Episode 31, aired 17 Feb 2025 (“Young Entrepreneurs With Big Ideas”)
NearBook
Platform for buying and selling used books
Did the deal close?
No registered company foundTrading status unknown
We could not find a registered company behind this brand. A sole proprietorship cannot issue shares, so a deal would need a new company first.
- What we found
- Searched properly this time: thecompanycheck returns a Nearbook brand card for Jaipur (nearbook.app) and a Showmybook brand card for Jalore, but no Indian legal entity for either; searches on 'nearbook technologies' and on the founder name return nothing; nearbook.app carries no registration detail and Tracxn's legal-entity tab is empty. The one-round 46.1K USD Tracxn figure is roughly the 40 Lakh ask, which is consistent with the deal but is not entity evidence. Most likely a proprietorship, which would mean the 20 percent equity needs a new entity. Confidence: medium.
- Sources
- indianretailer.com · press, 8 Sept 2026
- quickcompany.in · search-snippet, 8 Sept 2026
- thecompanycheck.com · registry, 11 Sept 2026
- thecompanycheck.com · registry, 11 Sept 2026
- 4 more in the evidence log
- Checked
- 11 Sept 2026
How we decide each status · What changed recently
No company foundOn air
- Asked for
- ₹ 40 Lakhs for 20% equity
- Deal as aired
- ₹ 40 Lakhs for 20% equity
- Sharks in the deal
Anupam Mittal- Sharks on the panel
- Namita Thapar, Vineeta Singh, Anupam Mittal, Ritesh Agarwal, Kunal Bahl
- On-air amount
- ₹40 lakh
Company registry
- Legal entity
- Not found
- Source
- thecompanycheck.com
In the press and data vendors
Evidence log
Every source we opened for this company, with the date we saw it.
| Date | Kind | Source | What it shows |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Sept 2026 | press | indianretailer.com | Headline only, page returned 403. Says the Rs 40 lakh Shark Tank deal drove 300 percent growth. |
| 8 Sept 2026 | search-snippet | quickcompany.in | Name searches for NearBook returned no matching company. |
| 11 Sept 2026 | registry | thecompanycheck.com | Brand card only: Nearbook, Jaipur, nearbook.app; no Indian legal entity row |
| 11 Sept 2026 | registry | thecompanycheck.com | Brand card only: Showmybook, Jalore, showmybook.co.in; no legal entity row |
| 11 Sept 2026 | registry | thecompanycheck.com | No results found |
| 11 Sept 2026 | vendor | nearbook.app | Site returns no legal entity name, CIN, GST or registered address |
| 11 Sept 2026 | vendor | tracxn.com | Tracxn: Jaipur, founded 2020, about 46.1K USD over one round; no legal entity named |
| 11 Sept 2026 | press | adgully.com | Profiles founder Sanjay Modi and the Jaipur base |
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