Pre-seed · Open to everyone · 7-day sprint
The next big marketplace
will be live.
Bidly brings live video selling, auctions and real-time bargaining to India and Southeast Asia. Back it early — from $100 for a share of every sale, or $50,000+ for equity.
Example: back with $500 → at 1,000 sales a month you get $500/month until your $1,500 3X cap. Illustration only.
Led by solo founder Ashish Kekane · Questions answered personally at ashishkekane47@gmail.com
Early terms close when the round fills or the timer ends.
The product
Shopping that feels like a live show.
Retro High OG
Drag the pink button to bid
Static catalog shopping
- Edited photos, no way to ask questions
- Unverified sellers, fake reviews
- High return rates on cash-on-delivery orders
- Sellers selling over WhatsApp & Instagram DMs
Live, trusted, fun
- See the real product, live, before you buy
- Ask the seller anything in chat
- Auctions & flash drops create real urgency
- Verified sellers, UPI checkout, tracked delivery
For sellers
Go live from a phone. AI writes listings, clips highlights and sets starting prices.
For buyers
Follow favourite sellers, get alerts for drops, bid in seconds.
For Bidly
A small fee on every sale — the same model that powers the biggest live marketplaces.
Actual Bidly app design — live auctions, swipe-to-bid, verified sellers. The app launches after this round.
The Bidly 2,200
2,200 seats. Each one earns on every sale.
Every lit square is a real backer who signed. When all 2,200 light up, Revenue Share closes for good.
Seat #1 is next · $100–$10,000 per seat
The story
One founder. A whole team of AI. A marketplace for how Asia actually shops.
The shift
Shoppers in India and Southeast Asia already buy on live video — on Instagram, WhatsApp and YouTube — with no real marketplace built for it.
The founder
Ashish Kekane is building Bidly alone, using AI to do the work of a whole team: product, ops and even this fundraise run on agents he built.
The bet
China proved live commerce at enormous scale and Whatnot proved it in the US. Bidly is built for the next billion shoppers.
The ask
$220K to launch: sellers onboarded, live auctions running, and the first months of sales — in which royalty backers share from month 4.
Two ways in
Pick how you back Bidly.
Revenue Share
Earn from every sale on Bidly.
- Your own fixed $0.50 on every completed sale — not shared with other backers
- $100 to $10,000 per backer
- Strictly limited to 2200 backers — then it closes
- Monthly payouts from month 4 after launch
- Ends at 2X–3X back or 18 months, whichever comes first
Equity Partner
Own a piece of the company long-term.
- SAFE that converts at the next priced round
- No cap on long-term upside
- Quarterly founder updates, pro-rata rights
- Returns come from a future sale or IPO
Royalty calculator
Your own $0.50 on every sale.
Not a shared pool. Every backer gets their own fixed $0.50 per completed sale — it doesn't shrink when more people join. It stops once you hit your cap or 18 months, whichever comes first.
- 1Monthly payout5,000 sales × $0.50 = $2,500 / month
- 2If paid for all 18 months$2,500 × 18 = $45,000
- 3Your 3X cap$1,000 × 3 = $3,000
- 4You receive the smaller of 2 and 3$3,000 — payouts stop at month 2 when you hit 3X
Why two different numbers? The monthly payout is what you get each month. The most you can receive is the total over the whole term — capped at 3X your investment or 18 months of payouts, whichever is lower. Illustration only: sales numbers are your assumption; real payouts depend on real sales after launch.
Months counted from the first payout (month 4 after launch).
Patient capital
The big ones took years. Early backers waited.
Tap a company to see who backed it first, how it grew, and why it worked. Approximate, publicly reported figures — these are the rare winners; most startups never get here.
Bidly, a live-commerce marketplace for India and Southeast Asia where verified sellers run live video auctions and buyers swipe to bid. This pre-seed round funds the launch: product, seller onboarding and the first months of operations.
Honest fine print
Read this before you invest
High risk
This is a pre-seed startup investment — not a savings product, deposit, or get-rich-quick scheme.
No guarantees
Returns are not guaranteed. You could lose all of the money you invest.
Sales-dependent
Revenue-share payouts depend entirely on real sales after the platform launches.
Long horizon
Equity returns only come from a future sale or IPO.
Lock-up
Only invest money you can afford to lock up for years.
Legal review
Final terms are reviewed by legal counsel. No money is due until both sides sign.
Final terms are subject to review by the Company's legal counsel and applicable regulation. Please read every section above carefully before committing.