Venture Linkup - Founder Files
🚀 From ₹1 Lakh in Savings to a ₹100 Cr Exit 🌿
In 2016, Arjun Vaidya left his job in New York, returned to India, and bet everything on one belief:
“Ayurveda can be cool again.”
No big funding. No big team. Just one fo
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Anonymous 1
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This is what real founder stories look like. No flashy seed round, just legacy + grind. one of the rare D2C exits in India that actually scaled. 👏
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