A family of ventures
Considered ventures, made with care.
Vitana Ventures is home to a small family of independent businesses: Kerala pickles and preserves in single-serve jars, superhero stories for young readers, a calmer relationship with screens, clearer personal finances, mornings that begin with a kind word, and the world's news in a snip.
The name
Vitana Ventures
Empowering Vision, Fueling Growth
From Sanskrit, vitāna (वितान) means a canopy: a covering spread wide over many. We read it as the shelter under which each venture grows.
Vitana Ventures is the parent company. Its job is to give every venture the capability it needs, so each one can concentrate on its own craft and its own customers. One canopy, many ventures.
- Shared standardsOne set of rules for quality, plain claims, privacy and children's safety, kept in the group headquarters.
- Finance and reportingA single way of budgeting, tracking and reporting across the group.
- Brand and designShared design standards and components, so each venture can look like itself and still feel like family.
- Technology and documentationCommon tools, schemas and release notes that every venture can build on.
Each venture keeps its own name and audience. Our founding idea stays in the background of everything we make: empowered capability, united across cultures.
The ventures
Five industries, one standard.
Seven ventures across five industries, led by food. Each will launch when it is ready, and not before. See them by industry.
A drop of Kerala, in thirty grams
Pickles, chutneys and preserves in single-serve glass jars for hospitality, gifting and trade. First jar: Spicy Lime Pickle.
Discover ThulliTwo dishes, cooked fresh
An online-only cloud kitchen in Bangalore: a Middle Eastern chicken kebab and an Irish-style chicken stew, delivered, in strictly limited portions each day.
Discover Kebabs and Stew
Superheroes who come home for dinner
Graphic novels for young readers and their families, starting with The Family: a lawyer, a doctor and their two gifted children.
Meet KnotbridgeThe world, in a snip
Live news on a map. Choose a continent, a country or an Indian state and read today's stories in a couple of lines, with every source linked.
About SnippetsTime away from screens, rewarded
A calm, parent-led app. You approve each screen-free session, and the app adds up the points and rewards you set. No ads, no tracking.
For parentsClarity for your money
A private, considered way to keep track of what you have and what you owe, and how you are paying it down.
Be the first to knowWake to words that lift you
A wellbeing app that wakes you with a motivational quote read aloud, in the voice you choose, sends gentle reminders through the day, and plays rain, sea or birdsong to help you wind down at night.
Get early accessHow we work
Principles we keep.
We would rather make fewer promises and keep all of them.
- 01
Craft before scale
We perfect one jar, one story, one screen before we make more of them. Growth follows quality, never the other way round.
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Plain, honest claims
We say what we know and say nothing we cannot stand behind. Where something is not ready, we say so.
- 03
Privacy as a default
We collect only what a service needs. Children's spaces carry no advertising, analytics or tracking.
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Rooted, and open to the world
Our ventures begin at home in India and are made to welcome anyone, in more than one language.
Contact
Begin a conversation.
For trade and hospitality enquiries, corporate gifting, partnerships or press, we would be glad to hear from you.