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With ₹10,000 and a home recipe, how two Bengal teens turned Chhath Puja’s thekua into a ₹1 crore businessTwo teenagers in Bengal transformed a traditional devotional snack, thekua, into a thriving ₹1 crore business. Experiencing poor quality fr...
Quick commerce reshapes festive shopping with idols, sweets, puja essentialsQuick-commerce platforms like Blinkit and Zepto are rapidly dominating festival puja essential sales, with the "spiritual commerce" segment...
AI becomes spiritual guide for customers on devotional appsSpiritual and devotional platforms like AppsForBharat, Utsav and Bhagva, along with astrology startup Vaya, are increasingly turning to art...
AppsForBharat raises $20 million in round led by Susquehanna Asia Venture CapitalNandan Nilekani’s Fundamentum, Elevation Capital and Peak XV Partner also participated in the funding for the parent company of the devotio...
Spiritual and devotion platform Utsav raises Rs 6.35 crore in round led by Equanimity InvestmentsExisting investor India Quotient participated in the funding round. The funds will be used to expand operations domestically and globally, ...
Boom time for spiritual apps: Diwali set for surge in user activityOnline devotional platforms see business booming this month amid burgeoning demand for new offerings launched during Navratri.
Spiritual apps get blessed with more users, investors post CovidPost-pandemic spiritual and astrology apps have seen a significant resurgence, benefiting from increased online engagement and a growing in...
Ram Mandir: Ayodhya puts spiritual apps on a growth curveAhead of the Ram Mandir consecration in Ayodhya, religious and spiritual apps such as Vama, DevDham, UtsavApp, SriMandir are witnessing a m...
Virtual religious services startup Vama raises $500,000 in funding led by Lisa Gokongwei-ChengFounded in 2020 by Acharya Dev, Himanshu Semwal, and Jain, Vama is a one-stop virtual platform that provides easy access to e-pujas, e-dars...
Virtual spiritual platform Vama raises $750,000 in fundingThe fresh capital will be used to bolster product development, introduce new service verticals, and acquire new talent. With the latest rou...
Religious pilgrimage site, Make My Pilgrimage, looking to raise fundsMMP will be competing with the likes of online puja-booking startup Harivara founded by Arun Kumar Somaskandan.
Go digital on Ganesh Chaturthi: Book idol, priest onlineThe two will be hand-delivered and the pujari will do immersion too.
Pujas to pilgrimages -- these startups are disrupting spiritualitySaumyaa Vardhan, who worked as a mergers and acquisitions expert in London for seven years, returned to India for a funeral and realized ho...
Vedic Brahman targets break even by November"We are reaching out to high networth individuals in metros and tier 2 cities. Soon we will also start e-commerce vertical which will help ...
Festive rush divine for Puja startups like Online Prasad, MuhurtMazaThe kind of demand during the two-months-long festive season hints that the spiritual-tech entrepreneurs might have well landed on safe pas...
Muhurtmaza raises funding from US based HNI investorMuhurtmaza currently operates in Pune, Bengaluru and Hyderabad among a few other cities, and will focus on increasing consumer awareness an...
New entrepreneurs should not worry about regulations: IndustryStartups across the country lauded the efforts to promote the entrepreneurial spirit in the country and said action plan unveiled today ref...
How online portals are helping priests broaden client base, boost incomeIf there are startups that bring home cabs, and do grocery shopping, wesbites that provide pandits on demand couldn’t have been far behind.
Entrepreneur duo, Ganesh & Meena, picks 35% in startup that delivers online ‘prasad’An investment arm of entrepreneurs, K Ganesh and Meena Ganesh, is backing an startup that delivers 'prasad' and religious merchandise from ...
- Converting biodegradable waste to online puja: Temple towns providing startups like NextGen Technology with business opportunities
Hordes of young entrepreneurs are finding that places of worship present opportunities for those with innovative business ideas.