Founder · Swish

Saran S

Co-founder of Swish, a foodtech company based in Bengaluru.

Co-founderBengaluruFoodtech
Founded
2024
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Raised to date
$78M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
Series C
$24M · September 2026

About

Saran S is Co-founder of Swish, a foodtech company based in Bengaluru, founded in 2024. Swish's most recent disclosed round was a funding round of $24M in September 2026.

Compiled from StartupFox records · updates as coverage is published

Company

Est. 2024
Swish
Foodtech · Bengaluru · Active

Swish is a Bengaluru end-to-end food company delivering freshly prepared meals in about ten minutes, and one of the few Indian operators still building in ultra-fast food after larger platforms retreated from the category. It owns the whole stack rather than aggregating restaurants: neighbourhood kitchens with dedicated prep, cooking and assembly stations, its own ordering platform, and its own delivery fleet, all operating within a one to two kilometre radius so food barely travels. Because it captures the full food gross margin, around 60 to 65 percent, rather than an aggregator's 15 to 20 p

Funding
September 2026Series C$24MBertelsmann India Investments (lead), Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Hara Global
Mar 2026Series B$38MHara Global & Bain Capital Ventures (co-leads), Accel; venture debt from Alteria Capital, Stride Ventures
Mar 2025Series A$14MHara Global Capital & Accel India (co-leads), Gaurav Munjal, Sumer Juneja
Nov 2024Seed$2MAccel (lead)
Company profile →4 rounds on record

Journey with Swish

3 milestones
  1. 2024Founded

    Founded by Aniket Shah, an IIT Kharagpur alumnus with stints at Citi, Jupiter and Meesho, with Ujjwal Sukheja and Saran S, after the three timed a coffee and croissant from a test kitchen in HSR Layout to a friend's door in eight minutes. All three are named to Forbes India's 30 Under 30 the following year.

  2. Mar 2026Milestone

    Processes 20,000 daily orders through its owned cloud-kitchen network; expansion into Delhi NCR planned with the fresh capital. Read the story →

  3. Sep 2026Milestone

    Passes one million monthly orders, roughly tripling since March, across Bengaluru, Gurugram, Noida, Delhi and Ghaziabad. Menu reaches 250-plus SKUs across 20-plus categories, with lunch and dinner overtaking snacks and late-night meals.

Also building Swish

ASAniket ShahCo-founder · CEO · Forbes 30 Under 30→USUjjwal SukhejaCo-founder→

Coverage

1 story
Funding · 10 Sept 2026 · 7 min read
Swish Raises $24M for 10-Minute Food, a Category Swiggy and Zepto Backed Away From