Footwear startup RARA Barefoot raises $500K in seed round

Footwear startup RARA Barefoot  has raised $500K in an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round and announced the launch of its debut sneaker line. The round led by  founders and senior operators from Zomato, Urban Company, Tata 1mg, Shyft and HexaHealth, along with Managing Directors and Partners from ChrysCapital and BCG.

The proceeds will be used to support its national D2C rollout, the establishment of select offline retail partnerships, and local manufacturing scale-up as the brand prepares to bring barefoot sneakers to Indian consumers, RARA…