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Startup Deep Dive : Scimplify — how a two-year-old specialty chemicals platform scaled revenue 11x to Rs 200 crore

In the financial year to March 2025, a specialty-chemicals platform that had been trading for barely 18 months reported operating revenue of ₹200 crore (about $21 million at ₹96.0 to the dollar), up more than eleven times from ₹17.74 crore the year before, according to regulatory filings reported by Entrackr in July 2026. In the same year, it lost ₹25.38 crore. That is the paradox at the centre of Scimplify: one of the fastest revenue ramps in Indian B2B, paired with a loss that grew alongside the top line.

Scimplify is the brand of CoCreate Global Technologies Private Limited, a Bengaluru company incorporated on 22 September 2023 (CIN U21009KA2023PTC179006, Karnataka Registrar of Companies, per Tracxn). It sits in an unglamorous corner of the economy, the sourcing and made-to-order manufacture of specialty chemicals, and it has attracted an unusually crowded cap table for a company this young, including Accel, Bertelsmann, Omnivore, 3one4 Capital and, most recently, Japan’s Hitachi Ventures. This piece works through what the company actually does, who built it, how it earns, the three years of numbers on public record, and the risks the balance sheet already shows.

Quick facts

Company Scimplify (CoCreate Global Technologies Private Limited)
Founded Incorporated 22 September 2023, Bengaluru (Tracxn; CIN U21009KA2023PTC179006)
Founders Sachin Santhosh, Salil Srivastava, Dheeraj Dhingra (Forbes India)
Businesses Full-stack B2B specialty-chemicals platform: contract research, process engineering and made-to-order manufacturing via its ATOMS platform
Latest FY revenue ₹200 crore operating revenue in FY25, up 11x from ₹17.74 crore in FY24 (Entrackr, July 2026, from RoC filings)
Latest FY profit / loss Net loss of ₹25.38 crore in FY25 (Entrackr, July 2026)
Listed Private (no IPO as of September 2026)
Last valuation About ₹2,323 crore (Entrackr estimate, July 2026) at the Hitachi Ventures-led Series C; Series B was struck at roughly $150 million post-money in March 2025 (TechCrunch)
Key shareholders 3one4 Capital 15.54%, Accel 13.84%, Omnivore 12.14%, Bertelsmann 10.26%, Hitachi Ventures 3.28% (Entrackr, post-Series C)

What Scimplify does

Scimplify is a business-to-business platform for specialty chemicals: the low-volume, high-value compounds that go into medicines, crop protection, cosmetics and industrial processes rather than into bulk commodities. It does not simply list suppliers; it takes responsibility for the whole chain from molecule to delivery. Its offering breaks into a few clear parts:

As of March 2025 the company said it had served 600 customers across more than 16 countries, sourcing from a supplier base spread across India, China, Vietnam, Egypt and Japan among others (TechCrunch, March 2025).

The origin

The idea did not start with a factory or a product. It started with a question. In 2022, co-founder Sachin Santhosh was talking to a pharmaceutical executive in the United States who needed a specific chemical intermediate for a drug. The compound was not exotic; a factory in Hyderabad could make it. What the American buyer could not be sure of was whether that factory could make it to the right quality, at commercial scale, and supply it reliably, month after month, as reported by Forbes India in 2026.

That gap between raw manufacturing capacity and dependable, auditable supply became the founding thesis. As Santhosh put it, the problem was not supply but trust and scalability (Entrepreneur India). India had plenty of underused chemical plants; what it lacked was a layer that could vet them, standardise quality and stand behind delivery to a global buyer. Santhosh had studied material science at IIT Madras, spent time in investment banking at Credit Suisse, and then worked at OfBusiness across polymers, textiles and packaging, which gave him a close view of how fragmented and informal Indian manufacturing supply chains can be (Entrepreneur India). He teamed up with Salil Srivastava, who had built and scaled a chemicals vertical to about $20 million in revenue at Zetwerk and holds an MBA from MANAGE Hyderabad, and Dheeraj Dhingra, an IIM Bangalore graduate who had run international markets across the Middle East and Southeast Asia at Zetwerk (Forbes India). The company was incorporated in September 2023 and, in its earliest fundraising coverage, was even spelt “Scimplifi” (Entrackr, December 2023).

The hard part: trust, not supply

Scimplify is young enough that it has no decade of near-death stories to tell. Its struggle is structural, and it is visible in the accounts. The company chose the harder version of the specialty-chemicals business: not to be a broker taking a clip on trades, but to underwrite quality and delivery end to end. That means carrying the cost and the risk of a problem the market had left unsolved.

Three concrete frictions stand out from the public record:

In other words, the difficulty was never finding chemicals or factories. It was persuading global buyers that an Indian-sourced, made-to-order supply chain could be as dependable as an incumbent’s, and then paying to make that promise true.

The turning point

The single event that changed Scimplify’s trajectory was its $40 million Series B on 12 March 2025, co-led by Accel and Bertelsmann India Investments, with participation from UMI, Omnivore and 3one4 Capital (TechCrunch; Entrepreneur India). It was struck at a post-money valuation of roughly $150 million (TechCrunch), and it took total capital raised to about $54 million since inception.

The numbers on either side of that round tell the story of why investors were willing to pay up. Going in, the company had a March-2024 revenue base of ₹17.74 crore. Coming out of the year in which the round landed, FY25 operating revenue had reached ₹200 crore, an eleven-fold jump in a single year (Entrackr, July 2026). At the same time the workforce roughly doubled, from about 150 employees around the time of the Series B (TechCrunch, March 2025) to 236 by August 2025 (Tracxn). The Series B was the capital that let Scimplify turn a promising thesis into an operating business at scale, and it set up the far larger valuation step that followed a year later.

The money behind it

For a company incorporated in September 2023, Scimplify has raised quickly and from a mix of Indian and global names. The rounds on record:

What the backers changed, in plain terms:

On valuation, the contested figure worth flagging: Entrackr’s July 2026 report, drawn from regulatory filings, put the Series C valuation at about ₹2,323 crore (around $245 million on the source’s own conversion), up 114% from roughly ₹1,086 crore previously. That estimate is echoed by Ascendants, though both trace to the same filings-based analysis, so it is best read as a reported estimate rather than a company-confirmed figure. The independently reported Series B mark of about $150 million post-money (TechCrunch, March 2025) is the firmer anchor.

How it makes money

Scimplify earns by owning the transaction rather than referring it. The economics work roughly like this:

The numbers

Only two full years sit on the public record so far, because the company has been trading only since September 2023 and had not filed FY26 accounts as of Entrackr’s July 2026 report. The figures below are operating revenue and net profit or loss, in ₹ crore, as reported by Entrackr from RoC filings.

Financial year Operating revenue (₹ crore) Net profit / (loss) (₹ crore)
FY24 (to March 2024) 17.74 Not separately reported
FY25 (to March 2025) 200 (25.38)
FY26 (to March 2026) Not yet filed as of July 2026 Not yet filed

A few points of context for the table:

Where the money comes from

Scimplify’s revenue is spread across end-industries and, increasingly, across borders. The disclosed splits and mix:

The surprise in the mix is that a company built on the pitch of “Indian manufacturing for the world” already sources from a genuinely multi-country supplier base. It is less a made-in-India story than a made-to-order-anywhere one, with India as the anchor rather than the whole map.

The risks

The public numbers already point to concrete risks, not hypothetical ones:

The takeaway

Scimplify’s real lesson is about where value hides in an old, fragmented industry. India did not lack chemical factories; it lacked a party willing to stand behind quality, scale and delivery so a buyer in New Jersey or Tokyo could trust an order placed in Hyderabad. Scimplify chose to own that promise rather than just advertise it, and the market rewarded the harder choice with capital, a fast-rising top line and a valuation step of more than 100% in a year. The unfinished part of the lesson is on the same page of the accounts: underwriting trust is expensive, and a business that books full order value still has to prove it can turn eleven-fold growth into durable margin. The company that fills a trust gap can grow astonishingly fast; whether it can also earn is the next thing the filings will have to show.

Frequently asked questions

What does Scimplify do?

Scimplify is a business-to-business specialty-chemicals platform. It offers contract research, process engineering and made-to-order manufacturing through a vetted network of third-party plants, and lists chemicals from more than 5,000 factories on its ATOMS platform, serving sectors such as pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and personal care (TechCrunch, March 2025; Forbes India, 2026).

Who founded Scimplify and when?

It was founded by Sachin Santhosh, Salil Srivastava and Dheeraj Dhingra, and the operating entity, CoCreate Global Technologies Private Limited, was incorporated on 22 September 2023 in Bengaluru (Forbes India; Tracxn).

How much money has Scimplify raised?

It raised a $3.67 million seed in November 2023, about $9.5 million in a 2024 Series A, a $40 million Series B in March 2025, and a ₹181 crore (about $19 million) Series C led by Hitachi Ventures reported in July 2026, taking cumulative funding to roughly $73 million (Entrackr; TechCrunch; Tracxn).

What is Scimplify’s revenue and is it profitable?

Operating revenue rose to ₹200 crore in FY25 from ₹17.74 crore in FY24, a more than eleven-fold increase, but the company posted a net loss of ₹25.38 crore in FY25 (Entrackr, from RoC filings, July 2026). It is not yet profitable.

What is Scimplify’s valuation?

Entrackr estimated the Series C valuation at about ₹2,323 crore (around $245 million on its own conversion) in July 2026, up 114% from roughly ₹1,086 crore. This is a filings-based estimate rather than a company-confirmed figure; the Series B was independently reported at about $150 million post-money in March 2025 (TechCrunch).

Sources

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

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