Startup Profile

Airmeet

Legal entity: Airmeet Technologies Private Limited

Event-led engagement platform for virtual and hybrid events

SaaSSeries BB2B SaaS· Bengaluru, Karnataka· Est. 2019Website ↗
Airmeet is a virtual and hybrid events platform founded in Bengaluru in 2019 that lets organisations host webinars, conferences and community meetups online. It grew rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic, raised around $50 million from investors including Accel, Sequoia Capital India (Peak XV), Redpoint Ventures and Prosus, and later cut its team sharply as demand for virtual events fell after the
Funding raised
₹415.00 Cr
Total disclosed
Latest valuation
₹415.00 Cr
Most recent round
Latest revenue
₹75.80 Cr
FY FY22
Employees
FY FY22

Founders

  • Lalit Mangal

    Co-founder and CEO of Airmeet. Previously co-founder and CTO of CommonFloor, an online real estate platform later acquired by Quikr. Computer science graduate from IIT Roorkee. He started Airmeet after struggling to meet enough startups at a crowded in-person expo in Bengaluru, which sparked the idea of reimagining events online.

  • Manoj Singh

    Co-founder of Airmeet and a former CommonFloor executive who joined Lalit Mangal in starting the company in 2019.

  • Vinay Jaasti

    Co-founder of Airmeet and a former CommonFloor executive. He later served as CEO of Airmeet.

Funding rounds

  1. Series B2022-02-08₹290.50 CrLed by Prosus Ventures
  2. Series A2020-09-15₹99.60 CrLed by Sequoia Capital India
  3. Seed2020-03-08₹24.90 CrLed by Accel India

Financials

MCA / self-reported
Fiscal yearRevenueProfit / (Loss)Employees
FY22₹75.80 Cr+₹5.00 Cr

The full story

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Timeline

  1. 2024-09Third restructuring, 80% of tech team cutAirmeet undertook a third restructuring in roughly 16 months, cutting around 80% of its tech team as it refocused the company.
  2. 2024-03Second restructuring, around 20% laid offAirmeet laid off about 20% of its workforce, roughly 30 employees, in its second restructuring within a year.
  3. 2023-05Layoffs of around 30% of workforceAs demand for virtual events fell after the pandemic, Airmeet cut around 30% of its workforce, affecting at least 75 employees, in a cost-cutting exercise.
  4. 2022-02-08$35M Series B led by Prosus VenturesAirmeet raised a $35 million Series B led by Prosus Ventures with Sistema, Sequoia, RingCentral Ventures, KDDI and others, taking total funding to about $50 million.
  5. 2020-09-15$12M Series A led by Sequoia and RedpointAirmeet raised a $12 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital India and Redpoint Ventures, valuing the roughly one-year-old startup at about $50 million.
  6. 2020-03-08$3M seed round led by Accel IndiaAirmeet raised a $3 million seed round led by Accel India with Venture Highway, just as the COVID-19 pandemic drove demand for online events.
  7. 2019-06Airmeet founded in BengaluruLalit Mangal, Manoj Singh and Vinay Jaasti, several of them former CommonFloor executives, founded Airmeet as a virtual events and meetup platform.

Data sources

  • seed-list + Wikidata · last fetched 2026-05-28
  • Wikidata · last fetched 2026-05-28
  • favicon · last fetched 2026-05-31
  • Entrackr · last fetched 2026-06-01
  • YourStory · last fetched 2026-06-01
  • YourStory · last fetched 2026-06-01
  • BusinessWire (Series A) · last fetched 2026-06-01
  • BusinessWire (Series B) · last fetched 2026-06-01
  • Inc42 (layoffs 30%) · last fetched 2026-06-01
  • Inc42 (layoffs 20%) · last fetched 2026-06-01
  • Inc42 (80% tech team) · last fetched 2026-06-01
  • Tracxn (Airmeet Networks Pvt Ltd) · last fetched 2026-06-01
  • Mike Malatesta podcast (founder background) · last fetched 2026-06-01
Updated 2026-06-01