Chumbak Bangalore wants to become an International Design House

hink quirky and "Chumbak" comes wing mind.

The design company six years old, began to Bangalore by husband and wife duo, Vivek Prabhakar, 38, and Shubra Chadda, 35, offers handmade accessories for everyday life.

The founders sold their apartment Bangalore to finance your business in 2010. They began offering memories based on indigenous issues. He soon became an assortment of products - from telephone boxes jewelers laptop sleeves.

Chumbak, meaning "magnet" in Hindi, now covers 90 categories of stationery and souvenirs to clothing and furniture. The founders, who want to create an international design house of India, began with the simple idea of infusing contemporary designs in everyday objects.

After two rounds of funding (the first in 2012 was $ 2 million Seedfund India and the second was in May 2014 for an undisclosed amount), Chumbak is in talks with investors to a new round.

Before founding Chumbak, Shubra worked as an accountant with KPMG. Later he worked with artisans from Gujarat and later in marketing and communications for Nortel. Vivek began his career in marketing at Titan Industries and then went to work for Sun Microsystems, Motorola Mobility and Platinum Guild International.

The company, which has 120 employees, operates 15 large format and 11 pop-up stores across Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, Jaipur, Kochi and Chandigarh. Although the founders did not comment on incomes, news reports say the company aims to hit about $ 75 million over the next three years.

"Our goal is to distinguish young Indians - those who love the color and appreciate the design," says Shubra, who heads the origin, development and design. "Chumbak can be for anyone -. A tourist visiting India for the first time, an NRI visit on holiday, buying a mother for her home or friends who buy each other's product offering caters to everyone ".

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