new delhi prashan agarwal the exceo of gaana and cofounder of online real estate marketplace proptiger teamed up with aniket lila exnexus venture partners to launch omi an online spiritual and wellness platform that aims to combine ancient vedic methods with newage lifestyleomi is available for download on google playstore it has received an undisclosed amount of funding from nexus venture and is looking to disrupt the spiritual wellness market in india that is valued at more than 10 billiontoday the world is facing a multitude of changes in our life in terms of the way we live we connect and this has had an impact on the spiritual devotional and mental wellbeing of people alongside the internet and digital payment penetration amongst the population is at an all time high and growing these dynamics make the market ripe for innovation in this category said cofounder ceo agarwalcommenting on the collaboration cofounder coo aniket said we are disrupting what is nearly a 4000year old market in india by bringing the best of what ancient india has to offer to millennials through a convenient private holistic and personalised platform omi will be your personal spiritual guide our mission is to make the world a happier place most indians are spiritual and this presents us with a blue ocean opportunitypratik poddar principal at nexus venture partners said were excited to partner with prashan and aniket this is a very deeply india specific problem with very large existing profit pools no one has addressed the market in a millennial centric way and made a productfirst scalable and trustworthy solution having known the founders for many years i am very excited to get a chance to work with them to crack this 10b market prashan is an alumnus of iit kanpur and also an isb alumnus before this he was the ceo of gaana indias largest music streaming service at gaana prashan was instrumental in growing the business from 10 million monthly active users to more than 180 million active monthly users he also raised more than 200 million from tencent to build gaana into a household brand prior to that prashan had cofounded proptigercom indias largest real estate transactions marketplace on the undisclosed amount of funding from nexus venture partners prashan said primarily the funding will be used to hire talent across product technology and operations we are looking to onboard leaders with passion for the stage and who want to help us build omi from day 0