Indian gaming expertise startup ARC has raised Rs 10.5 crore in a pre-seed funding spherical led by Chimera VC and MIXI International Investments, with Dhruv Vohra, Director at Meta APAC, additionally collaborating within the spherical in his private capability.

ARC stated the funding will likely be used to speed up the event and commercialisation of ARC X1, its moveable gaming system, together with {hardware} engineering, product validation and preparations for manufacturing and supply-chain operations.

The startup additionally plans to take a position additional in OWL OS, its proprietary gaming working system, and its wider software program platform. The funding can even assist crew growth, go-to-market actions and partnerships throughout gaming, cloud, content material and expertise.

Based by Jobin Joseph and Kaustubh Okay. Jadhav, ARC is constructing a platform combining {hardware}, software program and gaming experiences.

Its first product, ARC X1, is designed to make devoted moveable gaming extra accessible to Indian players.

The machine relies on ARM structure, makes use of Qualcomm expertise and runs OWL OS. ARC stated it helps native Android video games, PC video games by means of the corporate’s software program stack, and cloud gaming.

Joseph stated the funding will assist ARC deepen its expertise, speed up product improvement and transfer the corporate nearer to launching ARC X1.

Jadhav stated “ARC was based on a easy perception entry shouldn’t decide how deeply somebody will get to expertise gaming.”

He added that the investment will assist the corporate convey ARC X1 to players at scale.

ARC is concentrating on India’s massive mobile-first gaming market, the place the startup sees comparatively low penetration of devoted gaming {hardware} as a possibility for moveable gaming units.

The startup claims greater than 50,000 folks have joined the ARC X1 waitlist forward of its industrial launch.

ARC has additionally collaborated with Qualcomm Applied sciences in the course of the product’s improvement and is involving players in early testing and suggestions programmes because it refines the {hardware} and software program earlier than launch.

Krish Anurag of Chimera VC stated the funding agency seems to be for firms that may “grow to be infrastructure for the following chapter of a class”, including that ARC fitted that funding thesis.

Tomoharu Urabe of MIXI International Investments stated India had a big and passionate gaming neighborhood and that ARC X1 may make handheld gaming extra accessible.

The worldwide moveable gaming console market was valued at about $3.89 billion in 2025, in response to Grand View Analysis, which forecasts compound annual development of 9.7% between 2026 and 2033.