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Anveshan — Making Wood-Pressed Oil and Ghee Start to Finish From the Source

2026.03.26

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Anveshan, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bengaluru, is a D2C brand selling food sourced directly from farms. Its co-founders are Aayushi Khandelwal, Akhil Kansal, and Kuldeep Parewa. It buys cooking oil pressed cold in a wooden mill (kachi ghani), ghee made from buffalo milk, and raw honey directly from farmers, then sells them. The wooden-mill process has a low yield but keeps the aroma and color of the raw ingredient, which the company uses to explain its price gap with refined oil. By concentrating sourcing at the point of production and keeping processing and bottling in-house, it can point to the ingredients' provenance as the basis for its pricing. Revenue for FY2025 (year ended March 2025) was ₹77.5 crore (1 crore = 10 million rupees), up 33.3% from ₹58.2 crore the prior year; it has about 175 employees and has raised a cumulative $26.39 million across seven rounds.

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Anveshan is a D2C brand that buys wood-pressed cooking oil, ghee, honey, and similar products directly from farmers and sells them. Its selling point is cutting back the refining steps and finishing the products in a way close to traditional methods.

Company profile

Item	Details
Legal name	Anveshan
Year founded	2019
Headquarters	Bengaluru (Karnataka)
Co-founders	Aayushi Khandelwal, Akhil Kansal, Kuldeep Parewa
Revenue	₹77.5 crore (FY2025, the year ended March 2025; up 33.3% from ₹58.2 crore the year before)
Employees	About 175
Total funding raised	About 26.39 million dollars (7 rounds)
Listing	Unlisted

The wood-mill pressing method

Kachi ghani refers to a method of pressing seeds cold, without roasting or refining. Traditionally, a pestle-like rod is turned slowly inside a wooden mortar (kolhu) to crush the seeds without generating friction heat. Because no heat is applied, the oil retains more of the raw material's aroma and color, but yield is low — the same quantity of seeds produces less oil than a refining process would.

Refined oil circulates cheaply in India. The company leads with its traditional pressing method to explain the resulting price gap. Ghee made from buffalo milk and raw honey follow the same logic.

By concentrating sourcing at the point of production and keeping processing and bottling in-house, it can explain the provenance of its ingredients. Being able to show who produced the ingredient and where it was processed becomes the basis for the price.

Scale and funding

Revenue for FY2025 (year ended March 2025) was ₹77.5 crore, up 33.3% year on year. It has about 175 employees and has raised a cumulative $26.39 million, currently at the Series B stage. Having gone through seven rounds shows it has raised relatively small amounts of capital repeatedly.

Points for Japanese companies

Ghee and pressed oils are already handled as imported ingredients in Japan. Few businesses on the Indian side cover everything from the growing area through processing, so Anveshan is worth keeping in view as a partner that can account for the origin of its raw materials.

Importing ghee into Japan means it's treated as a dairy product, so quarantine conditions need to be checked. For pressed oil, food labeling requirements change depending on the raw material. In both cases, it's faster to first confirm whether the paperwork can be assembled before settling on quantities.