Social networking platform Oopar Club raises funds from PedalStart

Community-driven social networking and socialisation-tech platform Oopar Club has raised Rs 50 lakh in its maiden pre-seed funding round led by startup community-builder PedalStart along with participation from Paper Arizona co-founder Ankitt Jain.

The proceeds will be utilised towards upgrading its technology and flagship platform, talent acquisition as well as increasing its user base and accelerating overall growth, product and tech enhancement, and team building, Oopar Club said in a press release.

Co-founded in 2022 by Sagar Agarwal, Pragya Srivastava and Sourabh Akash, Oopar Club is building a community-based ecosystem that enables adults to make real friends by connecting and bonding with like-minded people and maximise their personal growth.

The Bengaluru-based startup aims to solve the growing challenge of urban loneliness, isolation, and stagnant personal growth, especially amongst today’s young and middle-aged working professionals across tier I and tier II cities of India.

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Oopar’s app is currently available on both Android & iOS and the app also rewards users for socialising and performing healthy habits regularly. Its main competition is with local clubs and communities and aims to organise the unorganised segment.

PedalStart claims that its community has grown to 10,000 startups, over 300 mentors, and 800 founders. The sector-agnostic platform invests across agritech, insuretech, cleantech healthcare & network and is looking to invest in sectors such as robotics, medical science, deep tech and others. It has backed startups like Newtral.io, BetterSpace, Bull Agritech, OhLocal, and Rupid, among others.