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Best Digital Publishing Platforms Companies in Maharashtra, India

The 37 best Digital Publishing Platforms companies in Maharashtra, India in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Kuku FM.

37companies tracked
$79.5Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
8have raised

Ranked: Best Digital Publishing Platforms companies in Maharashtra

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1Kuku FM
Provider of audiobooks, stories, and podcasts across various genres
$72M5 mo agoSeries CVikas Goyal
Co-Founder & CTO
2018SentryApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+19—
2HaikuJAM
Storytelling platform based on the poetry genre
$4M80 mo agoSeedDhrupad Karwa
Co-Founder & CEO
2015——
3StoryMirror
App-based platform allowing users to read and publish stories
$1M67 mo agoSeedBibhu Datta Rout
Founder and CEO
2015Cart FunctionalityZohoBootstrap+23—
4Oheyo
Provider of video Q&A platform to connect with experts
$565K124 mo agoSeedAllwin Agnel
Founder & CEO
2006——
5PagalGuy
Provider of education community with test preparation for various competitive exams
$565K124 mo agoSeed—2002WordPressMySQLPHP+22—
6Bluepad
Online platform allowing users to read and write multi-genre articles
$245K60 mo agoSeed—2021——
7StoryPix
Online digital story creation and narration portal
$240K38 mo agoSeedVaibhav Chavan
Founder
2022——
8Opined
User-generated blogging platform
—63 mo agoSeedVipul Gajera
Founder
2018——
9ASAPP Info Global Group
ASAPP Info Global Group is a publishing group focused on special interest publications.
——Early Stage—1999WordPressMySQLZoho+30—

Top 8 Digital Publishing Platforms companies in Maharashtra

#1
Series C · Mumbai, Maharashtra · founded 2018 · 327 employees
$72.3Mraised
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Provider of audiobooks, stories, and podcasts across various genres. It offers a diverse catalog of audio content for listening. It provides audiobooks, podcasts, stories, summaries, and educational audio content through its mobile app and website.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 242k LinkedIn followers — 77.0% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 partnerships (incl. PanIIT Alumni India Bangalore Summit 2026) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2026Angel—
  • Oct 2025Series C$50M
  • Sep 2023Series C$25M
  • Jan 2022Series B$41.3M
Founders & team
Vikas GoyalCo-Founder & CTOVinod MeenaCo-Founder & COOLal BisuCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Shunwei Capital, 3one4 Capital, India Quotient, Vertex Ventures, Krafton, Verlinvest
Tech stack
Amazon AlbAmazon CloudfrontAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailAws Certificate ManagerCore-Js
#2
Seed · Mumbai, Maharashtra · founded 2015 · 11 employees
$4.4Mraised
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Storytelling platform based on the poetry genre. It enables users to connect, chat and collaborate with each other to write poems. Also operates a mobile app for Android and iOS users. Also operates a merchandising store. Monetizes through in-app purchases.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2020Seed$3.4M
  • May 2017Seed$1M
  • 2015Angel—
Founders & team
Dhrupad KarwaCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Lightbox, Social Capital, FairAngels, peercheque
Tech stack
AmpWhatsapp Business ChatCloudflareOpen GraphHttp/3
#3
Seed · Mumbai, Maharashtra · founded 2015 · 12 employees
$1.1Mraised
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App-based platform allowing users to read and publish stories. The platform allows users to publish stories, poems, illustrations, and more. Additionally, users follow others, rate and review work, collaborate, publish books, share quotes, listen to audiobooks, and more. The app is available for Android and iOS devices.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2021Seed$113.7K
  • Mar 2020Angel$101.3K
  • Oct 2019Angel$528.5K
  • Feb 2018Angel$53.9K
Founders & team
Bibhu Datta RoutFounder and CEO
Investors
Sarcha Advisors, SEP Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon AssociatesBootstrapBootstrap IconsCart FunctionalityCdnjsCloudflare
#4
Seed · Mumbai, Maharashtra · founded 2022
$240Kraised
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Online digital story creation and narration portal. It is a user generated content led storytelling platform. It provides stories in multiple genres that can be customized by the reader, published, and earn. It enables creators to submit stories to the site for assessment. It also offers an application that allows users to play episodes and chapters, make choices, choose characters, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2023Seed$240K
Founders & team
Vaibhav ChavanFounder
Investors
We Founder Circle
#5
Seed · Mumbai, Maharashtra · founded 2021 · 7 employees
$245Kraised
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Online platform allowing users to read and write multi-genre articles. The platform allows users to publish poems, stories, and blogs on various categories, including inspirational, life, family, nation, and more. The mobile application is available for Android users.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2021Seed$245K
Investors
Titan Capital, Wellfound, AngelList
Tech stack
Node.JsReactAmazon Web ServicesNext.JsGoogle Tag ManagerGoogle Font Api
#6
Seed · Mumbai, Maharashtra · founded 2006 · 10 employees
$565.5Kraised
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Oheyo (previously Prepathon) provides a video Q&A platform to connect with experts. It enables students to ask questions to experts and the answers would be broadcasted to all of the expert’s followers. It lists experts in areas like competitive exams (JEE, CAT, GATE etc), health & nutrition, politics, entertainment, career advice, lifestyle, finance, and government exam among many others. Its apps can be downloaded via the Android and the IOS platform.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2016Seed$565.5K
Founders & team
Allwin AgnelFounder & CEO
Investors
Blume Venture
#7
Seed · Mumbai, Maharashtra · founded 2002 · 10 employees
$565.5Kraised
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Provider of education community with test preparation for various competitive exams. It serves as an online community for students looking out for enrolling in an MBA primarily and also other examinations like UPSC, Bank PO, Engineering, SSC CGL, and more. It along with access to free questions and other examination material. Students can track their progress and have discussions with other students and professionals on the platform. It also has social networking features such as follow-on users, discussion threads, and more. It also allows test prep companies and coaching institutions to create official user accounts and ping information and link to study material.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 8k LinkedIn followers — 2.6% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2016Seed$565.5K
Investors
Blume Venture
Tech stack
AkismetCdnjsCloudflareContact Form 7Core-JsFacebook Pixel
#8
Seed · Mumbai, Maharashtra · founded 2018 · 3 employees
—raised
▾

Opined is an user-generated blogging platform that enables readers to read the information based on various topics such as politics, business, sports, movies, and more. Readers can also share, discuss, and write their opinion on the platform.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 472 LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • 2021Seed—
Founders & team
Vipul GajeraFounder
Investors
ah! Ventures

Funding & investor landscape

$79.5Mtotal disclosed funding
7companies funded
17disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Blume Venture2 rounds
FBC2 rounds
3one4 Capital1 rounds
Alphatron Capital1 rounds
AngelList1 rounds
BITKRAFT Ventures1 rounds
Credence Partners1 rounds
FairAngels1 rounds
Fundamentum1 rounds
Good Game Investments1 rounds

Notable founders

Vikas Goyal
Co-Founder & CTO · Kuku FM
Vinod Meena
Co-Founder & COO · Kuku FM
Dhrupad Karwa
Co-Founder & CEO · HaikuJAM
Bibhu Datta Rout
Founder and CEO · StoryMirror
Vaibhav Chavan
Founder · StoryPix
Allwin Agnel
Founder & CEO · Oheyo
Vipul Gajera
Founder · Opined
Prism market signals · India · country-scoped Prism corpus, 6,074,777 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Digital Publishing Platforms coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

Common questions

How many Digital Publishing Platforms companies are there in Maharashtra, India?
Radar tracks 37 indexable Digital Publishing Platforms companies headquartered in Maharashtra, India that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Digital Publishing Platforms companies in Maharashtra, India?
The Digital Publishing Platforms companies in Maharashtra, India on this list have raised a combined $79.5M in disclosed equity funding across 7 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Digital Publishing Platforms company in Maharashtra, India?
Kuku FM is the highest-funded Digital Publishing Platforms company in Maharashtra, India, with $72.3M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Digital Publishing Platforms companies in Maharashtra, India are funded?
7 of the 37 Digital Publishing Platforms companies in Maharashtra, India on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Digital Publishing Platforms unicorns are there in Maharashtra, India?
None of the Digital Publishing Platforms companies in Maharashtra, India on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Maharashtra, India Digital Publishing Platforms companies?
The most active investors in Maharashtra, India Digital Publishing Platforms companies on this list include Blume Venture, FBC, 3one4 Capital, Alphatron Capital, AngelList.
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