[Funding alert] SpiritualTech startup Rgyan raises $200K in Seed funding

Gurgaon-based Rgyan, a vernacular spiritual social tech startup has raised  $200K in Seed funding from angel investors.

The startup plans to use the funds to create a digital community of spiritual aspirants and help them with their various needs in taking their spiritual journey online.

The new capital will be used primarily for product development and team expansion (Engineering, Products, Materials and Media). Focusing on people’s needs it seeks to build a range of products with advanced features, to provide a better online experience to the digital spiritual community.

The Gurgaon-based Rgyan was founded in 2021 by Umesh Khatri and Devendar Agarwal, It is a spiritual social tech startup that aims to build a single online platform for spiritual, intellectual and socially connected souls thus creating a complete "spiritual social network".

It is an online spiritual social community platform of SoulGuide (SoulGuide Digital Pvt Ltd) that allows users to explore and share aggregated content across various spiritual categories such as Bhakti, Sacred Places, Wellbeing, Art/Society, Mythology and more.

“We are contributing our efforts to digitise the offline spiritual space which is ancient old, remains unorganized, scattered and unserved. By building tech enabled products that will allow users to explore, connect, share and promote spiritual knowledge, we look forward to building a complete digital ecosystem to assist billions of users fulfil their different spiritual, devotional & wellbeing needs”, said, Umesh Khatri, Co-Founder and CEO, Rgyan.

The company said that it now hopes to grow into a full-fledged spiritual social networking portal that allows users to create their own profiles, share their spiritual content, consume trending media posts, connect with community users and access a wide range of spiritual articles, video library and other offerings.

Rgyan, a product of SoulGuide (SoulGuide Digital Pvt Ltd) is an online spiritual social community platform which lets users explore and share assimilated curated content in various spiritual categories like devotion, holy places, wellbeing, art/society, mythologies and others.

Rgyan which was started in 2018 just as a blogging/classified platform has now more than 3000+ articles listed through its website with 3-4M annual active users, now look forward to evolve as a complete spiritual social networking portal which will let users create their profile, share their spiritual content, consume trending media posts, connect with community users and get access to a wide range of spiritual articles, video library and other offerings.

About Rgyan

Founded in 2021, by Umesh Khatri and Devendar Agarwal, SoulGuide(SoulGuide Digital Pvt Ltd) is tech company focussed on building products to fulfil spiritual, devotional and wellbeing needs of billions of users in India and worldwide. The company’s first product Rgyan which is operating since 2018 as a content platform was listed as one of the few Indian and Global online platforms in the spiritual content segment(as per the report published in EMR Market Research, 2020).