Dwell entertainment discovery and ticketing platform thumpN has raised over $3.75 million in pre-seed funding led by music icons Arijit Singh, Sunidhi Chauhan, and Badshah, alongside Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Paytm CFO Madhur Deora, Capitalmind co-founder Shray Chandra, and Hyperlink Model Options founder VG Jairam.

thumpN is an AI-based discovery and ticketing platform that helps customers discover reside experiences based mostly on their pursuits and preferences. The platform covers a variety of classes, together with live shows, comedy, nightlife, sports activities, festivals, and regional occasions.

“This began from a easy frustration,” stated Varun Khare, CEO of thumpN.

“Discovery right now is fragmented throughout social feeds, algorithms, WhatsApp teams, and phrase of mouth. The explosion of India’s reside leisure market, mixed with the shift towards conversational and AI-native client behaviour, has created a possibility to rethink discovery from the bottom up. We’re constructing thumpN to really feel pure,” Khare added.

On the centre of the platform is Shadow, thumpN’s conversational AI agent, which permits customers to find reside experiences via natural-language interactions fairly than conventional search. Shadow interprets consumer intent, maintains conversational context, and processes occasion info from a number of sources.

The platform additionally incorporates inputs from a community of contributing curators, together with artists, promoters, venue insiders, and style specialists throughout totally different cities. These inputs present further context to Shadow’s suggestions, combining AI-based evaluation with human data of native occasions and cultural traits.

As followers work together with Shadow, it constantly refines suggestions based mostly on evolving preferences, habits, and expertise patterns. The platform additionally simplifies life for organisers, artists, venues, and promoters via AI-native onboarding and partner-first infrastructure, giving them sharper insights into their audiences and stronger instruments to plan, market, and scale their occasions.