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Ember raises $3.2 mn to lead clean-kitchen movement
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Tuesday, 16 September, 2025, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, Mumbai
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Ember announced a partnership with celebrated chef and entrepreneur Saransh Goila, who joins the company as partner and investor. This marks a significant step in the brand’s mission to reimagine and transform Indian kitchens through world-class design and innovation.
The announcement follows a $3.2 million seed round, the largest in India’s kitchenware category, led by HNIs, family offices, and existing investors. The round also brings in marquee backers such as Suhasini Sampath, co-founder, Yogabar and Apurva Salarpuria. It is among the fastest-growing startups in the kitchenware space and is on track to achieve a Rs 30 crore ARR within 12 months of launch.
Goila will lead the company’s Innovation Lab, a first-of-its-kind centre focused on experimenting, innovating, and developing solutions that address the unique challenges of Indian kitchens. His culinary expertise will play a pivotal role in shaping product R&D and consumer education.
Goila said, “Clean cookware is personal to me. Managing my mother’s health through an autoimmune condition showed me how deeply the ingredients, methods, and tools we use in our kitchens affect our well-being. India’s kitchens deserve better, but the gap is clear. The only way to bridge it is by designing the kitchen of the future — a huge opportunity to transform how the country cooks. It combines clean living, great design, beautiful aesthetics, and scalable innovation, and together we’re building kitchens that are smarter, cleaner, and better.”
Prior to its founding in 2024, it spent nearly two years in R&D to create a world-class product for Indian homes. Designed in California with award-winning product design firm Box Clever (under their venture arm, Box Garden Ventures) and manufactured by leading partners in Italy, it developed its proprietary Arcilla ceramic coating and Thermoclad technology, engineered specifically for the rigours of Indian cooking. The result is a range of cookware that is clean, high-performing, and built to last.
Himanshi Tandon, co-founder and CMO of Ember, said, “Saransh brings a rare and invaluable understanding of India’s diverse kitchens. His culinary insight, combined with our material science, will accelerate our ability to design products for the clean-kitchen movement in India. While our products already undergo rigorous global quality and performance tests and are certified by leading labs, building an in-house Innovation Lab allows us to develop and test solutions tailored to the modern Indian kitchen. With his credibility and reach, Saransh will champion this category and help families cook better with cleaner, high-performance materials.”
Siddharth Gadodia, co-founder and CEO, said, “At Ember, we aim to redefine India’s kitchenware market through design innovation and world-class technology. With proprietary material science, AI-enabled manufacturing, and global supply chains, we’re creating products that meet international standards and pave the way for new clean-living categories.”
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