications platform that helps companies run their customer campaigns in one place — SMS, voice, WhatsApp, email and now payments. CeletelPay extends that platform into the physical world, so a message, a conversation and a checkout can be part of the same customer journey.