TranslateBuilding the world's most trusted worldwide marketplace and commerce platform — one honest step at a time.
We are K Vani and K Bhanu Prakash, founders of Adukoo™, headquartered in Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh - 517002, India. From there we operate a working worldwide marketplace — live in production across 180+ countries, on web (adukoo.com) and the Google Play Store Android app. Our roadmap is open-ended: prove every layer in one market at a time, then scale the same playbook globally. We are now opening the cap table to patient, mission-aligned investors who share our long-term, worldwide outlook.
What we are doing right now.
Everything below is live and working on adukoo.com today. We are not asking you to back a slide deck — we are asking you to back a working platform that we are now ready to grow responsibly.
The eight things buyers, sellers and admins love about Adukoo.
These are not roadmap promises — every feature below is live on adukoo.com today and is the reason daily users come back. We surface them publicly so investors can see exactly what the cap-table is funding.
Each feature ships with end-to-end test coverage (Playwright + pytest). The Admin dashboard exposes per-feature usage analytics so we can prove what works before we ask for the next funding tranche.
Two dedicated feeds inside our classifieds app — one for community, one for news.
Classifieds apps struggle with retention — buyers open when they need something, then vanish. Our answer is a two-feed engagement layer inside the same Adukoo app: Adukoo Gang is the community surface (post, comment, react, DM, follow, monthly auto-crowned Gang Leader); Latest Buzz is the curated news surface (300+ RSS sources auto-localised to the viewer's country + language). Users open Adukoo every day — not just when they're shopping — and every session is a shop-window walk-past for our Marketplace + Digital Stores.
Gadgets, health, politics, markets, movies, memes across US / UK / India (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi). Country + language tagged so every user sees their own region first.
Every month the top poster on Adukoo Gang is auto-announced with a one-line crown pill at the top of the page — zero manual moderation, zero admin work.
5-layer safety filter (keyword blocklist + source allow-list + Perspective toxicity + human review). DMCA-style takedowns within 24 h.
- Retention: daily-open habit forming without paid re-engagement — Buzz for news addicts, Gang for community — both funnel into the Marketplace + Digital Stores.
- Owned ad inventory: the in-house Adukoo Ads Platform serves sponsored placements natively between real news + memes with per-ad impressions / clicks / CTR + CSV reports for advertisers — no Google/Meta middleman.
- Social graph: Adukoo user → user follows + monthly Gang Leader seed every future recommendation, notification and creator-monetisation loop.
- Costs stay near-zero: RSS + open wires + signed-URL image storage + auto-expiry; no LLM calls per card.
Why our business model is unique.
OLX, Quikr, Facebook Marketplace are each one slice. Adukoo is positioning itself as the worldwide ads-posting platform + last-mile distribution network + brand-focused e-commerce layer + fintech & insurance rail — all under one identity. We plan to roll them out one layer at a time, only when each previous layer is profitable.
Worldwide from day one — deep in every market we touch. Adukoo's listings, Digital Stores and search work in 180+ countries today. We deliberately roll out the heavier layers (pickup-from-shop delivery, UPI-style payments, micro-credit) one market at a time, prove the unit economics, then export the same playbook to the next country: India → SE Asia, MENA, Africa, LatAm, Europe and beyond. Global in code, local in execution.
A worldwide marketplace built for the towns the big platforms ignore.
In emerging markets — Tier-3 / Tier-4 India today, the same fabric in SE Asia, MENA, Africa and LatAm tomorrow — corner shops still hold the customer relationship but have no inventory app, no delivery network, no online voice. Adukoo bridges that gap globally. We pick up from the local shop, drop at the customer's door. The shopkeeper keeps the sale, the customer gets convenience, and Adukoo earns on delivery + on-platform ad promotion. As we expand, the same model rolls out market by market.
No central inventory cost. The corner shop is the fulfilment node. We just connect the dots.
Customer orders on Adukoo → we pick from the nearest enrolled shop → we drop at home. Faster than Amazon-to-tier-3.
We earn a fair delivery fee plus on-platform sponsored placement income. Shopkeeper income stays 100% theirs.
Same model fits any country where corner shops outnumber chain retailers — SE Asia, MENA, Africa, LatAm.
The principles we will not compromise.
We have watched too many startups burn cash chasing GMV they cannot defend. We are choosing a different path.
Early testers & helpers.
Friends and family who quietly user-tested the Adukoo Android app and website — clicking every button, breaking every flow, and sending us the screenshots that made the product ready for everyone else. Thank you.
A heartfelt thanks from K Vani & K Bhanu Prakash — for the late-night bug reports, screen recordings, and patience with our many "just one more build…" moments.
Talk to the founders directly.
Send us a short note about your firm, your thesis, and the typical horizon you invest with. Every submission is read personally by K Vani & K Bhanu Prakash. We do not auto-reply — when there is a real conversation to be had, we will reach out ourselves. Everything you share stays strictly confidential.
