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Bolo Indya raises $4,00,000 investments
Bolo Indya raises $4,00,000 investments
On the mission to build India’s largest passion economy driven short video platform, Bolo Indya aims to empower content creators to transform social capital to financial independence.
Bengaluru: On the mission to build India's largest passion economy driven short video platform, Bolo Indya aims to empower content creators to transform social capital to financial independence.
Bolo Indya, a short videos sharing platform in local Indian languages, has raised $ 400,000 led by Inflection Point Ventures. Existing investors from Eagle10 Ventures also participated in the round. With this the total investment raised by the company has reached $ 1 million till date.
Bolo Indya offers a unique proposition of Bolo Meets to its 2.8 million content creators to leverage their social capital across the user base of more than 6.5 million and have the followers do micropayments to avail one-to-one and one-to-many live video sessions with them around their expertise area.
Content creators are already earning up to Rs 60-70,000 per month from this initiative, with more than 50,000 bookings since the launch of Bolo Meets. Bolo Meets has emerged as a moat for Bolo Indya leading to high user engagement and creator retention and is also catching investors' eyeballs. Top Bolo Meets categories include Astrology, Lifestyle, Fitness, Language Learning, Singing, Dancing, Standup Comedy and Instrument Learning.
The funds will be used to enhance personalization & recommendation engine, to further expand Bolo Meets and enhance tools to further empower the content creators during Bolo Meets sessions as well as to strengthen the team.
Varun Saxena, founder, Bolo Indya, said, "We are on the mission to leverage the unique amalgamation of passion, content and commerce to empower every content creator of Bharat to go viral in the shortest span of time and be able to monetize by leveraging the social capital. We are building towards democratizing the talent and skill of every content creator out there who loves creating short videos across interest areas in their local languages."
"There is an exploding trend of short video consumption and content commerce in India. I am very confident of the team's understanding and the way they have built differentiation around Bolo Meets and are scaling it up. Their engagement first approach and focus on high user retention clearly makes them stand apart from the clutter in short video space. IPV,with its vast Investor base of CXOs from diverse industries including Media & Entertainment, will help BoloIndya access a large unexplored market base and expand its network exponentially while enhancing the Tech capabilities as well." says Mitesh Shah, co-founder, Inflection Point Ventures.
"Short videos in local languages are expected to see the demand of over 80 million users by 2022, just 4th to Youtube, Payments and E-Commerce. This is where Bolo Indya wants to bring in video commerce for personalized online services to build a product which adds contextual value to the time spent on the internet by regional language users," claims Varun.
