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Happilo
ABOUT US
Happilo International, a ” Gourmet Snacking” Brand offers Tasty Flavourful, naturally Healthy contemporary packing in nuts, seeds, berries, snack packs, trail mixes.
It Offers:
-> Offering a wide range of gourmet products and mixes which are not easily available.
-> 30+ Product lines which include -Berries, Seeds, Nuts, Dried fruits, Exotic nuts, Trail packs and mixes, Festive packs and Snack packs.
Sector
Consumer Brand | FMCG | D2C
Website
www.happilo.com
Location
Bengaluru
Stage
Growth
Funding Closed
Happlio raises INR 100cr from A91 Partners. Venture Garage was the exclusive financial advisor to this transaction.
Read full news here
Happilo raises $25 million from Motilal Oswal PE. Partnering with MOPE will help accelerate our growth plans and significantly scale the business from current levels,” Said Vikas Nahar -Founder Happilo
Read full news here
team
FOUNDER & MARKETING HEAD: He graduated in the field of computers Bangalore, then started working for his family business under the name of Jain Enterprises. He worked there in Imports and Exports, where he successfully handled the foreign trade portfolio of Jain Enterprises (into spices and nuts trading and cultivation), enabling good networks in SE Asian countries as well. In 2008- 2010.He has completed his Masters from SCMHRD from Symbiosis University – Pune with a major in Marketing. In 2011 he co-founded Satvikk retail, a specialty foods retailer and scaled it to 30+ stores in a mix of franchise + owned model.
BUSINESS HEAD- SOUTH: Over 13 years experience in marketing in FMCG and Non FMGC products all over all parts of Bangalore having own registered company in Indranagar Bangalore previously. He joined Happilo in Jan 2017. Currently handles entire modern & general trade business of Happilo across Southern region, leading a team of 15 promoters and 5 BDMs.
BUSINESS HEAD- EAST: Completed B.Com from Calcutta University in the year 2001.Has eight years experience in Household pesticide industries and two years experience in cosmetic industries and also five years experience in food and olive oil industries. Prior to Happilo he had promoted Ycook in the East Zone.
IN COVERS
Shark Tank India Judge
Vikas D. Nahar, the newest ‘guest shark’ on Shark Tank India, to choose emerging entrepreneurs
India Today
Shark Tank India is all set to air a special digital-only episode titled Gateway to Shark Tank India 2 which will give a chance to aspiring entrepreneurs to present their business ideas to celebrity entrepreneurs.
Funding Round of $25 mil
Happilo raised $25mil from Motilal Oswal PE
Economic Times
The company – which sells dry fruits, trail mixes, nut protein bars and muesli – will use the funds to grow its D2C channel and distribution network, it said in a statement
Funding Round of $13 mil
Happilo raised $13mil from A91 partners.
Venture Garage
Venture Garage was the financial advisor for this round
Title Sponsor- Rajasthan Royals
Happilo joins the Royals Family as the Title Sponsor for IPL 2022
IPL 2022
Royals Sports Group-owned franchise Rajasthan Royals announced its association with Premium Dry Fruit brand Happilo as the Title Sponsor for the 15th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL)
Brand Ambassador
Happilo On-boards Celeb Couple Sid-Kiara as Brand Ambassador
Livemint
Vikas D Nahar, Founder, and CEO, Happilo, said,“We are delighted to welcome Sidharth and Kiara as ambassadors of the brand. They both love to binge on tasty food, and yet health and fitness are of the utmost priority. At Happilo, we curate and offer dry fruit-based products that cater to the snacking habits of our consumers whilst promoting health simultaneously. We are ecstatic to join hands with the couple to drive the healthy snacking revolution in India.”
Interested in Investing
Happilo Fund Raise
Venture Garage exclusive financial advisor to Happilo on 100Cr fund raise from A91 Partners
Meddelivery
~$1mn from FAAD Network, Auxano Entrepreneur Trust, Lets Venture, Kisho Capital, Venture Garage and marquee angels. Read full news here Interested in Investing
Grano69
Proost69 is our Beer brand, and we plan to disrupt the beer market in the country through our delightful beers made from recipes developed by one of the finest brewers in Europe.
Engaged in brewing high quality beers in India, especially crafted global taste, keeping the Indian consumers at the forefront; our beers are sure to acquire a cult status amongst beer lovers in the country.
>> Hand Crafted Brews by renowned master brewers
>> Domestic brew with finest quality, and affordable pricing.
>> Appealing across age groups, with an all-star marketing strategy
OUR USPs:
>> Unique, Quirky and Eye-Catching Designs targeting the modern Indian.
>> A unique and standout communication strategy.
>> An excellent rating on beer taste card – An excellent rating on beer taste card – 4.8 out of 5 as against the industry standard of a mere 3.6.
>> International taste (Spain & Belgium). Brewed by one of the Best Brewers in the World.
TEAM:
MD & Co-Founder: Ex. Global CEO for Punj Lloyd. Handled Projects worth more than 60,000 Crores.
CEO & Co-founder: Ex- IBM, senior analyst AON consulting, portfolio manager startup tunnel. Founder of FAAGIO.COM. Extensive Knowledge About the Beer Market. Background in finance and Project Management
Secret ingredient MASTER BREWER: A renowned master brewer in Netherlands. Involved in recipe tweaking of Hoegaarden, Heineken, Stella. 17+ years of brewing Exp.
Sumitendra Das
Work Experience: a senior marketer with 17.10 years of extensive exp. wherein he created a strong digital and offline presence for the brands he has worked for during this period. He has grown the brands through marketing, branding, and advertising initiatives of multiple organizations in …
Shreya Vashisth
Shreya Vashisth Co Founder & Director at Shout Out Stars https://www.linkedin.com/in/shreyavashisht/ Work Experience: With expertise in Media, Lifestyle, Broadcasting and Publishing arenas, her background includes front end experience selling and marketing to millennials. Had worked with CNBC, India Today, UNICEF, Ernst & Young, 360 Realtors …
ExpoSim hosts Largest 3D Virtual Exhibition yet on its Platform
Delhi based event-tech startup ExpoSim hosted the country’s largest 3D Virtual Exhibition on its platform with more than 140 Exhibitors. The Exhibition, organized by BNI Chhattisgarh, managed by Mahati and hosted on ExpoSim was attended by more than 3000 visitors and generated 5000+ leads for the exhibitors.
“ExpoSim is an extremely powerful yet easy to use tool that has empowered event managers lie us, venture into the Digital Events World. It has opened up a whole new world of business opportunities for us. We have already completed 6 successful events on ExpoSim and intend to do plenty more in the coming months. “
Said, Mr. Avinash Khanapur, CEO at Mahati
ExpoSim is a SaaS platform to create world’s most advanced virtual expos & conferences. It leverages Real Time 3D technology to create truly immersive life-like event experience for the visitors and enable them to network with other visitors, exhibitors, speakers & organizers in a realistic manner.
“It was really exciting to attend this virtual event. The 3D expo world makes you feel as if you are part of an actual physical exhibition. You can walk around just how you do in real and check out the booths, talk to people, exchange visiting cards and collect brochures; and all of this without getting tired.”
Said, Mr. Umesh Chandra, A business visitor at BNI Chhattisgarh Expo
Virtual Events is a USD 100 Billion market and growing at a CAGR of almost 23%. This is primarily because virtual events overcome the limitations of physical events for all the stakeholders. Virtual Events offer Global Reach to organizers & exhibitors, provides accurate data collection and is much more cost effective than the physical events. For the visitors it provides convenience of attending an event, meeting like-minded people, and also make purchases from the comfort of their homes.
The coronavirus pandemic has pushed people towards digitization and Events Industry is no different. Almost 80% of the event industry has experienced virtual events of some form or another and has helped them understand the benefits of organizing virtual events over the physical ones.
Organizing & managing a virtual event is a complicated task and takes 4-6 weeks on an average to setup & organize. Additionally, very specific technical skills are presently required to manage the different components of Virtual Events. We at ExpoSim aims to make this virtual event creation & management journey so simple that an event manager with no technical skills is able to manage the different aspects of a virtual event with ease and in little to no time.
Said, Mr. Mohit Ramani, CEO at ExpoSim
ExpoSim was launched in July 2020 and has since then hosted more than 20 virtual events on its platform and has more than 40 events lined up in the next 3 months.
Primary buyer of the ExpoSim platform is an Event Management company who licenses the software and manages the virtual event for the event organizer. Alternatively, an event organizer can also license the platform and manage the virtual event on its own.
Website: https://exposim.io
Book a Free Demo: contactus@digitalagents.in
Venture Garage is handling the fund raise mandate of ExpoSim, to invest and other queries, write to us at investments@65.2.183.56
Harpreet Seble
Harpp Seble CEO at Nail Spa India https://www.linkedin.com/in/harpreet-harpp-seble-154137/ Work Experience: Harpp has 20+ years of experience, has worked as a consultant in the IT industry for various Fortune 500 companies, including Compaq, Lucent, IBM & Exxon as well as startups like Streamline Studios Area of …