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BUSINESS·2 min read·Nov 10, 2020

Celebrity fan engagement startup Gonuts brings Rs 3.5 Cr up in seed round 

Mumbai-based compelling superstar business stage Gonuts has brought Rs 3.5 crore up in seed subsidizing drove by marquee speculators Sweta Rau and Archana Priyadarshini. 9Unicorns, AngelList, Lets Venture, Pankaj Chaddah (Co-author, Mindhouse and Zomato), Ramakant Sharma (Co-originator, LivSpace), I

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Mumbai-based compelling superstar business stage Gonuts has brought Rs 3.5 crore up in seed subsidizing drove by marquee speculators Sweta Rau and Archana Priyadarshini.

9Unicorns, AngelList, Lets Venture, Pankaj Chaddah (Co-author, Mindhouse and Zomato), Ramakant Sharma (Co-originator, LivSpace), IIM Indore Alumni Fund, Harshal Morde from Morde Foods Pvt Ltd, and other marquee holy messengers and organizers additionally took an interest in this round.

“We feel that interests in the correct group, innovation, and different switches of development is significant and will be our prompt need. We expect to on-board 5,000+ of the most compelling and helpful famous people by the following money related year and be the unicorn out of India in this class for the remainder of the world,” said Vinamra Pandiya, Founder, Gonuts.

Established by sequential business people Vinamra Pandiya and Mayank Gupta, alongside media and amusement veteran Joji George in March 2020, Gonuts intends to overcome any issues among VIPs and their huge number of fans, and democratize ability to the Indian and ostracize Indian diaspora.

“Encounters are a lot more significant than everything else. Gonuts is making it simple for fans and influencers/famous people to associate in a more profound manner through customized recordings, in any case,” added Sweta Rau, blessed messenger and adventure financial specialist, White Ventures.

Gonuts cases to have an arrangement of more than 700 of the main VIPs, the majority of them restrictive on Gonuts, across classes like movies, TV, sports, and music, among others accessible on its foundation. This gives clients an assorted scope of superstars to look over to pass on customized messages to their friends and family, the startup said.

As indicated by Dr Apoorva Ranjan Sharma, MD and Co-author, 9Unicorns, “Indians are very enthusiastic about the VIPs that they follow. The group at GoNuts is making a disturbance in this field by conveying curated VIP encounters. We are certain about its capability to accomplish fast scale.”

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