GlowRoad – one of the fastest growing social commerce startup in India. GlowRoad lets users resell products (from 100+ categories) directly from manufacturers and wholesalers with the power of social networks. We truly believe in the potential of Digital India, with our majority of users being homemakers from Tier II, III and IV cities.
The platform hosts 6mn+ resellers from 1000+ cities across India, and we are proud to empower 100000+ active women resellers in our platform.
- Raised Series A funds from Accel in July 2017
- Raised Series B funds from Accel, CDH China, Korea Investment Partners, and Vertex in April 2019
Location: India, Karnataka, Bengaluru
Employees: 201-500
Total raised: $12M
Founded date: 2017
Founders name: Nilesh Padariya; Kunal Sinha
Founders Related Locations: India, Karnataka, Bengaluru
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Vertex Ven... | vertexvent... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 09.04.2019 | Series B | $10M | - |
| - | Series A | $2M | - |
Persons 2
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Nilesh | Padariya | Co-Founder | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Kunal | Sinha | Co-Founder... | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
Mentions in press and media 17
| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 26.03.2024 | Know The Future And The History Of Online Shopping In India:... | Share Tweet Share Share Email Online shopping has indeed become popular in India, with billions of d... | techbullio... |
| 22.04.2022 | Amazon acquires Indian social commerce firm GlowRoad | AcquisitionsNewsStartups Aditya Hadi Pratama · 22 Apr 2022 · 1 min readAmazon acquires Indian social... | techinasia... |
| 21.04.2022 | Amazon acquires India’s GlowRoad in social commerce push | Amazon may be attempting to take on Shopify in the west, but in India, it is gearing up to explore s... | techcrunch... |
| 31.12.2021 | Glowroad in 4 Years by Alexander Gornyi | The post was originally published in Russian on Startup of the Day. Alexander kindly agreed to repub... | itkey.medi... |
| 02.11.2020 | Social Commerce Startup ‘GlowRoad’ Raises $7 Million From It... | GlowRoad, a social commerce startup, has raised $7 million in a fresh funding round from its existin... | thestartup... |
| 10.04.2019 | GlowRoad gets $10 mn funding from China CDH Investment, othe... | GlowRoad co-founder and CEO Kunal Sinha. GlowRoad competes with social e-commerce startups such as M... | livemint.c... |
| 10.04.2019 | China's CDH Investments leads Series B round in reseller pla... | Women-focused reseller platform GlowRoad, run by Accelerator Enterprises Pvt. Ltd, has secured $10 m... | vccircle.c... |
| 09.04.2019 | Indian social commerce startup GlowRoad raises $10M Series B | Indian social commerce startup GlowRoad announced today that it has raised a $10 million Series B. T... | techcrunch... |
| 09.04.2019 | China’s CDH Investments leads $10 Mn round in social commerc... | From nascent to the prospering stage, social commerce platforms in India has become a lucrative spac... | entrackr.c... |
| 10.12.2017 | Стартап дня: торговая платформа по агентской модели Glowroad... | Директор по стратегии и анализу Mail.Ru Group Александр Горный каждый день рассказывает о примечател... | vc.ru/floo... |
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