Gravity Raises $15 Million to Build Common Infrastructure for the Indian Interior Materials Market

Buying kitchen cabinets or wardrobe fittings in India typically means navigating a fragmented mess of local fabricators, each with its own pricing, quality and lead times. Gravity is trying to turn that fragmented market into a single platform founders in this space have not managed to unify before.

Gravity, founded by former Livspace leaders Saurabh Jain and Lalit Mittal, raised $15 million in a mix of equity and debt led by 3one4 Capital and Info Edge Ventures, with participation from Alteria Capital, Genesia Ventures and a group of angel investors. The company is building a full-stack platform for premium home interior materials, bringing together specialist businesses across the kitchen and wardrobe segment into common infrastructure the broader industry can plug into.

Where the Capital Is Going

The funding will strengthen Gravity's technology, distribution and key-account infrastructure, support category expansion, build out brand capabilities, and provide working capital to scale the platform over time. Structuring part of the round as debt alongside equity is consistent with a business that has real physical inventory and distribution assets to collateralize, a financing choice more common among companies with tangible infrastructure than among pure software plays.

Why Founder Background Matters in a Fragmented Market

Jain and Mittal's prior leadership roles at Livspace, one of India's best-known home interior design platforms, give them direct experience with exactly the fragmentation problem Gravity is now trying to solve from the supply side rather than the consumer-facing design side. Gravity's bet is that the design-specified materials market, valued at roughly $15 billion within India's broader $35 billion home interiors industry, has enough scale to support a dedicated infrastructure layer, provided someone can bring the fragmented supplier base onto common technology and distribution rails.

What This Means for Founders

For founders building B2B infrastructure in fragmented Indian retail or manufacturing categories, Gravity's approach of building on top of founders' own prior operating experience in an adjacent consumer business is a pattern worth studying: understanding a market's structural inefficiencies from the inside, at a company like Livspace, before building the infrastructure layer meant to fix them is a meaningfully different starting point than approaching the same problem as an outside investor or first-time operator. Founders considering a similar blended equity-and-debt structure should also note that lenders typically only extend debt against a business with real collateralizable assets or predictable receivables, which is why the instrument tends to show up in categories with physical inventory rather than in pure software businesses.

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