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Startup Deep Dive : Geniemode – how a factory-free sourcing platform reached Rs 673 crore in FY25

Geniemode booked ₹673 crore (about $70 million) in operating revenue in FY25, roughly 2.6 times what it turned over just two years earlier, and it did the whole of it without owning a factory or holding much of its own stock, according to figures the company filed with the Registrar of Companies and that Entrackr compiled from those filings. That is the promise and the puzzle of this business in one line: a four-year-old sourcing platform moving hundreds of crores of furniture, cushions and clothing across borders on other people’s assets.

The puzzle is that the growth has not yet paid for itself. In the same FY25, Geniemode still recorded a net loss of about ₹51 crore, its investors have put in roughly $85 million across three rounds, and a Series C in early 2025 valued the company at an estimated ₹1,800 crore even as its co-founder was telling reporters the business had reached a positive EBITDA run rate. This is the record of how Geniemode was built, who backed it, how it actually earns, and where the numbers do and do not line up, using only sources published up to September 2026.

Quick facts

Company Geniemode (registered entity Geniemode Global Private Limited, CIN U51909DL2021PTC379420, per Tofler)
Founded May 2021; headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana
Founder(s) Amit Sharma (co-founder, CEO) and Tanuj Gangwani (co-founder, CFO), both formerly at Limeroad
Businesses B2B cross-border sourcing and supply-chain platform for furniture, home textiles, apparel and accessories
Latest FY revenue ₹673 crore in FY25 (about $70 million), up 21% from ₹556 crore in FY24 (Entrackr; Inc42 lists ₹678.4 crore vs ₹563.7 crore)
Latest FY profit/loss Net loss of about ₹51 crore in FY25, down 35% from ₹77.62 crore in FY24 (Entrackr, from RoC filings)
Listed Private
Last valuation About ₹1,800 crore (~$212 million) at the Series C, reported February–March 2025 (Entrackr/Fintrackr estimate; not officially disclosed by the company)
Total raised / key backers Roughly $85 million across Series A–C; Tiger Global, Info Edge, Multiples, Fundamentum, Paramark Ventures

What Geniemode does

Geniemode is a business-to-business sourcing platform that sits between global brands and retailers on one side and the factories that make their goods on the other. Its customers are buyers of home and fashion products, and the company handles the end-to-end supply chain for them: design and product development, matching orders to manufacturers, quality control and inspection, compliance, order tracking, logistics and delivery. The catalogue spans four categories, furniture, home textiles, apparel and accessories, and the pitch to a buyer is a single tech-enabled window into cost, minimum order quantities, a design library and live order status instead of a scattered network of agents and factories. As reported by YourStory, its buyers have included brands and retailers such as Mango, Desigual, Lefties, Amazon, Next in the UK, TJ Maxx in the US, TK Maxx in the UK and Liverpool in Mexico, with sourcing markets in the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe.

The origin: two Limeroad hands and a broken handoff

Geniemode was founded in May 2021 by Amit Sharma and Tanuj Gangwani, two people who had already spent years inside the messy middle of Indian fashion retail. Both came from Limeroad, the online fashion marketplace; Gangwani had been a co-founder and finance leader there and Sharma had run sourcing, so between them they had lived the buying side and the money side of the same problem. The founding insight was old-fashioned and specific. Global brands buy enormous volumes of home and fashion goods from Indian and Asian factories, but the process that connects them still ran on buying agents, email chains, sample couriers and spreadsheets, with the buyer rarely able to see the true cost or the real status of an order. Sharma and Gangwani reasoned that the handoff from a brand’s design to a factory’s shipment could be turned into software plus a managed service, so that a buyer in London or New York could place, track and receive an order with the transparency they were used to online but almost never got in wholesale sourcing. Geniemode was built to be that layer.

The struggle years: a hard category and thin margins

The business Geniemode chose is a difficult one to make money in, and the early record shows it. Cross-border sourcing is a low-margin, high-volume trade: the company largely books the value of the goods it moves as revenue, which makes the top line look large, while the actual margin it keeps is thin and easily eaten by materials, freight and people. That structural reality is visible in the filings. In FY24 the cost of materials alone was ₹467 crore against operating revenue of ₹556 crore, and total expenses of ₹641 crore pushed the company to a net loss of ₹77.62 crore, as reported by Entrackr from the RoC filing. Building the network was also slow, capital-hungry work. Geniemode had to sign up factories and buyers on both sides of the marketplace before either side saw much value, and around mid-2022, only about a year in, it counted roughly 200-plus suppliers and 100-plus buyers, per a Citi profile of the company. Adding western demand meant opening in the US and the UK and competing for the attention of large, careful retail buyers who already had entrenched sourcing relationships. None of this is a single dramatic near-death; it is the grind of proving that a middleman can add enough value to justify its cut in a trade that has always resented middlemen.

The turning point: from India-only sourcing to owning the buyer relationship

The event that reshaped the company was the leap in scale between FY23 and FY24, paid for by venture money and a push into western markets. Operating revenue rose more than 2.6 times to reach ₹556 crore in FY24, according to Entrackr, on the back of a widened geography and a deeper roster of global buyers. The strategic shift underneath that number was moving from being a sourcing agent for Indian goods to positioning as the buyer’s outsourced supply chain across categories and countries, the party that owns design, quality and logistics rather than just introducing a factory. That is what let Geniemode grow its order value fast while arguing it could eventually keep more of each rupee. By the time of its Series C in early 2025, co-founder and CFO Tanuj Gangwani was framing the business as having crossed into disciplined growth, telling reporters the company had reached a positive EBITDA run rate of over $2 million (about ₹17 crore) and was closing the year with a gross merchandise value he put near $140 million. The audited FY25 filing tells a more measured version of the same story, and the gap between the two, examined below, is itself part of the turning point: Geniemode is now big enough that its own claims and its statutory numbers are worth reading side by side.

The money behind it

Geniemode has raised roughly $85 million across three institutional rounds in under four years, from a cap table that leans on two anchor investors, Info Edge and Tiger Global, joined at Series C by a set of growth funds.

Post the Series C allotment, Entrackr reported co-founder Amit Sharma held about 27.35%, Info Edge about 23.2% and new lead Multiples about 12.39%, with Fundamentum and Paramark taking smaller stakes. The stated purpose of the Series C money was global expansion, entering new markets and strengthening the technology behind the supply chain, per Entrackr’s reporting of the round. The valuations here are Fintrackr estimates derived from filings rather than company-confirmed figures, and should be read that way.

How Geniemode makes money

Geniemode is, in accounting terms, mostly a trading business with a technology and services wrapper. That single fact explains almost everything about its economics.

The numbers

The two most recent audited years show fast revenue growth alongside a shrinking, but still real, loss. Figures below are as reported by Entrackr from the company’s RoC filings; Inc42’s compilation lists slightly higher revenue (₹678.4 crore for FY25 and ₹563.7 crore for FY24), a normal gap between operating-revenue definitions.

Metric (₹ crore) FY24 FY25
Operating revenue 556 673
Sale of goods 549 657
Total expenses 641 731
Net loss 77.62 ~51

Where the money comes from

The risks

The takeaway

Geniemode’s story is a clean lesson in reading a “large” revenue number correctly. A ₹673 crore top line sounds like scale, but when almost all of it is the pass-through value of traded goods, the real question is not how big the revenue is but how many paise the company keeps from each rupee, and here that spread is thin enough to leave a loss even after fast growth and disciplined cost cuts. The transferable point for anyone building or backing a managed-trade platform is that asset-light does not mean high-margin: owning the buyer relationship, the design and the quality control is what eventually earns a defensible cut, and until that cut widens, growth is mostly volume. Geniemode has built the network and the demand; the unfinished work, visible in every year of its filings, is turning that volume into margin.

Frequently asked questions

What does Geniemode do?

Geniemode is a B2B cross-border sourcing and supply-chain platform based in Gurugram. It connects global brands and retailers with manufacturers and manages the end-to-end process, design, product development, quality control, compliance and logistics, for furniture, home textiles, apparel and accessories.

Who founded Geniemode and when?

It was founded in May 2021 by Amit Sharma and Tanuj Gangwani, who had both worked previously at the fashion marketplace Limeroad. Sharma is the CEO and Gangwani is the co-founder and CFO.

How much funding has Geniemode raised?

Roughly $85 million across three rounds: a $7 million Series A (reported January 2022, Info Edge), a $28 million Series B (April 2022, led by Tiger Global with Info Edge), and a Series C of over $50 million (reported February–March 2025, led by Multiples with Fundamentum, Paramark and Info Edge).

What is Geniemode’s revenue and is it profitable?

Operating revenue was about ₹673 crore in FY25, up 21% from ₹556 crore in FY24, per Entrackr’s reading of RoC filings. It was not profitable: it reported a net loss of about ₹51 crore in FY25, narrowed from ₹77.62 crore in FY24.

What is Geniemode’s valuation?

Entrackr’s Fintrackr estimated a post-money valuation of about ₹1,800 crore (~$212 million) at the Series C in early 2025, up from an estimated ₹1,228 crore ($162 million) at the Series B in April 2022. The company has not officially disclosed these valuations.

Sources

Figures are as of September 2026. Currency converted at $1 ≈ ₹96.0 as of 18 September 2026 (Trading Economics).

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