Building India's most complete hyperlocal super app — one platform for food, grocery, medicine, dining, and local shopping.
Company Name: ZARGAM Private Limited
Brand: Famished
Founded: 2025
Headquarters: Nautanwa, Uttar Pradesh, India
Founder: Sameer Quraishi
Sector: Hyperlocal Delivery / Quick Commerce
Verticals: Food, Grocery (Instamart), Medicine, Dine Out, Local Shops
Stage: Pre-Seed / Seeking Seed Funding
Status: Live in 10+ cities, fully built platform
Legal Entity: ZARGAM Private Limited (CIN: Applied)
India's hyperlocal delivery market is at an inflection point, driven by smartphone penetration, UPI payments, and changing consumer behavior.
India's hyperlocal delivery market is fragmented. Consumers need separate apps for food (Swiggy/Zomato), grocery (Blinkit/Zepto/Instamart), medicine (Tata 1mg/PharmEasy), and dining (Dineout/EazyDiner). This creates app fatigue, scattered loyalty points, and multiple delivery experiences.
Famished solves this by bringing all verticals into a single super app with unified wallet, unified tracking, unified loyalty, and consistent user experience.
Key insight: Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities remain largely underserved by existing platforms. Famished is built specifically for the Indian mass market — lightweight apps, UPI-first payments, multilingual support, and affordable delivery.
Diversified revenue streams across multiple verticals, designed for sustainable growth and unit economics.
Commission from restaurant partners on each order. Tiered pricing based on order volume. Zero commission on direct/cash orders to incentivize restaurant growth.
Margin on grocery items sold through dark stores. Direct sourcing from manufacturers and wholesalers. Dynamic pricing on high-demand items.
Commission from pharmacy partners. Premium on urgent medicine deliveries. Subscription revenue from monthly medicine refill plans.
Premium subscription with free delivery, exclusive discounts, priority support. Recurring monthly/annual revenue with high retention.
Sponsored listings, promoted restaurants/stores, banner advertising within the app, and targeted promotional campaigns for partners.
Revenue from wallet float, payment gateway margin on transactions, and premium withdrawal features for delivery partners.
The sole architect and builder behind the entire Famished ecosystem — from concept to production, across backend, frontend, mobile, and infrastructure.
Sameer Quraishi is the founder and sole developer behind the complete Famished ecosystem. From Nautanwa, Uttar Pradesh, he conceived, architected, and built the entire platform — including the ASP.NET Core backend, Angular web apps, React Native mobile apps, SQL Server database, AI-powered routing engine, and cloud infrastructure — entirely by himself.
The journey began with a vision to build India's most complete hyperlocal super app. Starting from scratch in early 2025, Sameer designed the system architecture, wrote every line of code, set up the deployment pipeline, and brought Famished from concept to a live, production-ready platform serving customers across 10+ cities — all within months, working independently.
Initial guidance on backend architecture was provided by his older brother, a professional software engineer, who helped outline the technology stack and clean architecture principles. Every subsequent implementation — from the REST API and database schema to the mobile apps and real-time tracking — was built by Sameer himself.
This level of full-stack execution — spanning backend (C#/.NET), frontend (Angular/Tailwind), mobile (React Native), infrastructure (Vercel/Azure), and real-time systems (SignalR) — by a single founder is exceptionally rare and demonstrates deep technical capability, product vision, and relentless execution.
Vision: To make Famished the default super app for every Indian — the single platform where you order food, buy groceries, get medicine, book dining, and shop local.
Mission: Democratize hyperlocal delivery across India by building a unified, affordable, and reliable platform that serves Tier-1, Tier-2, and Tier-3 cities equally.
Building Philosophy: Clean architecture, production-ready code, no technical debt, complete ownership. Every component is designed to scale to millions of users without rewrite.
Why Famished: India deserves a super app built by someone who understands the local market, the infrastructure constraints, and the user behavior — not a copy of Western models. Famished is built for India, by an Indian founder, from the ground up.
Enterprise-grade architecture designed from day one for 10 million+ users. Every component is production-ready and battle-tested.
ASP.NET Core 10 API with Clean Architecture. CQRS with MediatR, FluentValidation, Entity Framework Core, SQL Server 2022. JWT authentication with refresh token rotation. Hangfire for background jobs. Serilog for structured logging.
Angular 20+ with standalone components, Angular Material, Tailwind CSS. Six separate web apps: Customer Web, Admin Panel, Restaurant Panel, Grocery Panel, Rider Panel, and Shared Library. Production builds optimized for performance.
React Native 0.76 (bare CLI) for Customer, Rider, and Restaurant apps. Shared component library. Expo-free architecture. JWT auth with secure storage. Real-time tracking via SignalR.
SignalR hubs for live order tracking, rider location, and status updates. Redis caching for sub-millisecond data access. WebSocket-based real-time notifications across all platforms.
AI-powered search across all verticals with natural language processing. Machine learning routing engine for optimal rider assignment. Demand prediction for dark store inventory management.
TLS 1.3 encryption, PCI-DSS compliant payments (Razorpay/PhonePe/Stripe), JWT with refresh token rotation, rate limiting, FluentValidation, ASP.NET Identity, GDPR-compliant data practices.
Key milestones achieved by the Famished platform since inception.
Seed funding will accelerate our growth across technology, operations, and market expansion.
While competitors focus on single verticals, Famished offers a unified super app experience with faster delivery and broader coverage.
| Feature | Famished | Swiggy | Zomato | Blinkit | Zepto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food Delivery | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| 10-Min Grocery | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Medicine Delivery | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Dine Out Booking | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Local Shops | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Unified Wallet | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Key Differentiator: Famished is the only platform that combines all five verticals — food, grocery, medicine, dining, and local shops — into a single app with unified wallet, unified loyalty, and consistent delivery experience. No other platform offers this complete ecosystem.