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BUSINESS·2 min read·May 14, 2026

Content stage Trell investigates online business with Bharat Dukaan

After the boycott of TikTok and other China-connected applications, Sequoia Capital India’s Surge-sponsored Trell had discovered another track: short video amusement space. Be that as it may, the organization appears to have lost force as its downloads numbers haven’t been developing. As

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After the boycott of TikTok and other China-connected applications, Sequoia Capital India’s Surge-sponsored Trell had discovered another track: short video amusement space. Be that as it may, the organization appears to have lost force as its downloads numbers haven’t been developing. As per Sensor Tower information, it has recorded under 8 lakh downloads in the previous three months.

With deteriorating numbers for its short video offering, Trell is currently discovering fresher roads to bring in cash. The organization as of late dispatched another business stage called Bharat Dukaan for magnificence items.

As of now, Bharat Dukaan offers magnificence items and toiletries like lipstick, oil, antiperspirants, toothpaste among others across two dozen brands. As indicated by Entrackr sources, the organization is additionally promoting recorded items to little dealers in select pieces of North India. The stage as of now fills in as both a B2B and a B2C stage, added sources.

“The thought behind Bharat Dukaan is to test waters in the B2B space and influence influencers on Trell to drive exchanges in the B2C portion,” said one of the sources on state of obscurity. “The new business is being going by Trell’s prime supporter Bimal Karthik Rebba.”

Entrackr’s questions shipped off Trell didn’t get any prompt reaction.

Sources call attention to that Trell is basically investigating adaptation by blending substance and business. It’s significant that Trell, which had begun as a short video content revelation stage for explorers, joined the free for all of turning into the following TikTok in June 2019. Be that as it may, it has been thinking that its extreme to contend with profound took rivals in the short video space.

Trell scarcely has 268,000 downloads in the previous 30 days, Sensor Tower information shows. Aside from Trell, Mitron and Chingari are additionally battling with 70,000 and 300,000 downloads in the previous month, individually. The main three players MX TakaTak, ShareChat’s Moj and Dailyhunt’s Josh have dwarfed the more modest parts as far as getting new clients with a tremendous edge.

MX Player’s short video application MX TakaTak was the most downloaded application in India in February with 36.5 million introduces followed by Moj which recorded 23.5 million downloads. Josh was the third most downloaded short video application during the time frame with 17.5 million introduces.

Established by Pulkit Agarwal, Prashant Sachan, Arun Lodhi, and Rebba in 2016, Trell permits clients to make 3 brief unique substance recordings in their local dialects in classifications including excellence, wellbeing, wellness and travel.

Up until this point, the organization has raised more than $15 million from Surge, KTBN Ventures and Samsung Venture among a couple of others. The dispatch of Bharat Dukaan has all the earmarks of being an all around thought choice as Trell has unmistakably been battling in securing new clients and there isn’t anything incorrectly in investigating new roads.

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