Swish Pilots Swish Go in Bengaluru to Expand Beyond Its Own Kitchens

Quick food delivery startup Swish pilots Swish Go that allows customers to order from third-party restaurants and cloud kitchens through its platform, marking a shift from the company’s vertically integrated model.

The pilot is currently live across select pincodes in Bengaluru. Swish Go is being positioned around lower-cost food delivery and is being advertised without packaging and platform fees. The startup has onboarded quick-service restaurant brands including Nothing Before Coffee, Mealy and Taaka Chinese for the trial.

Unlike Swish’s core offering, which operates through kitchens owned and managed by the company, Swish Go sources food from external restaurant partners. The new service does not carry Swish’s 15-minute delivery promise, with orders expected to take longer because they are fulfilled through third-party restaurants and cloud kitchens.

Founded in 2024 by Aniket Shah, Ujjwal Sukheja and Saran S, Swish initially built its business around controlling the food preparation, ordering and delivery process. The company operates neighbourhood kitchens located close to demand clusters, allowing it to maintain short delivery radii and offer freshly prepared food within minutes.

Swish has raised $78 million across four funding rounds. Its latest financing was a $24 million Series C round led by Bertelsmann India Investments in September 2026, with existing investors Accel, Bain Capital Ventures and Hara Global participating. The round followed a $38 million Series B in March 2026, led by Hara Global and Bain Capital Ventures, with Accel participating and venture debt from Alteria Capital and Stride Ventures.

The September fundraise came as Swish scaled its core business. The company said its monthly order volume had crossed one million, more than tripling since March. At the time, it was operating across roughly 50 pincodes in Bengaluru and Delhi-NCR and planned to use the new capital to expand its neighbourhood-kitchen network, enter new cities and strengthen its supply chain.

Swish’s core platform has also expanded its menu to more than 250 items across over 20 food categories, while the company has been building its network around short delivery radii and high kitchen density. The move into third-party restaurant delivery therefore gives Swish a way to broaden restaurant choice without applying its own kitchen infrastructure to every new offering.

Swish Go puts the startup closer to the marketplace model used by established food delivery platforms and other newer affordability-focused services. Rapido’s Ownly, for instance, operates on a zero-commission model for restaurants and was launched across Bengaluru after an initial pilot. In July, Rapido integrated Ownly into its main app, expanding its reach among existing ride-hailing users.

Swiggy has also been testing Toing, a separate restaurant-marketplace proposition aimed at budget-conscious consumers. The company has described Toing as an affordability-focused experiment, while its Snacc micro-kitchen experiment was shut down after Swiggy concluded that the category did not have a sufficiently attractive steady-state size relative to the operational complexity involved.

For Swish, Swish Go represents an experiment with a marketplace-style model alongside its existing full-stack business. The pilot will allow the company to test whether a broader restaurant selection and lower customer charges can generate demand while maintaining viable economics for Swish and its restaurant partners.

Swish has not disclosed a timeline for expanding Swish Go beyond the current Bengaluru pilot. The company is expected to use the trial to assess customer demand, restaurant participation and the economics of the model before deciding whether to expand the service further.