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.