Angel Investments
Interest-based social media startup Pepul raises funding from Paytm, Freshworks founders
Interest-based social media startup, Pepul has raised USD 1.5 million from investors including Hourglass Venture Partners, Freshworks' Girish Mathrubootham and Paytm's Vijay Shekhar Sharma. Founded in 2020 by Suresh Kumar G, the Chennai-based startup claims to be a privacy-first and interest-based social media network that restricts anonymous users & negative content on the platform. It only allows those users to create a profile who can prove their identity through real-time profile pictures. The social media startup will use the funding for ramping up infrastructure, team expansion and increasing user count. The app, which is still in the beta phase, is claimed to have been downloaded across 177 countries.
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