Partnerships that
move the needle.

We help D2C brands, consumer apps, and founder-led businesses grow through the power of strategic partnerships — from strategy to signed deals.

200+Partnerships in 2 years
₹3Cr+Revenue for clients
18+Brands worked with
10+Years of experience

You're building something great. But growth shouldn't depend on ads alone.

Most brands hit a wall. They've got a great product, a loyal base, and big ambitions — but traditional marketing is expensive, crowded, and slow to compound.

The brands that break through? They partner smart.

The right partnership gets your product in front of the right audience, through the right channel, at the right moment — without the cost of acquisition that comes with paid media.

That's exactly what we build for you.

Strategy. Execution. Scale.

Three things most brands can't do alone. We bring all three.

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Strategy

We map out your partnership universe — identifying the best brands, platforms, and channels to reach your audience.

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Execution

From pitch to signed deal, we handle the outreach, negotiations, and agreement building end-to-end.

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Scale

We set up the systems, teams, and processes so partnerships become a repeatable growth engine — not a one-off win.

Trusted by India's most exciting brands

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Just Lil Things
Curious Collective
Mangalam

Real brands. Real results.

D2C · Food & Wellness

Eat Healthy With Epigamia

Took Epigamia Greek Yogurt from two channels to dozens — co-working spaces, airlines, hotels, gyms, and quick commerce.

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Brand Licensing · Lifestyle

India Meets the Bunny

Built PLAYBOY India's brand licensing strategy from scratch — with Urban Monkey, Paul & Mike, Noble Sculptor, and BLUORNG.

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D2C · Gifting

Growing The Wishing Chair

Launched on Instamart, Zepto, and Blinkit. Placed in 25+ décor stores. Executed collabs with Smoor and Juicy Chemistry.

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Ready to make partnerships your growth engine?

Whether you're a founder exploring partnerships for the first time, or a growing brand ready to build a full partnerships function — we'd love to talk.

What we do

Everything you need to build a partnerships machine.

We don't do one-size-fits-all. Every engagement is shaped around your brand, your goals, and where you are in your growth journey.

01

Pitch Building & Strategy

Before you approach a single partner, you need to know your story, your value, and why someone should say yes to you. We build the strategic foundation: your partnership pitch, your deck, and a clear articulation of what you bring to the table.

  • Partnership pitch creation
  • Pitch deck design & copy
  • Go-to-market strategy
  • Team training & negotiation
02

Identifying Your Partner Universe

Who should you be partnering with? The answer isn't obvious — and the wrong partnerships waste time, money, and goodwill. We research and map out the full universe of brands, platforms, and channels that align with your goals.

  • Target market mapping
  • Brand universe identification
  • Competitive benchmarking
  • Channel prioritisation
03

Executing Partnerships End-to-End

This is where most brands struggle. The outreach, the follow-ups, the negotiations, the paperwork — it's time-consuming and requires relationships and experience to navigate well. We handle the full cycle: from first contact to go-live.

  • Network building
  • Lead generation & outreach
  • Pitching & follow-ups
  • Agreement building
  • Negotiations
  • Closure & go-live
04

Setting You Up for Long-Term Success

One great partnership is a win. A partnerships function that keeps delivering? That's a growth engine. We help you set up the team, processes, and playbooks to make it sustainable.

  • Team building & hiring
  • Training & onboarding
  • Process & playbook creation
  • Ongoing advisory

Industries of expertise

D2C Lifestyle Brands
Consumer Apps (FinTech, Consumer Tech)
E-Commerce Platforms & Marketplaces
Brand Licensing & Collaborations
Bespoke Partnerships (360° consulting)

Not sure which service is right for you?

Let's have a 20-minute call and figure it out together. No commitment, no hard sell.

Our work

Real brands. Real partnerships. Real results.

Every engagement is different — but the goal is always the same: partnerships that move the business forward.

Epigamia
D2C · Food & Wellness
epigamia
The Challenge

Epigamia had a great product and strong retail presence — but needed new points of sale beyond traditional grocery and modern trade channels.

What We Did
  • Co-working spaces: WeWork, Awfis, The A-Club
  • Corporate tie-ups: Sodexo
  • Airlines: Taj SATS, Vistara, IndiGo
  • Hotels: IHCL Pan India, Holiday Inn Pan India
  • Cafes & Restaurants: Starbucks, Bombay Canteen, Bayroute
  • Quick commerce: Swiggy, AmazonFresh, BigBasket, Instamart, Milkbasket
  • Co-developed a sugar-free yogurt for Cult Gyms Pan-India
The Result

Epigamia products went from two channels to dozens — reaching customers at work, on flights, at the gym, and on their phones.

Zomato Book
Consumer Tech · FoodTech
zomato
The Challenge

Launch and scale Zomato Book — a reservations booking and management product — in Mumbai's complex restaurant ecosystem.

What We Did
  • Built a customised pitch and deck tailored to the Mumbai market
  • Pioneered the first-ever paid sale of Zomato Book globally — The Bombay Canteen
  • Gathered partner feedback on product and pricing
  • Built and trained a team of 5 to scale the partnerships engine
The Result

Zomato Book went from zero to a functioning, scalable partnerships engine in Mumbai — with a team, a process, and a track record.

PLAYBOY India
Brand Licensing · Lifestyle
PLAYBOY
The Challenge

Craft an India-specific brand strategy and identify the right brand licensing partners for PLAYBOY's entry into the Indian market.

What We Did
  • Urban Monkey — Premium Streetwear
  • Paul & Mike — Premium Confectionery
  • Noble Sculptor — Premium Streetwear Jewellery
  • BLUORNG — Premium Streetwear

Each collaboration covered the full journey: conceptualisation, product development, marketing campaigns, and collateral.

The Result

PLAYBOY entered India with a curated set of partners that reflected the brand's positioning — with products and campaigns that resonated with Indian audiences.

The Wishing Chair
D2C · Gifting & Lifestyle
THE WISHING CHAIR
The Challenge

The Wishing Chair needed to expand beyond its own website and exclusive brand outlets, reaching new audiences creatively.

What We Did
  • Launched on quick commerce: Instamart, Zepto, and Blinkit
  • Placed products in ~25 concept & décor stores across India
  • The Wishing Chair × Smoor for Mother's Day
  • The Wishing Chair × Juicy Chemistry for Diwali
The Result

The Wishing Chair went from a two-channel brand to a widely distributed, collaboratively marketed one — reaching customers wherever they shopped.

LXME
FinTech · Women's Finance
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The Challenge

LXME — India's first financial platform built for women — needed a high-impact partnerships engine to drive LXME Pay adoption, build a rewards ecosystem, and expand distribution.

What We Did
  • Onboarded Myntra (9M monthly transactions) and GoKwik at zero cost
  • 64 live merchants, 500+ in onboarding pipeline (6–7M monthly transaction base)
  • Rewards partners: SUGAR Cosmetics, Pantaloons, Nykaa Fashion, OYO, Fittr, Quench, 1868 by Tata Tea
  • Distribution: Mumbai Metro, Zippee, Xiaomi
  • 17+ strategic partnerships enabled in total
The Result

LXME went from limited merchant acceptance to a growing multi-category partnerships engine with a combined monthly transaction base in the tens of millions.

Want results like these?

Let's talk about what a partnerships strategy could unlock for your brand.

About us

We're PartnerPod. And we believe partnerships are the most underrated growth lever in business.

How it started.

PartnerPod was born out of a simple observation: the brands that grow fastest aren't always the ones with the biggest ad budgets. They're the ones that know how to build the right relationships.

Vishakha Acharya spent a decade on the inside — at Zomato, Epigamia, and CRED — watching how strategic partnerships could unlock distribution, trust, and revenue in ways that paid channels simply couldn't replicate. She saw it firsthand: a well-executed partnership could do in weeks what a marketing campaign took months and millions to achieve.

But she also saw how hard it was for most brands to do this well. Partnerships require a specific kind of thinking — part strategy, part hustle, part relationship-building — and most teams don't have the bandwidth, the network, or the playbook to make it work consistently.

So she built PartnerPod. A lean, senior team that plugs into your business and builds the partnerships engine you don't have time to build yourself.

Today, PartnerPod works with D2C brands, consumer apps, and founder-led companies across India — helping them use partnerships to grow faster, reach further, and build something that lasts.

The people behind the partnerships.

Vishakha Acharya
Vishakha Acharya
Founder & Partnerships Enabler

Vishakha has spent a decade building some of India's most exciting companies — Zomato, Epigamia, and CRED. Her superpower is connecting the dots between brands, audiences, and opportunities that aren't obvious until someone with the right lens looks closely enough.

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Yash Prasad
Yash Prasad
Senior Partnerships Manager

Yash has spent a decade building user-first products across FoodTech and FinTech. At Zomato he launched Ads, Table Reservations, and Gold. At CRED he brought Store, Travel, and Pay to market. At PartnerPod, he leads partnership execution end-to-end.

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Ninad Pote
Ninad Pote
Junior Partnerships Consultant

Ninad joined PartnerPod with a sharp eye for research and a knack for building relationships from scratch. He supports the team across partnership identification, outreach, and execution — bringing energy, curiosity, and depth to every brief.

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Want to work with us?

We're always excited to meet founders and brand builders thinking seriously about partnerships.

Contact

Let's
Talk.

Whether you have a brief, a question, or just a hunch that partnerships could unlock something for your brand — we'd love to hear from you.

Get in touch directly

Vishakha Acharya — Founder
vishakha@partnerpod.co+91 98332 18319

Mumbai, India
Working with brands across India & beyond.

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