Qoruz, a platform that helps brands work with content creators, has raised $500,000 in funding from The Chennai Angels. This is part of its ongoing pre-Series A round, which aims to raise a total of $1 million.
The funding round also included investments from top marketing experts, agency heads, and founders from the media and advertising industry.
Earlier, the Bengaluru-based startup had raised INR 4.5 crore in seed funding from Dexter Angels and the IIM Indore Alumni Fund.
Qoruz said in a press release that it will use the new funds to grow its AI technology and enter new types of markets.
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The company also plans to expand internationally, with a strong focus on the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Co-founded in 2014 by Praanesh Bhuvaneswar, Prabakaran B, Aditya Gurwara, and Priya Vivek, Qoruz is a creator intelligence and collaboration platform that helps brands discover, evaluate, and collaborate with creators to drive measurable business outcomes. The platform enables marketers to approach creator collaboration as a structured, data-led channel rather than an intuition-driven tactic.
“We’re not just building a platform, we’re building an ecosystem for the creator economy, where creators are central to how products are discovered, trusted, and bought. For this to scale meaningfully, it needs more than connections; it needs infrastructure. This capital allows us to deepen that foundation and bring operational precision to a space that has long operated on instinct,” said Praanesh Bhuvaneswar, co-founder and CEO of Qoruz.
Qoruz aims to reach $30 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) by 2026 and grow three times every year in terms of enterprise clients.
The company says that over 1,000 brands and agencies have already used its platform, including big names like Amazon, Flipkart, Jiostar, Dabur, L’Oréal, and Coca-Cola.
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