Lokal provides local news, information and classifieds for India. Since launching the app 10 months ago, Lokal has grown to 260,000 daily active users and is growing at 27% month over month. “The existing apps only focus on national and state level news,” the founder said. Otherwise, in order to get local news, they need to read a physical newspaper.

— Techcrunch

Poovayya & Co advised Behtar Technology Private Limited (Lokal) led by a team of partners Siddhartha George and Rohan Kumar, along with associate Sarena Beriwala.

Y Combinator was represented by its in-house legal team.

2019-08-20

Deal value: USD 150,000

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