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Qiroko Founders
Funding · D2C · 30 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Qiroko Raises ₹1.5 Crore After Bootstrapping to a ₹6 Crore Run Rate on Budget Jewellery

The Bengaluru brand sells nose studs, rings and necklaces for a few hundred rupees through Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra and Blinkit. The money goes into watches, bags and the harder job of becoming a name shoppers ask for.
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ISLAND Beauty Founders
Funding · D2C · 29 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Shirley Setia's ISLAND Beauty Raises ₹2.58 Crore to Adapt K-Beauty for Indian Skin

The singer co-founded the brand with a Korean partner and two operators. It sources ingredients from Korea, formulates in India and leads with skin-barrier care. Attention is easy for her; repeat buyers are the test.
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Rotoris Founders
Funding · D2C · 27 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Rotoris Raises ₹70 Crore With Nearly 1 Lakh People Registered for About 2,000 Watches

The Indian watch brand sells limited, numbered runs through an invitation-only Registry. Scarcity built its first year. Venture growth now asks for more of everything a luxury brand rations.
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Circle founders
Funding · D2C · 14 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Circle Raises ₹25 Crore to Take the Risk Out of Buying Second-Hand From Strangers

Classifieds connect buyer and seller and leave the rest to them. Circle verifies the item, holds the payment and moves the goods, which is safer for users and far more expensive to run.
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Wudhomes Founders
Funding · D2C · 13 Oct 2026 · 5 min

wudhomes Raises ₹2.5 Crore to Own Every Step From Inspiration to a Custom Sofa

The Bengaluru startup makes custom sofas in its own factory and sells them through a store, home visits and visualisation software. It is a heavy model for ₹2.5 crore, in a category that has humbled bigger rivals.
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Boldfit Founders
Funding · D2C · 12 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Boldfit Raises ₹400 Crore to Take a Profitable Online Brand Into Stores and Factories

It earned ₹35 crore on ₹304 crore of revenue in FY25 selling fitness gear online. The new money goes into retail, manufacturing and acquisitions, the capital-heavy parts of a sports brand.
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Funding · D2C · 10 Oct 2026 · 4 min

DailyObjects Raised ₹332 Crore, And Some Of It Went Straight Out Again

Part of the money buys out an early backer at eighteen times. The rest funds a move from 350 shelves to 150 of its own leases.
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The Dough Therapy Founder
Funding · D2C · 8 Oct 2026 · 5 min

The Dough Therapy Raises ₹5.25 Crore to Double Its Vegetarian Pizza Chain and Take It Beyond Mumbai

Ten Mumbai outlets become the base for twenty within a year. A quarter of the money goes into supply chain and central operations, because consistency is where pizza chains break as they grow.
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Zinara Founders
Funding · D2C · 8 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Zinara Raises ₹3.6 Crore to Put Real Lab-Grown Diamonds on Gold-Plated Silver

The stones are certified lab-grown diamonds; the metal is 18K gold vermeil, sterling silver under a gold layer. That is how a diamond ring reaches ₹5,000, and what a lifetime warranty has to cover.
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Alive Founder
Funding · D2C · 28 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Alive App Raises $1M After Bengaluru Turned Its First Profitable Quarter

Bengaluru turned its first profitable quarter, which means the oldest city is now funding the newest. The harder problem is getting people to come back.
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Amaani Founder
D2C · Funding · 28 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Amaani Has Raised $5 Million For Its Arab-Ingredient Beauty Brand AÏZA

The brand launched in December 2024, so the ninefold growth is measured against a first half-year. What it does track is the move onto shelves it does not pay for.
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Betterhood Founders
D2C · Healthcare · 24 Sept 2026 · 4 min

betterhood Has Raised ₹11.5 Crore For Preventive Pain Care, Led By Sauce

The money funds two different businesses at once: quick commerce shelves and a community of 7,000 physiotherapists. Only one of them is defensible.
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ONYA Founders
Funding · D2C · 24 Sept 2026 · 7 min

ONYA Raises ₹12.5 Crore Having Doubled Its Stores and Kept the Economics Intact

Eight stores and ₹3.5 crore a month, up from four and ₹2 crore ten months ago. Revenue per store slipped slightly, which is what healthy retail expansion looks like.
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Indian Walker Founder
Funding · D2C · 23 Sept 2026 · 7 min

Indian Walker Raises at ₹20 Crore for Bags Built on a Rapido Rider's Commute

The round size is undisclosed and most of it goes into stock. Bags are a forgiving category for that, because a backpack has no sizes and does not go out of season.
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Protein Pantry Founders
Funding · D2C · 22 Sept 2026 · 7 min

Protein Pantry Raises ₹9 Crore to Build the Factory That Makes Chaap Without Maida

Factories turned down the recipes, so the founders built their own. The funding goes into that plant, making soya chaap without the refined flour most brands bulk it out with.
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MoroMaa Founder with Aviral Bhatnagar AJVC
Funding · D2C · 18 Sept 2026 · 6 min

MoroMaa Raises ₹1.5 Crore for 9%, the Same Terms ajvc Offered Two Days Ago

Three months after launch, and on exactly the terms ajvc gave Slayd two days ago. The fund appears to run a fixed price rather than negotiate one.
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Kiddo Founder
Funding · D2C · 17 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Kiddo Raises ₹12.5 Crore on the Best Demand Signal in Retail, a Baby's Age

Its rivals Peeko and OZi have each raised roughly seven times as much. What Kiddo has is a demand signal that no grocery platform can match.
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Ecosys Founders
Funding · D2C · 17 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Ecosys Raises ₹5 Crore, More Than It Raised in Its First Nine Years Combined

Nine years after founding, Ecosys has raised ₹7.94 crore in total. Rivals that arrived later have raised up to twelve times as much.
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Slayd Founders
Funding · D2C · 16 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Slayd Raises ₹1.5 Crore to Sell the Clothes Its Own Data Says Will Sell

The discovery platform now manufactures its own clothes, choosing styles its data says are already selling. That makes it a competitor to the brands it aggregates.
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Firi Founders
Funding · D2C · 16 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Firi Raises $3M on a Bet That 300,000 Beauty Products Is the Problem, Not the Point

The company stocks around 3,000 products out of 300,000 and aims at people who dislike shopping for beauty. Its founders tried the discovery half of this before.
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UniqYou
Funding · D2C · 14 Sept 2026 · 6 min

UniqYou Raises ₹15.8 Crore Months After Founding, and the Money Goes Into Inventory

A company founded this year has given up nearly a quarter of itself. The filings say the money goes to working capital, which in fashion means stock.
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Fit.Zone Founders
Spotlight · D2C · 11 Sept 2026 · 8 min

Fit.Zone Is Building One Fitness Membership That Works Across Bengaluru's Independent Centres

Three fitness operators built a shared membership for independent centres in Bengaluru, starting with their own. No outside capital, and no dates on the next city.
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Swish Founders
Funding · D2C · 10 Sept 2026 · 7 min

Swish Raises $24M for 10-Minute Food, a Category Swiggy and Zepto Backed Away From

Swiggy, Zepto and Blinkit have all pulled back from ultra-fast food. Swish now does a million orders a month in the category they found too hard.
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Theatre Founders
Funding · D2C · 10 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Theater Raises ₹75 Crore at ₹410 Crore, With ₹56 Crore of It in the Filings

Filings account for ₹56.25 crore of the announced figure. The founders still hold about 65% of a five-year-old company, which says more than the 4.5x step-up does.
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Sorry Sugar Founders
Funding · D2C · 8 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Sorry Sugar Raises $1M for Zero-Sugar Coffee, Months After It Started Selling

The brand did not exist in April and claims ₹1 crore in its first month. That is a venture studio's playbook rather than a standing start.
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Iztri Founders
Funding · D2C · 8 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Iztri Raises ₹10 Crore to Organise Ironing, India's Cheapest Repeat Purchase

Ironing costs about ten rupees a garment. Every rupee of hub rent, app and payroll has to spread across that, which is why the hub sits inside the building.
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DaMENSCH Founders
Funding · D2C · 7 Sept 2026 · 5 min

DaMENSCH Raises ₹17.4 Crore at a Flat Valuation That Is Not Flat in Dollars

The second consecutive round without an uplift. A91 and Tancom Electronics paid different prices per share, and in dollar terms the valuation has fallen.
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Lickicious Founders
Funding · D2C · 7 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Lickicious Raises ₹19 Crore and Puts It Into a Factory, Which Is How Pet Food Is Won

Filings show under ₹10 crore of revenue for the year to March 2025. The company is targeting ₹100 crore and building its own factory to get there.
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Mokobara Founders
Funding · D2C · 6 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Mokobara Raises ₹170 Crore, and Only ₹91 Crore of It Is in the Filings

The board approved ₹90.66 crore of new shares. Sauce.vc says it alone put in ₹109 crore. The gap is most likely existing shareholders selling.
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Sugar Cosmetics Founder
Funding · D2C · 4 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Sugar Cosmetics Raises ₹144 Crore at a Quarter of Peak, and Its Own Valuer Says Why

A91 Partners funded the entire round alone. A valuation report in the filing describes sustained and worsening financial deterioration across two years.
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Cradlewise Founders
Funding · D2C · 4 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Cradlewise Raises $12M Building $1,799 Cribs in Pune and Selling Them in America

Its last round was nearly five years ago. The smart crib competes with SNOO in the US, where its rival holds an FDA authorisation Cradlewise does not.
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Comet Founders
Funding · D2C · 2 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Comet Is Raising ₹99 Crore at 3.2X, About ₹50 Crore Less Than It Went Looking For

Verlinvest leads with ₹61.73 crore, valuing the sneaker brand at about ₹535 crore. In March, Comet was reported to be seeking ₹140-150 crore.
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Atorie Founders
Funding · D2C · 28 Aug 2026 · 7 min

Atorie Raises $9.5 Million Seed Led by a16z speedrun to Sell Luxury Goods Direct From Manufacturers

The AI-powered marketplace sells luxury-grade goods direct from the factories that make them, undercutting brand prices. Its valuation was not disclosed and its headline growth figure is a projection.
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Cüraa Founders
Funding · D2C · 26 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Cüraa Raises ₹40 Crore in Series A Led by 3one4 Capital to Expand Indian Kitchen Appliance Range

The creator-led kitchen brand co-founded by chef Sanjyot Keer will use the round to expand its appliance range and supply chain. Its valuation and revenue were not disclosed.
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Scoobys Club Founders
Funding · D2C · 26 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Scooby's Club Raises $250K in Pre-Seed Round Led by TDV Partners to Expand Dog Care Network in Bengaluru

The dog care startup will use the pre-seed round to open two new Bengaluru properties and train canine coaches. No valuation was disclosed, and the company is about a year old.
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Asaya Founders
Funding · D2C · 24 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Asaya Raises ₹88 Crore From RPSG Capital and Others at ₹400 Crore Valuation to Expand Skincare Range

The skincare brand raised ₹88 crore at a ₹400 crore valuation, nearly tripling its mark in under a year. The round mixed primary capital with a secondary exit for some early angels.
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Bruno Milano Founders
Funding · D2C · 21 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Bruno Milano Raises ₹7.5 Crore in Round Led by Sauce VC to Expand Affordable D2C Watch Brand

The Noida-based watch brand will use the round to expand across India and grow its collections on ecommerce and quick commerce. Its valuation and revenue were not disclosed.
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Zaydn Founders
Funding · D2C · 20 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Zaydn Raises $681K in Seed Round Led by Inflection Point Ventures to Scale Sneaker Production

The homegrown sneaker brand will use the round to scale inventory and production and expand across D2C and marketplaces. Its valuation and the round's terms were not disclosed.
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Peeko Founders
Funding · D2C · 20 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Peeko Raises ₹67.4 Crore in Series A Led by Chiratae Ventures to Expand Babycare Quick Commerce Network

The babycare quick commerce platform will use the round to expand its Bengaluru dark stores and build a wider parenting proposition. Its valuation and the round's terms were not disclosed.
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DeHaat Honest Farms Founder
Funding · D2C · 17 Aug 2026 · 5 min

DeHaat Honest Farms Raises ₹35 Crore in Pre-Series A Round Led by OTP Ventures

DeHaat's pesticide-free consumer brand has raised ₹35 crore led by OTP Ventures. The parent has $221 million behind it and chose outside capital anyway.
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