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Bengaluru,April 12, 2022: Wildermart, a Bengaluru-based healthy and sustainable grocery store start-up has raised USD 320K seed funding round from Angel Investors to accelerate customer acquisition & retention, build brand salience and hire right talent. Wildermart has successfully attracted an interesting mix of investors who are prominent names across industries. The group of angel investors includes Sairee Chahal – Founder, Sheroes, Anand Rangaswamy, EX-CEO, Latam and UK Godrej Consumer Products ltd., Sreenivasan Ramki, Gangs T Gangadhar, Sandeep Komaravelly, Anuroop Krishnan, Chetna Soni, Sunainika Singh, Aditya Krishna, Shivanandan Pare, Rohit Bhojaraj, Raj Narayan, Vikram Dani, Sid N., Abhinav Mathur, Shivram Anantharaman, Ashish Dutt and Kedar Gavane. Founded in 2021 by Shweta Thakur and Swaroop Mohan and launched by Maneka Gandhi, Wildermart has been conceived out of the founders’ passion for mindful consumption as they live by that philosophy.
Wildermart is one of its kind businesses which is built on the 3Ps of the Triple Bottom Line – People, Planet, and Profit and offers over 1500+ products across 30+ categories the products range from certified organic stapes to F&V, clean label artisanal packaged foods to chemical-free personal and home care products. It is now rapidly growing from just an online store to having an omnichannel presence in the near future.
Shweta Thakur, Founder and CEO, Wildermart said, “We feel very validated in our vision at this stage. We can’t wait to start realising it. We play a role in accelerating the journey towards conscious consumption and it would be our version of making a dent in the universe! We are feeling extremely fortunate to have got the kind of investors we have in this round. They all come with complementing industry expertise and we are certain that this partnership will strengthen our value proposition.”
