Cumma is a digital platform that helps startups discover, book, and access under-utilised innovation infrastructure such as co-working spaces, incubators, and technical labs. We enable facility providers—especially institutions and ecosystem enablers—to digitise and manage their spaces through a smart dashboard, QR-based access, and flat-fee booking tools. Startups benefit from transparent, location-based access to resources they often struggle to find, while facility owners can efficiently track usage, onboard users, and monetise idle capacity. Cumma is building the infrastructure layer that powers India's growing startup ecosystem.
Startup Description
Cumma’s vision is to digitise and democratise access to innovation infrastructure across India — helping startups find and book under-utilised incubators, co-working spaces, and technical labs, while enabling institutions to manage and monetise their facilities through smart tools. Backed by early traction and institutional MoUs, Cumma is building the infra layer powering India's next generation of builders. Cumma is founded by Gautham Palaniswamy, a startup ecosystem builder with 7+ years of incubation experience, along with Nethya Sri Subramani, a Computer Science graduate and ed-tech founder, and Brabasuthan R, a growth and operations strategist. Together, the founding team blends deep domain expertise, strong technical capability, and operational insight.
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Business Model
Cumma currently follows a flat-fee pricing model as part of our market penetration strategy, where facility providers pay a small fixed fee per successful booking (₹10–₹50) based on the type of space. This approach lowers the entry barrier for institutional and ecosystem partners, encouraging rapid adoption. As we scale and reach key milestones, we plan to introduce a hybrid model with optional commission-based bookings (up to 5% per transaction) for high-value or premium facilities. Our long-term revenue streams will include subscription tools, analytics dashboards, and premium listing features, all aimed at digitising and monetising innovation infrastructure access across India.
Customers
based in
India, South Asia
Business
Modal Type
Marketplace
Type of
Sales
B2B2C
Competitors
No Direct Competitors. Indirect Competitors - GoFloaters, myHQ, Qdesk. Cumma is the first platform focused on digitising under-utilised startup infrastructure — including incubators, labs, and institutional facilities. We offer smart management tools, QR-based access (UFI), and a flat-fee model that encourages usage across the public and private innovation ecosystem — a gap none of the above competitors address.
Teams
Gautham Palaniswamy
Founder and CEO
Brabasuthan Murugesan
CoFounder and CBO
Tell us a bit about how founding team knows
each other.
Gautham and Brabasuthan first connected when Gautham was leading the Periyar University Incubation in Salem, where Brabasuthan was one of the incubated founders. What began as a mentor-incubatee relationship soon evolved into a shared vision for building better infrastructure for startups. They later became colleagues at Sathyabama Technology Business Incubator in Chennai, where they worked closely on ecosystem programmes—strengthening their collaboration and eventually cofounding cumma together
Why did you decide to start this
company?
We started Cumma to solve the disconnect between under-utilised startup infrastructure and founders struggling to access it. Our goal is to digitise and unlock innovation spaces across India.
Are all the founders full-time on this
project?
Yes
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