Shark Tank India S5: A Round-up of Week 6 Key Highlights You Can't Miss!

Shark Tank India Season 5 continues to evolve into a serious reflection of the country’s startup landscape rather than just a televised pitch arena. Aman Gupta, Anupam Mittal, Namita Thapar, Vineeta Singh, Peyush Bansal, Ritesh Agarwal, Kunal Bahl, Viraj Bahl, and Amit Jain, alongside new faces including Varun Alagh, Mohit Yadav, Kanika Tekriwal, Shaily Mehrotra, and Hardik Kothiya, with Pratham Mittal joining for campus episodes, bringing diverse expertise in consumer goods, tech, skincare, aviation, and energy. 

This week’s episode demonstrated how varied Indian entrepreneurship has become—ranging from consumer fintech and food brands to children’s intellectual property, agri-tech, robotics, and indigenous defence technology. What united these otherwise different businesses was a common challenge: translating vision into scalable, defensible execution.

1. Panda’s Box 

Founded in 2022 by Sukriti and Rajat, Panda’s Box is a culturally rooted children’s brand creating toys, décor, puzzles, and learning kits designed to introduce young minds to Indian stories, values, and mantras through play. The brand positioned itself at the intersection of education and culture, tapping into the growing demand for meaningful, screen-free engagement tools for children. Their pitch emphasised how storytelling and play can shape early learning while staying rooted in Indian traditions, making the brand both purpose-driven and market-relevant.

2. Voxturn

Founded by Gaurav Vishwakarma and Anuja Futane, Voxturn (Invorto AI) is an AI voice automation platform built to streamline customer communication for businesses. The platform enables companies to deploy human-like voice agents that can handle interactions at scale, reducing operational load while improving efficiency. During the pitch, the founders highlighted the increasing need for AI-driven communication tools in customer service, positioning Voxturn as a scalable solution for smarter and more consistent business interactions.

3. MyWonder

MyWonder, a Bengaluru-based startup co-founded by Chandramouli K and Venkat Potluri, introduced a screen-free AI learning companion designed for children aged 3–10. The device uses voice interaction and adaptive content to create a play-based learning environment without screens. The founders focused on rising concerns around excessive screen time and positioned MyWonder as a development-focused alternative that encourages creativity, curiosity, and independent learning through conversational AI and interactive storytelling.

4. CotoPay 

Founded byAviral Gupta, Vidit Sidana, and Uzair Syed Ahmed, CotoPay is a UPI voucher platform that simplifies corporate expense management by offering purpose-specific e-rupee vouchers. The platform allows organisations to issue controlled digital vouchers, ensuring funds are used only for intended business purposes. During the pitch, the founders emphasised transparency, compliance, and financial control, making the platform particularly relevant for companies looking to streamline employee spending and reduce misuse of expense reimbursements.

5. Local All-Natural Soda

Local All Natural Soda, founded by Zomawii Khiangte andFelipe Rodriguez, is a premium craft soda brand from Mizoram that creates fruit-based, all-natural carbonated beverages using ingredients sourced from local farmers. By introducing flavours like pomelo and ginger ale, the brand brought regional authenticity to the premium beverage category. Their pitch stood out for its strong sourcing narrative and focus on clean-label consumption, while also highlighting the potential of Northeast India’s agricultural produce in modern consumer markets.

6. The Binge Town

The Binge Town, founded by Soumay Bansal, Sanketh Jai, Yash Agarwal, Chetan Agarwal, and Bishnu Sah, is a private theatre experience brand offering curated venues for birthdays, anniversaries, and intimate celebrations. Built on a franchise-led model, the venture has already expanded across multiple cities, reflecting the rising demand for personalised celebration spaces. Explaining their core belief, the founders said, “People want to celebrate more often, but they don’t have effective and affordable options. We are making celebrations grand, hassle-free and affordable through just a few clicks.”

During their Shark Tank India Season 5 pitch, the team focused on traction and customer validation to communicate their vision. “We communicated this through our growth journey, customer reviews, business numbers, and the increasing demand for curated celebration venues,” the founders shared. Feedback from the sharks, particularly around scalability, played a key role in shaping their post-show strategy. “One feedback we got from multiple sharks was regarding scalability, so we are now focusing on franchise-led expansion and a stronger platform model,” they noted.

Looking ahead, the vision is ambitious yet structured. “Our long-term vision is to make The Binge Town India’s favourite celebration brand with 1000+ venues by 2030. The immediate milestone is 200+ venues across 25+ cities by the end of 2026,” the founders added.

7. PropFTX 

Founded by Rajeev Chhabra and Varun Singhi, PropFTX is a fractional real-estate investment platform that uses AI, blockchain, and Web3 technology to make property ownership more accessible through secure, low-entry digital investments. The founders positioned the platform as a solution to one of the biggest barriers in real estate — high capital requirements and limited liquidity.

The sharks engaged deeply on aspects such as regulatory compliance, scalability, and long-term asset security, given the complexity of combining real estate with blockchain infrastructure. The founders emphasised that their long-term roadmap includes building a full-stack digital ecosystem where property discovery, fractional investment, portfolio tracking, and documentation can be managed seamlessly on one platform, positioning PropFTX as a bridge between traditional real estate and modern digital finance.

8. Eight Times Eight 

Founded by Abhijith M, Athul Krishna, Arijith M, and Adesh Joshi, Eight Times Eight is an online chess coaching and skill-development platform offering structured training programs for learners across age groups and skill levels. The brand focuses on using chess as a tool to build cognitive, analytical, and strategic thinking abilities. Their pitch highlighted the growing popularity of online skill-based learning and the increasing parental interest in structured extracurricular development for children, positioning chess as both an educational and mental fitness activity.