Hailing from a small town in Haryana, Gaurav Rana started working when he was 17. A year later, in 2012, he was working two jobs at one point—burning the night oil as an engineer with Volvo Eicher, and slogging through the day with his event management company Vocano Events.

Yatrikart, tech-enabled transit retail chain, has raised $450,000 in a Seed funding round from Shuru-Up's Digital platform and Artha Venture Fund. The newly raised fund will be utilized to expand the platform's infrastructure, improve technology and hire talent.

Yatrikart, a tech enabled retail chain for retailing on the go, raises $450,000 in a seed funding round with investments by Shuru Up and Artha Venture Fund. The startup aims to utilise the funds to expand infrastructure, improve technology and generate employment opportunities.

“Small hawkers and vendors getting evicted or penalised is quite common. But what many people don’t know is how an age-old profession like hawking and vending becomes illegal in India. The reason is that many hawkers are not registered with the government to sell goods inside trains and on the highways. This results in their frequent evictions, penalties, and absence of incentives,”