Creator-focused commerce startup Wishlink has raised $17.5 million in a Series B funding round led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India. Existing investors Fundamentum and Elevation Capital also participated in the round.<\/p>\n
The new round comes after a gap of two years. In February 2024, Wishlink had raised a $7 million<\/a> round from The Fundamentum Partnership Fund and Elevation Capital. It also closed its seed round of $3 million<\/a>in October 2022.<\/p>\n The fresh proceeds will be used to expand its creator and brand partnerships and strengthen its technology stack across consumers, creators and brands.<\/p>\n Founded in 2022 by Shaurya Gupta, Divyansh Ameta and Chandan Yadav, Wishlink operates a creator commerce platform that enables product discovery through influencers. The platform helps creators monetise content while allowing brands to drive sales and customer acquisition.<\/p>\n Wishlink currently works with over 40,000 monthly active creators who generate more than 300,000 pieces of content every month.\u00a0<\/p>\n The platform facilitates over 6 million orders and drives more than Rs 350 crore in monthly sales for partner brands and e-commerce platforms.<\/p>\n It uses data-driven tools to help brands track performance across the funnel while improving shopping experiences for consumers. It also enables creators to earn commissions through product-linked content.<\/p>\n According to its annual financial statement, Wishlink saw its revenue from operations surge 356% YoY to Rs 53.80 crore in FY25 from Rs 11.79 crore in FY24, while losses remained nearly flat at Rs 18.79 crore, compared to Rs 18.22 crore a year earlier.<\/p>\n Disclaimer:<\/p>\n Bareback Media has recently raised funding from a group of investors. Some of the investors may directly or indirectly be involved in a competing business or might be associated with other companies we might write about. This shall, however, not influence our reporting or coverage in any manner whatsoever. You may find a list of our investors here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Creator-focused commerce startup Wishlink has raised $17.5 million in a Series B funding round led by Vertex Ventures…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[138,336,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-299449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}