Zookee · Our venture
Your AI growth connector.
Zookee is an AI growth connector for India. Investors, customers, mentors and grants - all surfaced and reached through a WhatsApp-first experience built for Indian founders.
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- Sector
- GrowthTech
- What we did
- Product, AI matching, WhatsApp experience
- Built for
- Indian founders
- Platform
- WhatsApp-first
01
The problem
In India, founders grow through who they know.
Investors, early customers, mentors and government grants all exist - but finding the right ones depends on networks that most first-time founders, especially outside the metros, simply don't have.
Cold emails go unread. Grant portals are scattered and hard to follow. And the founder's time goes into searching instead of building.
“Talent is everywhere in India. Access isn't.”
02
How we solved it
The right people, surfaced where founders already are.
- 01
Tell it what you're building
A founder describes the company and what it needs right now - capital, customers, advice or a grant.
- 02
AI surfaces the right matches
Zookee finds the investors, customers, mentors and grants that fit the stage and sector.
- 03
Reach out on WhatsApp
Everything happens in the chat app founders already use all day - no new dashboard to learn.
- 04
Follow through
Keep track of who you've reached and what's next, so one introduction leads to the next.
03
Unique insights
What building Zookee taught us - the things we'd tell a founder before they start.
Meet founders where they are.
Indian founders run their businesses on WhatsApp. Building there first made Zookee feel like a helpful contact, not another tool.
Grants are overlooked capital.
Government and ecosystem grants are non-dilutive and widely available, but hard to find. Surfacing them is often the fastest win.
Relevance beats reach.
Ten well-matched introductions are worth more than a database of ten thousand names.
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