Gurugram-based online lifestyle media platform, What’s Up Life, has raised fresh funding from actor and television personality Rannvijay Singha, who also joins the company as its brand ambassador.
The company aims to utilise the latest round of funding for future growth and expansion.
Speaking about the company, Rannvijay Singha said, “I liked the platform and the way ‘What’s Up Life’ is reaching out to people with their Engaging Content & Events.” He is known for hosting a number of MTV Reality Shows, like MTV Roadies, MTV Troll Police, MTV Splitsvilla etc.
What’s Up Life, founded by Gaurav H Luthra, (an Alumni from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade), is an online lifestyle media platform to discover exciting new things and places that your city has to offer. The platform curates engaging content over their social media pages, editorials, calendar to keep you updated with all the activities & events across categories.
Started as What’s Up Gurgaon, What's Up Life is present in 5 cities – Delhi , Noida , Gurugram, Kolkata & Hyderabad and today is the largest Lifestyle Media across 3 cities (Gurgaon, Kolkata & Hyderabad) out of 5. They are expanding to Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Chandigarh and Jaipur in the next 6 months.
Venture Garage was the advisor to WUL for the fundraise and also helped in connecting with Ranvijay Singh Singha via their network.
The company was previously invested by Karan Puri, author of the National Bestseller – Shit Happens and Praveen Puri of Skyline Education Group whose parent company is owned by Kamal Puri of Skyline Group based in UAE.
What’s Up Life was founded 4 and a half years ago, and its app is also available for Android and iOS users.