D2C startups in Varanasi

Aman Kumar

Agri-food startup (brand: Nutty Village) processing groundnuts and millets at the farm level. Part of the PRASFUTAN seed-stage cohort at RKVY-RAFTAAR, IIT (BHU). D2C-leaning farm-produce processing; early-st...

Ayushi Seth

D2C food brand making jaggery-sweetened food products (healthier-sugar positioning). Woman-founded; PRASFUTAN seed-stage cohort at RKVY-RAFTAAR, IIT (BHU). Early-stage.

Kamini Singh

Agri-food venture producing moringa-based products (powder, capsules, oils, soaps). Woman-founded; PRASFUTAN seed-stage cohort at RKVY-RAFTAAR, IIT (BHU). Early-stage.

Women-led (Shahana Zubair, CEO) F2C/B2B Banarasi saree platform connecting weavers directly to small boutiques and consumers on a fair-trade model. Positions itself as wholesale/B2B saree sourcing plus artis...

Representative pair of long-legacy Banarasi-silk weaving houses (Banaras Handloom Co. serving since ~1970; HMR Handlooms weaving since ~1930) that transitioned to online D2C sale of pure handloom silk saris....

Adarsh Agrawal

D2C arm of GN Bros Sarees Pvt Ltd, a Banaras saree house dating to 1966. Pivoted from five-decade B2B wholesale to the direct-to-consumer route (golghar.org) around the pandemic, working directly with artisa...

(handwoven Banarasi silk D2C)

Online store selling 100% pure handwoven Banarasi silk sarees crafted by Varanasi weavers, blending traditional weaving with modern design. Another small weaver-linked D2C e-commerce brand. Scale unverified.

Founded 2012 by Umang Agrawal (ex-international-finance; MBA/CFA/FRM) on a five-decade family handloom legacy. An early mover in Banarasi textile e-commerce, selling luxury handwoven saris/fabrics D2C to end...

Premium/luxury Banarasi saree brand (founder Urmila Srivastava) with a flagship retail studio in Sigra. Known for limited-edition master-weaver 'Studio Series' pieces with multi-month production cycles. Posi...

Banarasi handloom D2C brand built on a saree-manufacturing family legacy dating to the 1960s, now digitized for online retail. Woman-associated ('by Namita'); represents the tradition-to-e-commerce transitio...

One of Varanasi's leading Banarasi-silk D2C e-commerce houses; online arm of the ~century-old JDS Varanasi textile family. Sells Silk Mark-certified, GI-tagged handwoven saris globally with WhatsApp live-vid...

(Banarasi silk D2C)

Varanasi-based online Banarasi silk saree brand operating out of the city with 40+ years of family textile expertise and a catalogue of 5,000+ designs. D2C e-commerce play on the GI silk craft. Scale unverif...