Founder · ONYA

Gaurav Choudhary

Co-founder & COO of ONYA, a jewellery company based in Bengaluru.

Co-founder · COOBengaluruJewellery
Founded
2024
Bengaluru, India
Raised to date
$1.9M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
Pre-Series A
$1.3M · September 2026

About

Gaurav Choudhary is Co-founder & COO of ONYA, a jewellery company based in Bengaluru, founded in 2024. ONYA's most recent disclosed round was a funding round of $1.3M in September 2026.

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Company

Est. 2024
ONYA
Jewellery · Bengaluru · Active

ONYA, short for On You, is a Bengaluru lab-grown diamond jewellery brand founded in 2024 by Himani Yadav, who spent over eight years in product and growth roles at Ola, InMobi and MyGate, and Gaurav Choudhary, formerly director of products at xto10x. The brand began from Yadav's own experience of finding the engagement ring she wanted beyond reach. It sells IGI-certified lab-grown diamonds set in BIS hallmarked gold, priced at roughly a fifth of comparable natural stones and backed by a lifetime exchange and buyback promise, across engagement rings, everyday rings, earrings, bracelets and pend

Funding
September 2026Pre-Series A$1.3MDivisa Family Office (lead), Zeropearl VC
November 2025Pre-seed$0.58MZeropearl VC (lead), Vijay Arisetty, Abhishek Kumar, Shreyans Daga, Rohit Jindal, Amal Mishra, Alkendra Pratap Singh
Company profile →2 rounds on record

Journey with ONYA

3 milestones
  1. 2024Founded

    Founded in Bengaluru by Himani Yadav, after she found the engagement ring she wanted was beyond reach and bought a lab-grown diamond before the category was mainstream. Yadav had spent over eight years in product and growth roles at Ola, InMobi and MyGate.

  2. Nov 2025Funding

    Raises ₹5.5 crore in a pre-seed led by Zeropearl VC with MyGate's founders and UrbanVault founder Amal Mishra participating, having reached four profitable high-street stores in Bengaluru and ₹2 crore of monthly revenue within 11 months. Gaurav Choudhary, former director of products at xto10x, joins as co-founder.

  3. Sep 2026Funding

    Raises ₹12.5 crore in a pre-Series A led by Divisa Family Office, having doubled to eight stores across Bengaluru, Pune and Hyderabad and ₹3.5 crore of monthly revenue, and plans expansion through both owned stores and franchises.

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Coverage

1 story
Funding · 24 Sept 2026 · 7 min read
ONYA Raises ₹12.5 Crore Having Doubled Its Stores and Kept the Economics Intact