D2C startups in Guwahati
Direct to consumer brands built on owned supply chains, including the tea, handloom and bell metal lines the region is known for.
8 companies building in D2C here.
Guwahati-based D2C tea-tech brand launched 2018 by Ranjit Baruah (ex-McLeod Russel, ~2 decades in tea). Sells ~26 tea blends including six Assam varieties direct-to-consumer online. Represents the Assam tea-...
Woman-founded (Nilotpala Sahariah, 2024) B2B ecommerce platform for Northeast India that turns agri-waste and natural fibres (banana fibre, bamboo) into high-value handcrafted products, sourcing directly fro...
Keshav
Founded September 2016; D2C bamboo-products brand spanning pen-holders to furniture — a "bamboo as green gold" NE sustainability/handicrafts play. (HQ listed as Assam; exact Guwahati address not fully confir...
Dhruba Jyoti Deka
Founded 2017; online marketplace taking authentic Assamese handicrafts — brass and bell-metal ware from Sarthebari — to national and global buyers. D2C handicrafts play tied to NE artisan clusters.
D2C / ecommerce marketplace founded 2017 by Dhruba Jyoti Deka connecting ~3,000 Northeast artisans, weavers and organic farmers to national buyers (handloom sarees, eri/mulberry silk mekhelas, bamboo/bell-me...
Rimjim Deka & Partha Kakati
Founded 2022; bootstrapped in-house-manufactured Gen-Z / Y2K D2C fashion label selling 100% via its own website. Reported ~Rs 9 crore net revenue at ~15% margin in year one and ~100,000 shipments across Indi...
Kartic Sharma
Founded July 2021; D2C startup manufacturing pre-brewed/ready-to-drink tea liquid, from an Assam tea-farming family — an instant-tea innovation on the state's core crop.
Bijit Sarma
Founded 2017; internet-first D2C organic/green tea brand curated from 150+ Assam smallholder gardens, known for plastic-free organic-cotton tea bags. Raised ~Rs 3 crore pre-Series A from NEDFi Venture Capita...
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