Kiddo Raises ₹12.5 Crore Pre-Seed Funding Led by Campus Fund
With the new funding, Kiddo plans to expand its Delhi-NCR dark-store network, acquire more customers and invest in the technology and product infrastructure.
Gurugram-based baby-care quick-commerce startup Kiddo has raised ₹12.5 crore in a pre-seed funding round led by Campus Fund, with participation from strategic angel investors.
The startup plans to use the capital for customer acquisition, expanding its dark-store network across Delhi-NCR, technology and product development, and team building.
Founded by Ankit Kawatra, Kiddo is building a category-focused quick-commerce platform for baby-care and parenting products. The startup combines rapid delivery with life-stage-based product recommendations, aimed at helping parents find products suited to their children’s changing needs. The company currently operates in Delhi-NCR and plans to add more dark stores by the end of 2026.
Kiddo says it has curated more than 30,000 SKUs across baby essentials, fashion and other parenting categories since its launch. The startup is targeting households with higher incomes and says its model is designed around specialised assortment, age-based curation and faster access to products that parents may need at short notice.
The company also claims that its blended gross margin is significantly higher than the typical margins of horizontal grocery quick-commerce platforms. This is a company-reported claim and has not been independently verified.
Kawatra previously founded Feeding India, an organised food-recovery network that he scaled to more than 85 cities and 21,500-plus volunteers before it was acquired by Zomato in 2019. Following the acquisition, he served as a director at Zomato. According to the company, he was involved in operations that delivered more than 150 million meals across 190 cities during the Covid-19 period and through Zomato’s IPO.
Kiddo is entering a baby and kids’ commerce segment that has seen growing activity from specialised startups as well as established platforms. Gurugram-based OZi raised $6.2 million in a Series A round led by RTP Global in March 2026, while Bengaluru-based Peeko raised ₹67.4 crore in a Series A round led by Chiratae Ventures in August 2026, with existing investor Stellaris Venture Partners and angel investors also participating. The segment also includes established players such as FirstCry, while horizontal quick-commerce platforms continue to expand their baby-care and parenting product offerings.
According to a market report cited by Kiddo, India’s baby-care market was valued at around $31 billion in 2022 and is projected to reach $56 billion by 2029, representing a projected CAGR of around 13% to 14%. These figures are based on the market report cited by the company and should not be treated as independently verified estimates.