Nazara Technologies, through its subsidiary Nodwin Gaming, has acquired 35 percent stake in Brandscale Innovations(Wings Lifestyle) for around Rs 10 crore. Wings Lifestyle is one of the portfolio companies of Venture Garage.

By this investment Nodwin wants to expand and strengthen its retail presence while also speeding up its D2C strategy for the gaming and sports audiences in India. The company also plans to roll out a bespoke series of gaming headphones based on popular Indian gaming and esports talents and influencers.

“Categories such as Lifestyle Audio, Smart Watches and Gaming Accessories are seeing staggering online sales in the last 3 years and this market is slated to be a 25,000cr+ market in the next 5 years. Indian brands continue to gain market share through Aggressive Pricing & Marketing + Quick Product Launch. The company’s future is bright, and this investment will assist them in making a significant jump forward.”

said Vineet Sagar, Managing Partner, Venture Garage

Brandscale Innovations is a Gen-Z focussed gaming accessory, lifestyle audio, and smart watched brand. Currently Wings is existent in these 2 categories: Wireless Earbuds, Neckband Earphones. Expansion to ALL other categories is already in line for Jan’22 Launch: Over Ear Headphones, Wired Earphones, Bluetooth Speakers, Soundbars, Gaming Headphones, Gaming Mouse, Gaming Keyboard, Gamepad Controllers, Smart Watches.

“Strategic investments like these enable us to achieve our vision of creating a successful multi-dimensional gaming and esports strategy,” said Akshat Rathee, Co-founder and Managing Director, Nodwin Gaming. “This investment will hopefully fill in the gap created by the huge demand for customised earbuds and headphones among the gaming and esports community.”

“We built the company completely bootstrapped for the last 3 years and have successfully brought it to where it is today. We now feel it is the right time to get external funding and grow Wings to become a global gaming brand. Nodwin Gaming and Wings share a common vision of supporting and growing the gaming community and we couldn’t have asked for a better partner in this journey.”

said Nishit Sharma and Vijay Venkateswaran, Co-founders, Wings

Read more about Brandscale Innovations (Wings Lifestyle) here

Source: Yourstory ET BS

New Delhi, 11 March 2022: Founded by Delhi based Kush Aggarwal & Samarth Bhalwar, both of whom have been managing a healthcare institutes for the last 3+ years, Voiceoc has raised an angel round from United States based accelerator Expert Dojo & prolific angel Kishore Ganji from Astir Ventures. Voiceoc also gets shortlisted by Expert Dojo for their Startups Programme.

Voiceoc is a SAAS offering that provides customer-friendly Conversational AI on WhatsApp & Call Centre to help healthcare companies enhance bookings & provide convenience to patients by using Next-Gen AI & Sentiment Analysis modules. The modules enable healthcare companies to bring all their patient engagement services such as appointment booking, lab reports/medical  records/invoices access, patient support, medical inquiry etc. on WhatsApp using AI/ML.

Just in 1.5 years of launch, they have onboarded 18+ big paying clients from 6 countries – India, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, UAE & Indonesia.

“We are trying to bring impact in the healthcare industry of developing & industrial nations through Voiceoc. We aim to revolutionize how patients interact with healthcare companies and vice versa,” said Kush Aggarwal, Cofounder – Voiceoc.

According to Samarth Bhalwar, Cofounder – Voiceoc, moving forward the funds raised will be invested towards team building and scaling product to multiple new markets.

Brian Mac Mohan, Head Honcho at Expert Dojo said, “I highly recommend Kush and his team to any potential investors. My venture capital firm, Expert Dojo, invested in his company and we cannot speak highly enough of the professionalism of the founding team and how dedicated they are to building a company that will make us proud and provide fantastic returns. Great founder.”

Expert Dojo is an international early-stage startup accelerator. It works with pre-seed to series-A companies, providing opportunity to companies globally. Since 2018, Expert Dojo has invested in over 150 companies.           

“Well trained on vast amounts of healthcare data, Voiceoc has the capacity for end-to-end integration with backend systems, the AI models are designed in such a way that they validate incoming patient input. The pandemic has pushed them towards AI based conversations, and has paved a path for companies like Voiceoc to become the next frontier of digital transformation in healthcare,” said Vivek Kumar CEO- Venture Garage       

To know more about Voiceoc, visit- https://venturegarage.in//voiceoc/