The Yarn Bazaar, Swayam Fabrics Private Limited

Pratik Gadia is one of Season 1's most industry-native founders — not an outsider disrupting a traditional sector with a technology layer, but a third-generation textile insider who had lived in yarn lanes his entire life, knew every pain point from the inside, and returned from global education with the framework to solve them.Pratik Gadia belongs to a third-generation textile family that has traded yarn for 60 years. Born and brought up in the yarn lanes of Kalbadevi, Mumbai — India's original yarn trading district — his first job was restructuring his father's yarn trading firm at 22. He bootstrapped The Yarn Bazaar for 18 months before his Shark Tank appearance. After graduating from H.R. College, he studied entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon, then returned to India in 2018 and saw how small weavers still negotiated prices on WhatsApp without credit or logistics help. He started coding the MVP in January 2019, roped in childhood friend Dhaval as CTO

The Yarn Bazaar is India's first tech-enabled B2B managed marketplace for yarn — connecting spinners , traders, and weavers (buyers) on a single digital platform with real-time pricing, quality assurance through third-party certification, credit financing, and end-to-end logistics — transforming India's historically opaque, broker-dependent yarn trade into a transparent, tech-mediated ecosystem. The Yarn Bazaar is India's first tech-enabled B2B managed marketplace for yarn — connecting spinners (sellers), traders, and weavers (buyers) on a single digital platform with real-time pricing, quality assurance through third-party certification, credit financing, and end-to-end logistics — transforming India's historically opaque, broker-dependent yarn trade into a transparent, tech-mediated ecosystem. The client sends a message and a bot replies in the chat with possible options of quality, quantity, supplier, and price, according to the demand.