Our story
Six of us,
one pearl.
We are a small team of six in Gurgaon making one thing: a single-serve vial of popping pearls with electrolytes. A popping pearl is a thin skin holding flavoured juice — it gives way the moment you bite it. We took one flavour, Hibiscus, and set out to get it right before we did anything else.
Batch one in development · join the launch list
still making it
Why a vial
One serving, sealed.
A tub asks you to commit before you have tasted anything — to a flavour, and to a quantity that then sits open in your fridge. A jar behind a counter asks a café the same question, with a scoop and a lid and something to throw away at close.
A vial asks for one serving. Twist the cap, tip it into anything cold, and that is the whole decision. It stays sealed until the moment it is opened, and the portion is decided by the pack rather than by whoever is holding the spoon.
Why Hibiscus
One flavour, done properly.
Hibiscus is floral up front and tart on the finish, and it holds its own in everything we wanted the pearls to go into — sparkling water, iced tea, lemonade, yogurt, cut fruit.
We would rather put one flavour on a shelf and stand behind it than launch a row of them and learn which ones we could not. More flavours come later, once this one is exactly what we meant it to be.
The team
Who’s making it
one lane each
Dashaan Singhvi
Product · Technology
Product and technology associate, working with Akaash.
Veer Tulyani
Brand · Marketing · Tech · Strategy
Branding, marketing, technology and business strategy, alongside the other five.
Samantha Ilore
Brand · Revenue
Brand and revenue. Owns brand direction and direct-to-customer sales.
Akaash Mudupaka
Product · Technology
Co-head of product development and technology. Owns the site, the store and the company OS.
Shreyas Desai
Product · Packaging · Money
Co-head of product development. Owns packaging and the money.
Mihika Jain
Story · Marketing · Legal
Story, marketing and legal. Owns the licence paperwork with Veer.
That is the whole story.
Batch one has not been made yet: every order is a pre-order, refundable in full until it ships.
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