FreeStand
New Delhi, IN · Founded 2019 · 14 employees on LinkedIn · 9 known investors
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Freestand provides digital sampling strategies for D2C brands during the customer consideration phase, helping reduce cart abandonment and optimize customer acquisition costs through targeted sample offers and retargeting campaigns.
Also known as Free Stand Sampling Solutions Pvt. Ltd. · Freestand Pvt. Ltd.
Founders & leadership
FreeStand was founded in 2019 by Konark Sharma, Sneh Soni, and Kavach Chandra.
Investors · 9
Also in the syndicate · 7
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$400K disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2024
- $400KSeedMar 2024 · 5 sources
Nocking Point Advisors (lead), Venture Catalysts (lead), IIM Calcutta Innovation Park, IIM-Calcutta Innovation Park, SucSEED Indovation, SucSEED Ventures, Venture Catalysts++ | India's 1st Multi-Stage VC
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026FreeStand, operated by Free Stand Sampling Solutions Pvt. Ltd. of New Delhi, provides an omni-channel product sampling platform for FMCG brands. The platform is used to place physical product samples with targeted consumers across several channels: digital, events, retailer, ecommerce, paid shared box, and promoter-led sampling. The company frames sampling as a contextual placement exercise — for example pairing a jam sample with a bread purchase — with the aim of improving conversion and brand recall.
FreeStand positions its offering across the marketing funnel, with distinct awareness, consideration and conversion solutions, and publishes campaign case studies covering digital sampling programmes for brands including L'Oréal's CeraVe, Nivea (used for first-party data collection) and Piramal's Little's. Campaign execution relies on a network of sampling partners spanning delivery, quick-commerce, ecommerce, retail and advertising platforms, including Swiggy, Zepto, Flipkart, BigBasket, LoveLocal, Meta and Google.
Business model
FreeStand sells sampling campaigns and platform access to consumer brands, offering campaign demos and plans through a sales-led process, with terms referencing a SaaS agreement, data processing agreement and refund policy.
Traction
The company states it is the sampling partner of choice for over 40 brands, and cites campaign results including 10+ million unique customers reached in digital sampling programmes for CeraVe and Nivea, and 95.4% customer satisfaction on a Piramal Little's campaign.
Latest developments
In March 2024 the company announced a $400,000 seed round, with referenced coverage naming Venture Catalysts, Nocking Point and SucSEED Indovation Fund; it was also named in Google for Startups Accelerator India cohorts for women-led startups and is an IIM Calcutta Innovation Park incubatee.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography
Market position
Presents itself as a specialised omni-channel FMCG product sampling provider working with large consumer brands and major Indian delivery, retail and ecommerce platforms.
Breadth of sampling channels combined in one platform and contextual sample placement alongside complementary purchases, supported by partnerships with delivery, quick-commerce, retail and advertising platforms.
Technology
A sampling platform through which brands plan and run campaigns across digital, retail, ecommerce, event, promoter and shared-box channels, including digital sampling used to capture first-party consumer data.
Go-to-market
Direct, consultative sales via website calls-to-action such as talking to a sampling expert or creating a demo plan, supported by published client case studies, alongside partnership channels for sampling and distribution partners.
FMCG and consumer brands seeking to distribute product samples and gather consumer data in India; named client examples include L'Oréal (CeraVe), Nivea and Piramal (Little's).
Geography
Headquartered in New Delhi, India, at Rajouri Garden, with campaign delivery through Indian delivery, quick-commerce, ecommerce and retail partners.
Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsThe company announced a $400,000 seed funding round in March 2024; press coverage referenced on the company site attributes the round to Venture Catalysts, Nocking Point and SucSEED Indovation Fund, and describes it as approximately Rs 1 crore led by SucSEED Indovation.
$400K source ↗
Referenced press coverage identifies FreeStand as an IIM Calcutta Innovation Park incubatee.
Company site news links cite Google India's announcement of the first 20 women-led startups for its accelerator and the inaugural class of the Google for Startups Accelerator, India, including FreeStand.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
▸Research sources · 1
primary sources listed
- FreeStandfreestand.in · web
1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does FreeStand do?
- FreeStand is a Delhi-based omni-channel product sampling platform used by FMCG brands to place samples with targeted consumers.
- Who founded FreeStand?
- FreeStand was founded by Konark Sharma, Sneh Soni, Kavach Chandra in 2019.
- Who are FreeStand's investors?
- FreeStand's investors include SucSEED Indovation, Venture Catalysts.
- How much funding has FreeStand raised?
- FreeStand has disclosed $400K raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.
- Where is FreeStand headquartered?
- FreeStand is headquartered in New Delhi, IN.