Wildermart, a Bengaluru-based healthy and sustainable grocery store startup, has raised $320,000 seed funding round from angel investors including 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.
The startup said that funds will use to accelerate customer acquisition and retention, build brand salience, and hire the right talent.
Founded in 2021 by Shweta Thakur and Swaroop Mohan, Wildermart is a healthy and sustainable online grocery store that offers over 1500+ products across 30+ categories in groceries.
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.”
“Wildermart, in its own way, gives you an experience of that slow living without you having to put in any more effort than you do for your current fast life. And there’s a market for this everywhere! Wildermart has a national & global vision. This round of funding is going to help us setup our Bangalore foundation very strongly. This will give us a model which will then take to pan India in the next few years. We are also contemplating expanding to international geographies in a short while. This is a solution that the whole world needs right now”, Swaroop Mohan, Co-founder, Wildermart said.
Sairee Chahal, Founder, Sheroes said, “Wildermart is the kind of company building the world I want to live in. Sustainable. Kind. Mindful. Profitable. Shweta is a committed founder leading the opportunity for conscious capitalism. Wildermart has seen the future and they are building it and I am proud of their work.”
About Wildermart :
Wildermart is a healthy and sustainable online grocery store, currently servicing Bangalore. It boasts of a complete and clean grocery basket that includes certified organic staples and fruits & vegetables sourced from local FPOs, clean label packaged foods sourced from city’s best makers, chemical-free personal and home care. All these clean products are delivered in an electric vehicle – reducing the footprint of consumption.
