Slayd raises $160,000 to build India's fashion discovery layer
What's the deal? Gurugram-based fashion discovery platform SlaydDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has raised US$203.7K (roughly $160,000) in a pre-seed round led by ajvcDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, the early-stage fund founded by Aviral Bhatnagar. The deal values the startup at about US$2.26M (around $166.6 million) post-money.
What's the endgame? Founded in 2025 by IIT Roorkee alumni Sparsh Jain, Harsh Porwal, and Kumar Prasang, Slayd aggregates fashion products from more than 300 marketplaces and D2C brands. It adds around 100,000 new products each month and uses a proprietary model that scores items across more than eight signals to spot emerging trends.
Why now? "India sees more than 1 lakh new apparel designs launched every month across hundreds of fragmented e-commerce platforms," said cofounder Sparsh Jain. "Slayd is building the discovery layer for this fragmented market."
By the numbers: Slayd claims it has crossed 200,000 users, with over 40% month-one retention. Power users average more than 10 sessions per month, and the platform currently flags over 2,000 products as emerging hotsellers.
What's the money for? Slayd will use the funds to expand its team and scale Slayd Originals, its private-label business launched in beta earlier this year. That brand now generates around 1,000 orders per month.
The company plans to use its trend data to identify styles worth developing in-house. "Our advantage is that we can identify what shoppers want before building it ourselves," said cofounder Harsh Porwal. "By controlling the design and supply chain, we can bring high-demand styles to customers at better prices."
The signal: As India's e-commerce catalogue fragments across hundreds of platforms, curation is becoming its own product category. Slayd's bet is that owning discovery data can feed a private-label engine — turning trend-spotting into a supply chain advantage.
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