Founder · ARC

Kaustubh K. Jadhav

Co-founder of ARC, a gaming hardware company based in Bengaluru.

Co-founderBengaluruGaming Hardware
Raised to date
$1.1M
1 round on record
Latest round
Pre-seed
$1.1M · September 2026

About

Kaustubh K. Jadhav is Co-founder of ARC, a gaming hardware company based in Bengaluru. ARC's most recent disclosed round was a funding round of $1.1M in September 2026.

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Company

ARC
Gaming Hardware · Bengaluru · Active

ARC is the consumer gaming brand of Bengaluru-based Zenalli Innovative Technologies, building the ARC X1, a handheld games console designed for India and other emerging markets. Founded by Jobin Joseph and Kaustubh K. Jadhav, it has been in development for over a year and evaluated x86 architectures before settling on ARM, powered by Qualcomm, on the reasoning that performance-per-watt rather than peak power is what makes a handheld affordable and comfortable to hold. The device runs OWL OS, a fork of the Android Open Source Project rebuilt around a controller-first interface with system-level

Funding
September 2026Pre-seed$1.1MChimera VC (co-lead), MIXI Global Investments (co-lead), Dhruv Vohra
Company profile →1 round on record

Journey with ARC

2 milestones
  1. Jul 2026Milestone

    Emerges publicly as India's first home-grown dedicated gaming handheld maker after 14 to 18 months in development, opening a two-phase public beta in which waitlist members test controls, comfort, battery life, frame rates and game compatibility.

  2. Sep 2026Milestone

    Announces a strategic partnership with Qualcomm Technologies covering the ARC X1 and a broader lineup of gaming hardware for India and emerging markets, built around performance-per-watt rather than peak power.

Also building ARC

JJJobin JosephCo-founder→

Coverage

1 story
Funding · 8 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
ARC Raises ₹10.5 Crore to Build a Console, an OS and a Supply Chain at Once