The Bridge raises funding from Nithin Kamath’s Rainmatter by Zerodha
Nithin Kamath has a line he returns to often – “You don’t need to be lucky to build a business, you just need to stay in the game long enough to become lucky”. As the Founder and CEO of The Bridge, I had heard him say it in passing in early conversations, and it lodged itself long enough till it became hard to shake. Little did I know that in the months since that conversation, that very sentence would end up defining the eight years I had already spent building what is now a prominent platform for non-cricket sports in India, or that Kamath’s own venture arm would soon join my journey. That backing is now official. The Bridge, my eight-year-old sports media company, has raised a funding round from Rainmatter by Zerodha, the investment vertical of Zerodha, co-founded by Nithin Kamath. For the founder in me, the development arrives as validation of a belief I have carried since day one: that showing up, day after day, without giving up early, is itself a strategy. …




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