Celebrity-fan engagement platform GoNuts scores seed round

Superstar fan commitment stage GoNuts has brought Rs 3.5 crore up in its seed round drove by Sweta Rau (White Ventures), Archana Priyadarshini (Unicorn India Ventures). 9Unicorns, AngelList, Lets Venture, Pankaj Chaddah, fellow benefactor of Mindhouse and Zomato, Ramakant Sharma, prime supporter of LivSpace and others.

With the new capital, GoNuts focuses to locally available 5,000 influencers. As of now, it has 700 big names on the stage across classifications films, TV, sports and music. Established by Vinamra Pandiya and Mayank Gupta and Joji George, GoNuts lets clients get customized welcome from VIPs.

Some prominent big names on the stage incorporate Shankar Mahadevan, Kailash Kher, Sukhbir, Hariharan, and Jonty Rhodes. During a prior communication with Entrackr, Pandiya had laid out that GoNut could be utilized by famous people to dispatch their own customized fan associate administrations.

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Other than adaptation, the stage empowers helpful characters to set up coordinated and more profound associations with their fan base. As per Pandiya, the organization was bootstrapped and productive in its initial a half year of activities. The organization brings in cash through commissions or stage expense.

GoNuts has collaborated with CRED, BulBul TV, BookMyShow and a few others.

While US-based Cameo has supported the two-sided commercial center that associates superstars and fans internationally, the idea is new to India. Presently, there are in excess of twelve new companies working in the space including Unlu, Truefan, Wysh and Tring.

Truefan is the most all around financed in the space, trailed by Wysh, Tring and others. Truefan had raised $4.3 million from Mayfield, Saama Capital and others though Tring has been upheld by a few first rate people including Gaurav Munjal, Kalyan Krishnamurthy and others. Unlu likewise raised a seed round from Mumbai Angels.

Accel and Shunwei-sponsored social trade startup Simsim likewise entered space with Rubaru.