AppsForBharat raises $4 million seed round

CHENNAI:

AppsForBharat

, a product studio focused on building apps for spiritual and devotional needs of Indian users, has raised $4 million in seed funding co-led by

Sequoia Capital India

and

BEENEXT

. The round also saw participation from

WEH Ventures

.

The funds will primarily be used for product development and hiring tech talent.

AppsForBharat was set up with a vision to build a spiritual-tech company that specifically caters to the needs of Indians. The startup is currently developing a range of mobile apps that cater to the country's spiritual as well as devotional needs. The apps attempt to move offline behaviour to online and thereby create a digital habit, the company said.

AppsForBharat has a multidisciplinary team with prior experience in building and scaling products across domains such as content, gaming, social and e-commerce. The company is looking to hire product, data and engineering talent who want to be a part of this larger digital spiritual transformation.