The Indian wedding industry is the 2nd largest in the world. The estimated market value of the Indian industry is $50 Bn and more than 10 Mn weddings take place in India every year. As we are in the modern tech trend weddings also have become a technology upgrade.
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Wedding Wishlist raised over INR 2 Cr funds
The first idea of technology and weddings came from matchmaking platforms such as BharatMatrimony and Shaadi.com but it just is an extension of the traditional classifieds.
The real disruption has come from the platform such as Wedding Wishlist. As the grand weddings such as Isha Ambani and Shloka Mehta the daughter and daughter-in-law of Mukesh Ambani respectively. The world was amazed by their weddings which were planned and done by the wedding platform such as Wedding Wishlist.
Wedding Wishlist
Wedding Wishlist is the Chennai based company founded in 2016 started its journey as a wedding gift registry. The founders of this company are the Kanika Subbiah, Tanvi Saraf and Sathish Subramanian. It is an app-based platform offers various services like private social media experience, logistics, guest management and more.
The company has raised over $290K (INR 2 Cr) in seed funding from an angel investors such as ex-Facebook India managing director Kirthiga Reddy, Multiples Equity founder Renuka Ramanath as well as friends and family.
Wedding Wishlist uses weddingwishlist.com as their primary domain name and weddingwishlist.in redirected to Weddingwishlist.com. Hope they can acquire generic domain names too for their online branding.