Sri Mandir

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Sr Mandir (app) is a digital devotional platform, developed by AppsForBharat, a tech-based startup headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Founded in 2020, the application has garnered over 40 million downloads and served nearly 1.2 million users between 2024 and 2025.

Sri Mandir falls in a new category, "Faith-as-a-service", which looks to digitalize India's Hindu spiritual market, which has been largely offline so far. It is estimated that India's Hindu spiritual or devotional market is worth US$ 40 billion or ₹3.02 trillion, representing 2.3% of India's GDP.

History

Sri Mandir was founded in 2020 and subsequently received angel funding from Tiger Global’s Scott Shleifer, DST Global’s Saurabh Gupta and Meesho’s cofounder Vidit Aatrey and Cred’s founder Kunal Shah. In 2021, AppsForBharat raised US$ 10 million in Series A funding for Sri Mandir from Elevation Capital, Sequoia Capital India, Beenext and Matrix Partners India.

In the latest round of funding, AppsForBharat raised ₹175 crore (nearly US$ 20 million) in Series C funding round, which was led by Susquehanna Asia Venture Capital.