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Plus Gold raises $1.2 Mn led by JITO

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Gold investment app Plus Gold has raised $1.2 million in a seed funding round led by JITO along with participation from Venture Catalyst, Sonakshi Sinha, Sachin Shetty, Signal Ventures, Varun Dua, Shrish Mishra, Misfits among others. The proceeds will be deployed to raise its tech infra, improve user experience, strengthen security, and develop AI-driven investment advisory features, Plus Gold said in a press release. Founded in May 2022 by Veer Mishra and Raj Parekh, Plus Gold offers gold investments through Systematic Investment Plans (SIPs) or one-time transactions. It enables users to redeem their digital gold investments as physical jewellery at any time. According to the Bengaluru-based company, it weeds out barriers in traditional gold investment, such as storage, purity assurance, and liquidity issues. A part of the proceeds will also be used for hiring engineers, customer service executives and others. Plus Gold is operating in a crowded market as a bunch of well-funded companies have been operating in the space. At present, the online gold investment segment is dominated by PayU and Alpha Wave-backed Indfiagold, Rupeek, Oro Money and Tiger Global investee Jar among others. Large fintechs including PhonePe also added gold buying offering to their app.