B2B tech-enabled and managed marketplace for specialty chemicals, Covvalent, has raised $4.3 Mn in a seed funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners. Angel investors and founders such as Vishal Chaudhary (cofounder, Zetwerk), Ramakant Sharma (founder, Livspace), Rajesh Yabaji (founder, BlackBuck), Rehan Khan (MD, MSD India Region), Jawaid Iqbal, Anubhav & Ankit Singh (cofounders, Rupifi) and Kaushal Soparkar (founder, Meghmani Group) also have participated in the Covvalent funding round.
Covvalent will use the funds to build its product and business teams and sharpen its technology tools and a supplier’s output, the company said in a press release.
Founded in 2022 by Sandeep Singh and Arush Dhawan, Covvalent offers a range of pigments, resins, additives, binders and ploymers across various industries.
According to a report, the global specialty chemical market is $800 billion and growing at approximately 6% annually.
Nexus Venture
Nexus focuses on funding startups in sectors such as enterprisetech, consumer internet, healthcare, media, software, big data analytics and fintech among others. Its portfolio companies include Snapdeal, Shopclues, Delhivery, Rapido, Unacademy, Pratilipi, Olx, Postman and Yolobus among others. Its notable investments this year include Phyllo, Jify, Vahak, Neuron7.ai and DAOLens. Employees volunteering platform Goodera and signal-based trading platform Investmint recently raised funding from the VC fund.
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