Scenes By Avalon Raises Pre-Series A Funding Round
Scenes, a community platform by Avalon, announced today that they have raised an undisclosed amount in Pre-series A funding round from angels including Kunal Shah, Gaurav Munjal, Kalyan Krishnamurthy, Tanmay Bhat as well as giants like Tanglin Ventures, Better Capital, Whiteboard Capital, iSeed Ventures and Blume Founders Fund. The funds will be used towards further product development and growth of the platform.
Bengaluru based start-up Scenes by Avalon, hosts voice (and chat) communities to meet and hangout with like-minded people. In the next few months, it will evolve into a full-fledged community engagement suite. With a growing rapid usage, the user base has been consistently expanding 70-80% per month for both DAUs and MAUs since its launch just 2 months back in March 2021.
Avalon grew into one of India's largest and most engaging educational communities on social media after they launched in 2018, with a robust community of more than 2 lakh users across digital platforms and 50,000 on Discord alone. They eventually decided to scale up and meet the needs of their audience by building Scenes, a platform that caters to communities of all shapes and sizes. Scenes is available on both iOS and Android.
Commenting on the development, Varun Mayya, Founder & CEO of Avalon said, Were excited for the audience to experience Scenes and its features on Android. With a little bit of sunshine, the right soil, water and loads of love, we grew into one of India's largest and most engaged educational communities and decided to build our own platform aka Scenes by Avalon. It has already surpassed 5 million voice minutes since its launch in March 2021, and has 30,000 users and 1000+ live communities. Now with the support of our investors, Scenes will change the future of the community platform industry.
Scenes is squarely aligned with the massive inflection point in the creator economy in India where millions of young Indians engage with creators to learn & grow. Scenes is building the infrastructure to unlock this potential and I am excited to have an opportunity to see it all unfold, said Vaibhav Domkundwar of Better Capital, an early backer of breakout companies like Kutumb, Rupeek, Teachmint, Open & others.
While a spokesperson from Tanglin Ventures commented, Independent creator economy is a large and fast-growing market globally. We are super excited to be one of the early investors in Avalon Scenes and support Varun, Shashank and the rest of the Avalon Scenes team in building a full-stack community engagement platform for independent creators.
