Marmalade has raised ₹6 crore from individual backers including Amrut Distilleries' COO for Brightside Craft Whiskey, a smoother whiskey aimed at younger drinkers. Its ₹5 crore ARR is a run rate, which works out at roughly ₹42 lakh of sales in September.
CHINI KUM has closed its pre-seed at ₹1.64 crore, entirely from individual angels, for a zero-sugar prebiotic drink. It is competing in the category PepsiCo validated by paying $1.95 billion for Poppi.
Three biryani shops in Uttar Pradesh are running at an annual rate of about ₹25 crore between them. That implies roughly ₹8.3 crore per outlet, or about ₹69 lakh a month each, and it is the number behind this raise. Biryani Bees has raised $1 million from the Vivek