Episode 27, aired 11 Feb 2025 (“Education, Culture And Craft”)

GAON

Indian cuisine cloud kitchen

Did the deal close?

Nothing on record yetStill trading

We looked and found nothing either way. Indian filings can take 12 to 18 months to show up. This is not a sign that the deal fell through.

Trading: Still trading · Statutory filing in the last 24 months (thecompanycheck.com, 11 Sept 2026)

What we found: Entity match is medium, not high: invstt names Red Lemon Food Ventures Pvt Ltd as the Gaon vehicle and lists Shashank Shree in the founding team, which matches the registry directors, but MCA shows the founder as 'Alok Kumar' while the press calls him Alok Ranjan. Paid-up is 10 Lakh with no charges. The Rs 10 crore raise and the later restaurant shutdown are separate from the 80 Lakh shark deal. Confidence: medium.

Sources

Checked

11 Sept 2026

History

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Asked for: ₹ 80 Lakhs for 4% equity
Deal as aired: ₹ 80 Lakhs for 8% equity
Sharks in the deal: Vineeta Singh Anupam Mittal
Sharks on the panel: Namita Thapar, Aman Gupta, Vineeta Singh, Anupam Mittal, Peyush Bansal
On-air amount: ₹80 lakh

Legal entity: Red Lemon Food Ventures Private Limited
CIN: U56102HR2024PTC124194
Registry status: Active
Incorporated: 13 Aug 2024
Paid-up capital: ₹10 lakh
Last AGM: 31 Dec 2025
Directors added after the air date: none; Alok Kumar and Shashank Shree both appointed 2024-08-13
Charges: none registered
Source: thecompanycheck.com

Press: GAON shut its restaurant business in mid-2026, about two months after raising Rs 10 crore, and returned investor capital while pivoting to a QSR and D2C regional-foods model
Data vendor: The Rs 10 crore round was led by a UAE family office with institutional debt from Indifi, InCred, Velocity and Yes Bank at a Rs 50 crore valuation - no shark named

Every source we opened for this company, with the date we saw it.

Date	Kind	Source	What it shows
8 Sept 2026	press	issuewire.com	Headline only. Says Gaon shut its restaurant business two months after a 10 crore raise and returned investor capital. Page body could not be read.
8 Sept 2026	search-snippet	quickcompany.in	Name searches for Gaon returned no company matching the food brand.
11 Sept 2026	vendor	invstt.com	Company profile names 'Gaon @ Alok Ranjan [Red Lemon Food Ventures Pvt Ltd]', New Delhi, founding team of three Ranjan brothers plus Shashank Shree
11 Sept 2026	registry	thecompanycheck.com	Red Lemon Food Ventures Private Limited, U56102HR2024PTC124194, Gurugram Haryana, Active
11 Sept 2026	registry	thecompanycheck.com	Active, incorporated 2024-08-13, ROC Delhi, authorised and paid-up 10 Lakh, last AGM 2025-12-31, last BS 2025-03-31, directors Alok Kumar and Shashank Shree from 2024-08-13, no charges
11 Sept 2026	press	issuewire.com	GAON shuts restaurant business two months after a Rs 10 crore raise and returns investor capital
11 Sept 2026	press	sangritoday.com	Rs 10 crore led by a UAE family office plus institutional debt at a Rs 50 crore valuation

Operating-status evidence tier 2: Statutory filing in the last 24 months.

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