Question: Vijay Shekhar Singh Sharma is the founder of an Indian electronic payment and e-commerce brand that as of January 2017 has many employees?

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Progressive Brothers: Progressive Brothers is an Indian electronic music duo band from New Delhi.  The band consists of Sunny Sharma and Karan Bhalla; who are music producer, DJ, singer, and songwriter.  Progressive Brothers have played at India's biggest electronic music festivals like Sunburn, VH1 Supersonic and Enchanted Valley Carnival.  They have also performed at numerous events and college festivals across India.

Paytm: Paytm is an Indian electronic payment and e-commerce brand based out of Delhi NCR, India.  Launched in August 2010, it is a consumer brand of parent company One97 Communications.  The name is an acronym for "Payment Through Mobile."  The company employs over 13,000 employees as of January 2017 and has 3 million offline merchants across India.  It also operates the Paytm payment gateway and the Paytm Wallet.

E-commerce payment system: An e-commerce payment system facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions.  Also known as a sample of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), e-commerce payment systems have become increasingly popular due to the widespread use of the internet-based shopping and banking.

EFTPOS: Electronic funds transfer at point of sale (EFTPOS ) is an electronic payment system involving electronic funds transfers based on the use of payment cards, such as debit or credit cards, at payment terminals located at points of sale.  EFTPOS technology originated in the United States in 1981 and was adopted by other countries.  In Australia and New Zealand, it is also the brand name of a specific system used for such payments; these systems are mainly country specific and do not interconnect.

Chandra Shekhar: Chandra Shekhar Singh (1 July 1927 – 8 July 2007) was an Indian politician who, for a short period of time, served as the 8th Prime Minister of India, between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991.

PAX Technology: PAX Global Technology (informally known as PAX or PAX Technology) is a major suppliers of electronic payment terminals.  Headquartered in Shenzhen (China), PAX has a manufacturing and research and development facilities in China and direct offices in China, the USA and Italy.  The rest of the world goes to market through a wide network of channel partners and payment system integrators.  As of 2017 it had over 17 million terminals installed worldwide.  The company is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange as PAX Global Technology Ltd and is ranked as one of the top 3 global payment terminal solution suppliers.

Vijay Shekhar Sharma: Vijay Shekhar Singh Sharma is an Indian entrepreneur and founder of mobile payments company, Paytm.

Jaclyn Tsai: Jaclyn Tsai or Tsai Yu-ling () is a politician in the Republic of China (Taiwan).  She was the Minister without Portfolio of the Executive Yuan since November 2013 until 20 May 2016.  She dedicated substantial effort to promote e-commerce related laws and industrial development, with the draft Regulations on the Management of Electronic Payment Institutions (third-party payer) passing the third reading at the Legislative Yuan on January 16, 2015 and entering into law on May 3 of the same.  The 15 related authorization provisions were completed by the Financial Supervisory Commission on May 3, 2015.  Minister Tsai also promoted an amendment of the Company Act to include a new dedicated section on "closed companies".  The amendment passed the third reading at the Legislative Yuan on June 15, 2015 and promulgated in September __, 2015.  The new language included covers the multiple voting rights of special shares, shares without par value and other new rules to provide greater flexibility to start-ups in determining their shareholding structure.  Third, Entrepreneur Visas - the Executive Yuan established the Innovation and Startups Taskforce, which is further split into four separate groups for promoting the plan to transform Taiwan into the Silicon Valley of Asia and where young entrepreneurs may realize their dreams.  Among the four groups, the "Start-up Environment Group" is focused on bringing entrepreneurial talent, learning from other countries' experiences and establish the "Entrepreneur Visa" program to incentivize foreign entrepreneurs to come to Taiwan for start-ups, thereby synergizing global creativity with Taiwan's own resources to energize entrepreneurial activities in Taiwan and stimulate economic growth.

PayMate: PayMate helps large Enterprises and SMEs transition from traditionally slow and costly forms of payments like cash and checks to real-time and efficient digital payments.  PayMate provides business customers the ability to automate and seamlessly manage vendor payments (AP), customer payments (AR), invoicing, and cash flow.  In addition, businesses can easily apply for working capital financing at competitive rates.  Multiple forms of electronic payment channels are supported including cards, net-banking, ACH, NEFT, RTGS, and IMPS.  All services are delivered via its proprietary cloud based, payments platform and can be accessed on any web enabled desktop or mobile device.  Processing of high volume transactions, payment settlement, mitigating risk, and security are core elements of the proprietary platform.  PayMate is a PCI-DSS compliant and adheres to the highest standards and industry best practices for compliance, security, and risk.  PayMate is a key player in the travel industry in India with over 13,000 registered agents and processing relationships with key airline and rental car companies.  It's banking partners include State Bank of India, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, Corporation Bank, Kotak Bank, Syndicate Bank, South Indian Bank, Dena Bank, ABN Amro ABN Amro.

Alibaba Group: Alibaba Group Holding Limited () is a Chinese e-commerce company that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals.  It also provides electronic payment services, a shopping search engine and data-centric cloud computing services.  The group began in 1999 when Jack Ma founded the website Alibaba.com, a business-to-business portal to connect Chinese manufacturers with overseas buyers.  In 2012, two of Alibaba's portals handled 1.1 trillion yuan ($170 billion) in sales.  Suppliers from other countries are supported (with more stringent checks than for Chinese companies), but the company primarily operates in the People's Republic of China (PRC).  At closing time on the date of its initial public offering (IPO), 19 September 2014, Alibaba's market value was US$231 billion.  However, the stock has traded down and market cap was about $212 billion at the end of December 2015.

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Answer: 13,000