Lifestyle Products Discovery Platform Smytten Gets Funding from Rajan Anandan, MD of Google India & South East Asia

Smytten, an online discovery platform for premium lifestyle products and services, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Rajan Anandan, prolific angel investor, and Vice President and Managing Director of Google, South-East Asia and India. Smytten will use this round of funding for enhancing user experience, product development and expanding both user and brand base. The company is going to pay special attention to artificial intelligence and algorithmically personalise offerings on their platform.

Founded by ex Unilever and Google executives, Siddhartha Nangia and Swagata Sarangi respectively - Smytten is India's first invitation-only lifestyle platform. It provides its customers an engaging and curated discovery trial and shopping experience for premium products and services. Within just six months of inception, Smytten has over 80 domestic and international brands on its platform, and thousands of engaged consumers. The platform addresses multiple lifestyle needs across beauty, health and wellness, lifestyle among others.

“The new flush of investment will  help us focus further on product, content, and seamlessly integrate technology, marketing & operations to create value for both brands and consumers” said Swagata Sarangi, Co-founder of Smytten. “ We have designed the Smytten interface with absolute simplicity to make it a delight for our users to interact and use. Also, a strong focus on data driven curation has helped us get extremely high engagement rates, with daily returning users beating industry standards”, He further added.

The online market for premium lifestyle is being disrupted due to huge eCommerce adoption by India’s working population, and discretionary consumer spending. Less than 1% of the market is online today, and is poised to grow to a healthy 10-15% in the next 3-4 years. Direct consumer engagement is key to growth in the segment. Smytten is solving the discovery and engagement problem for both brands and consumers, creating a scalable online model for high end products and services.