Shark Tank India is a Hindi-language business reality TV series broadcast on Sony Entertainment Television. The series with its third season is continuing to bask in its popularity amongst the Indian audience. The show revolves around new-age entrepreneurs delivering business pitches to an esteemed panel of investors aka the ‘sharks’. Based on their pitches, the sharks will determine whether or not they will invest in the presented ventures.
Shark Tank India Season 3 consists of a panel of judges that includes Deepinder Goyal, Founder and CEO, Zomato; Azhar Iqubal, Co-founder & CEO, Inshorts; Ritesh Agarwal, Founder & CEO, OYO Rooms; Radhika Gupta, MD & CEO, Edelweiss MF; Varun Dua, Founder, ACKO; Amit Jain, Co-Founder & CEO, CarDekho Group; Ronnie Screwvala, Co-Founder and Chairperson, UpGrad; Aman Gupta, CEO and Founder of boAt; Namita Thapar, Executive Director – India Business, Emcure Pharmaceuticals; Peyush Bansal, Co-Founder & CEO, Lenskart; Vineeta Singh, Co-founder & CEO, SUGAR Cosmetics and Anupam Mittal, Founder & CEO, People Group (including Shaadi.com).
Shark Tank India Season 3 Episode 52 Recap
The last episode of season 3 is another special episode that focuses on ecopreneurs – the entrepreneurs who have only one thing in mind and that is to see a better world and bring about a change that leaves our planet happy and undamaged. The Sharks in this episode are Aman Gupta, Namita Thapad, Anupam Mittal, Radhika Gupta and Azhar Iqubal.
Cool The Globe
This app tracks 100+ ways of being eco-friendly in our daily lives, which can help everyone pitch in to save our environment. The founder discusses the massive amount of carbon emissions that have been prevented thanks to everyone using the app and participating in their own ways to reduce their carbon footprint. The founders ask for Rs 25 Lakhs for 5% equity in the company with a vision to cool the globe together.
They then get into the business of how the app works and the organisation’s challenges and collaborations interest the Sharks immensely. As a pre-revenue company, the founder discusses the different ways in which they can make money by using the app in an organisational setting. In the end, Aman and Radhika are ready to invest and the founder agrees to a deal for Rs 25 Lakhs for 8% equity in the company.
Canvaloop Fibres
This bio-material science company converts agricultural waste into textile fibres and yarns using a zero-waste proprietary technology and uses 90% less water in comparison to cotton and polyester. hoping to bring about a revolution, the founders ask for Rs 1 Crore for 1.33% equity to bring about a revolution in the textile industry. The founders discuss the costs, the differences in traditional cotton and their production process as well. The Sharks are also left surprised with the sales that they already have commitments as well.
In the end, all the Sharks give offers to the founders and, in the end, all five Sharks give an offer of Rs 2 Crore for 4% equity, which the founders accept.
DigitalPaani
This startup is a wastewater management platform that tracks and manages a water treatment plant’s health and performs different tasks to keep the plant’s activities in check. Plus the treated water from these plants can also be recycled. The founders, in the end, ask for Rs 70 Lakhs in exchange for 1% equity. The founders get deeper into the problem and what the company is striving to solve.
The founders discuss how they are going about introducing different innovations within the company and how it is helping them tackle different problems. The Sharks are also interested to know the future plans and opportunities that the startup has and the founders give interesting answers that leave the Sharks impressed. After getting into the sales figures, however, all the Sharks opt out of the deal.
Shark Tank India Season 3 Episode 52 Review
I think this episode was quite educative but it’s always funny to see Sharks investing in fast fashion and environment-based products. I think it makes the experience for viewers a bit confusing on where the Sharks stand regarding this problem. Of course, at the end, this is a business show and capitalism reigns supreme so no hate there, but still – a little confused about the messaging!
Anyway, a very interesting episode that ends the season on a positive note and reminds us to look at ways to help the environment so that our upcoming generation doesn’t have to live in tumultuous times.
You can watch the Shark Tank India Season 3 episodes now on SonyLIV.