Every consumer founder has a decision they keep turning over, and the fastest way through it is usually hearing how someone a few years ahead made the same call. So last Friday, in Mumbai, we put them in the same room. At D2C Unboxed, founders who have taken their brands from a website to shelves across the country sat alongside founders still building their first, trading notes on the calls that shaped their brands, the hard ones included. @AryamanBirla, Director at @AdityaBirlaGrp, joined Amit Anand, our Founding Partner, for a fireside on building new-age brands from within one of India’s oldest business houses, a perspective few in the room get to hear up close. Thank you to Shashi Kumar, Vedang Patel, Lavish Soni, @arindam___paul, and Aakash Anand for opening up about their journeys so generously. Detailed takeaways from the sessions are coming soon. @amitvedand • @BeriArpit68303 • @rishabmalik • @AmritRaj86

Four days to D2C Unboxed. On October 23, founders, operators and investors from across the consumer ecosystem come together in Mumbai for an evening of candid conversations on building brands that last. Registrations close soon. Request your invite here: luma.com/syyn2xzw @amitvedand • @rishabmalik • @BeriArpit68303 • @AmritRaj86 • @arindam___paul

Every consumer brand begins with a few early calls on what to build and who it’s for, usually made long before there’s any traction to confirm them. That’s the stretch we want to unpack at D2C Unboxed. Arindam Paul, CBO at @atomberg_tech, Aakash Anand, Founder of @Rotoris and BellaVita, and Lavish Soni, Founder & CEO of IATE Fashion, and former CBO of The House of Rare, will be in conversation with Rishab Malik, Managing Partner at @jungleventures. Together, they will unpack the lessons on taking a brand from zero to one, and how they’d approach those early years if they were starting today. Join us for an invite-only evening in Mumbai on October 23, alongside founders and operators building in consumer. Register here: luma.com/syyn2xzw @amitvedand • @BeriArpit68303 • @rishabmalik • @AmritRaj86

Some of India’s most loved consumer brands were built in categories that already had strong incumbents, and the decisions that shaped them rarely make it into the brand story. That's what we want to get into at D2C Unboxed. Shashi Kumar, Founder of @akshayakalpa and Vedang Patel, Founder of @thesouledstore will be in conversation with Arpit Beri, Managing Partner at @jungleventures, about the calls that shaped their brands and what they'd tell founders making them today. Join us for an invite-only evening in Mumbai on October 23, alongside founders and operators building in consumer. Register here: luma.com/syyn2xzw @amitvedand • @BeriArpit68303 • @rishabmalik • @AmritRaj86

This year has given us a lot to celebrate at Jungle, and this week we marked one more milestone: a new home in Bengaluru, designed for the next chapter of our journey with founders and partners. A big thank you to everyone who joined us for the inauguration. Seeing so many familiar faces from our journey under one roof made it a special evening, and we look forward to many more conversations here. @amitvedand • @BeriArpit68303 • @rishabmalik • @AmritRaj86

We’re thrilled to welcome Aryaman Vikram Birla, Director, @AdityaBirlaGrp, in conversation with @amitvedand, Founding Partner, @jungleventures, for a fireside chat at D2C Unboxed. For generations, the Aditya Birla Group has shaped Indian business. Today, it’s building some of the country’s most exciting new consumer brands, and Aryaman is right at the centre of that story. Come with your questions, because there’s so much here for every builder to learn from. A huge thank you to Aryaman for joining us. Mumbai, 23rd October. Save the date and register to join us: luma.com/syyn2xzw @amitvedand • @BeriArpit68303 • @rishabmalik • @AmritRaj86

For anyone building a fashion brand in India, The House of Rare shows what it takes to grow a premium label at scale. Lavish Soni spent a decade helping turn it from an early-stage venture into a nearly ₹950 crore business. His own route into retail was an unlikely one. He began in a cardiac hospital ICU, found his way to the shop floor as a store manager, and has spent two decades since learning the business from the customer up. Now, he is starting over with a new-age premium fashion house of his own. At Jungle's D2C Unboxed, he brings the lessons of scaling a premium brand. Meet him in Mumbai on October 23rd. Register here: luma.com/syyn2xzw @amitvedand • @BeriArpit68303 • @rishabmalik • @AmritRaj86

For many D2C founders, BellaVita is a case study in building a beauty brand online. Its founder, Aakash Anand, grew it out of his family's salon business in Gurugram into a profitable personal-care brand. With @Rotoris, he is now building a design-first mechanical watch brand, backed by top entrepreneurs and institutions. At Jungle's D2C Unboxed, he brings the lessons of building a consumer brand twice, in two very different categories. Meet him in Mumbai on October 23rd. Register here: luma.com/syyn2xzw @amitvedand • @BeriArpit68303 • @rishabmalik • @AmritRaj86

For many consumer founders, @arindam___paul's feed works like an open classroom on brand building. The lessons come from a decade at Atomberg, where he has led every customer-facing function, from sales and marketing to service, since joining the founding team in 2015. At Jungle's D2C Unboxed, he steps off the feed and into the room, for a conversation you can join. Meet him in Mumbai on October 23rd. Register here: luma.com/syyn2xzw @amitvedand • @BeriArpit68303 • @rishabmalik • @AmritRaj86 • @atomberg_tech