Actor-investor Vivek Anand Oberoi, Venture Catalysts, 100 Unicorns, Nikhil Kamath, co-founder of Zerodha, and Tanmay Bhat led a $3 million seed fundraising round for the analog watch firm Rotoris.

Key Highlights

• Analog watch startup Rotoris secures $3 million seed funding from Kamath, Oberoi, and others.
• Funding will expand manufacturing, supply chain partnerships, inventory, and brand retail presence.

More than thirty founders, including Varun Alagh (Mamaearth), Gaurav Khatri (Noise), Siddharth Dungarwal (Snitch), Nitin Jain (OfBusiness), Vishesh Khurana (Shiprocket), Chirag Taneja (GoKwik), Akash Gupta (Zypp), and Arjun Vaidya (Dr. Vaidya's), participated in the round.

The money raised will be used to establish initial inventory, improve engineering procedures, extend supply chain alliances, improve manufacturing and assembly operations, and hire personnel from the product, design, and brand teams.

Additionally, it intends to open its first physical experience store in New Delhi, which will serve as a store and a venue for showcasing the brand.

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Rotoris, an engineering-led analog watch brand founded by Aakash Anand, Prerna Gupta, Anant Narula, and Kunal Kapania, focuses on mechanical movements and internal assembly. Anand used to scale the Bella Vita Organic fragrance brand.

The company intends to introduce its five collections—Auriqua, Monarch, Astonia, Arvion, and Manifesta—commercially in January 2026. The timepieces will have quartz and automatic movements, sapphire crystal, and 316L stainless steel casings. Each model will be numbered and limited, according to Rotoris.