Alive, the Bengaluru-based expertise tech startup, has raised Rs 6 crore in funding from Powerhouse Ventures and a bunch of angel buyers and operators.

The startup plans to make use of the contemporary capital to broaden into extra Indian cities, strengthen its expertise stack, and develop its community of expertise creators.

Based in 2023 by Vivek Kumar, a former investor and serial entrepreneur, Alive builds and distributes curated, immersive experiences utilizing its proprietary full-stack platform.

The startup designs and manages unique experiences throughout journey, meals, artwork, wellness, and tradition. These vary from sky adventures and winery brunches to pottery workshops, chef-led dinners, glamping stays, and different handcrafted actions that intention to spark emotion and connection.

Alive stated it has constructed greater than 125 unique experiences throughout 5 cities and books over a thousand experiences each month. It has partnered with The Leela Palace, Embassy Worldwide Using Faculty, Status Golfshire, and the Padukone-Dravid Centre for Sports activities Excellence to supply premium, tech enabled experiences.

The startup claims to have recorded practically 90x income progress in lower than a 12 months. Past customers, Alive can also be constructing an ecosystem for India’s rising creator economic system. Cooks, artists, and impartial hosts use its platform to design and launch experiences, with many incomes as much as Rs 5 lakh per thirty days.

Its expertise helps creator onboarding, content material administration, and automatic discovery, serving to small companies and artistic professionals construct sustainable revenue. Alive’s consumer base is pushed largely by younger professionals aged 21 to 38 who’re in search of extra genuine, partaking actions of their cities.

The startup is at present reside in Bengaluru and Hyderabad and can launch in Goa subsequent. It goals to be energetic in ten main Indian cities and three to 5 vacationer locations by 2026.

Alive is concentrating on Rs 100 crore in annual recurring income by March 2027 and plans to scale to greater than 500 experiences and over one lakh paying prospects.

Vivek Kumar, Founder, Alive, stated, “Our mission at Alive is to massively improve high quality of life in Indian cities. We’re doing it by way of hundreds of latest and distinctive experiences produced with our tech-first, extremely scalable method. With Alive, we’re creating the life-style layer India by no means had and one which makes discovery, pleasure, and connection a part of on a regular basis life. India’s expertise economic system is the place e-commerce was a decade in the past, with stuffed with untapped potential. We’re not simply creating experiences, we’re shaping a cultural shift in how individuals reside, have fun, and join.”

Kshitij Golwalkar, Basic Accomplice, Powerhouse Ventures, stated, “We see Alive as a category-defining firm that’s mixing expertise, tradition, and life-style to rework how Indians expertise life. As disposable incomes rise and customers search which means over materialism, Alive is completely positioned to guide India’s subsequent multibillion-dollar motion, which is the expertise economic system.”