Founded in 2018 and based in Bangalore, India, Woodzon is India’s largest B2B woodworking marketplace for raw materials, hardware, tools, machinery and allied products used in Home, Office & Commercial Interiors. Woodzon is a trusted community for people from woodworking industry to list, buy and discover unique products, services, technology, solutions, designs and updates around the world.

Whether wood for carpentry, decorative finishes for interiors, or a complete woodworking production line, Woodzon connects woodworkers to unique buying experiences, at any price point, from more than 1,000 categories and 50,000 products.

Furniture & interior industry in India is changing quite fast and shifting to innovative materials, hardware and machine.

Fast Facts

10,00,000+ Page Views Per Month

2,00,000+ Engaged Buyers’ Across India

50,000+ Active Offers Online

1,000+ Leading Brands Online

Our Vision

Our vision is to be the country’s best small business centric organization, empowering customers through an ecosystem of products, partnerships, technology and exceptional customer experience. The furniture industry in India is said to be growing at a rate of 30% CAGR and possesses around 100,000 registered woodware units and more than 200,000 artisans along with countless other woodworking related units in the sector.

The sector offers tremendous growth opportunities for existing woodworking industries and emerging entrepreneurs alike but the sector is highly unorganized and only about 15% is in the organized sector. In this current scenario, the key to success for any unit is machinery & tools for more volume at less wastage and quality hardware & materials offering better functionalities and finishes to final product.

Woodzon offers our customers the advantages offered by e-commerce, such as wider choice, wholesale price, better offers, credit facility, cash back among many others. While manufacturers of raw materials and tools see e-commerce as an opportunity to reach more customers to grow. Over the past few years, we’ve assembled a team to create a new platform offering that is products, technology, service, trends, and much more from woodworking industry.

Values: Innovation, Transparency, Customer Centricity, Trust, Flexibility, Technology

Mission: Our mission is to give small businesses access to a holistic support system

Leadership:

Binesh Viswanath, Founder & CEO

Binesh Viswanath is the founder, and CEO of Woodzon, which he started with Rinosh Jacob Kurian in 2015. Binesh sets the company’s strategy to connect people to unique buying experiences, and drives Woodzon’s mission to create a community where anyone can belong anywhere.

Prior to Woodzon, Binesh is best known for his 8+ years heading Woodnews as Vice President, the leading B2B Trade magazine for woodworking industry. He has been active with B2B Forums, Seminars and Trade Missions during his tenure with Woodnews. Binesh holds a Masters in Computer Application and Executive Program In Business Management from the IIM Calcutta.

Heading up the marketing and strategy side of Woodzon, Binesh believes in being involved in both the planning and execution stages of projects. With a keen eye for detail, he keeps the team on course and ensures our work is up to high standards. His background of marketing and design makes him a double threat who is able to recognize opportunities, make smart business decisions, and foster a creative environment for day-to-day operations.

Binesh is keen on taking high-level concepts and creating accessible solutions that are right for our clients’ project and budget. He is tirelessly exploring and absorbing information on the newest of technologies to keep Woodzon ahead of not just this curve, but the next one

Rinosh Jacob Kurian, CTO & Co-Founder

Rinosh loves looking for and helping build what’s next in technology. Rinosh comes to Woodzon after five years as an Enterprise Architect at UST Global, where he designed and built backend processes and web applications for clients. Rinosh has nearly 20 years of Digital Marketing experience and brings extensive Adwords, Analytics, Account Management and Customer Service knowledge to Woodzon.

Rinosh oversees Quality Provider Recruiting, the Quality Provider Community and Customer Lead Generation. Acknowledged for capacity to tackle challenging issues, analyze viable alternatives, and provide creative solutions. Strong work ethic, personal integrity, and channelled energies are major strengths in addition to independent work habits and the determination to conquer technical challenges. A resourceful, life-long learner, embracing knowledge as a tool for improved problem-solving effectiveness.

Rinosh commands the development efforts at Woodzon with full authority, handling primary application development and strategic decision-making surrounding that epic job. His extensive experience in web development and database design allows him to not only seamlessly support our creative efforts but also to come up with elegant and scalable applications.

Promoters/Strategic Partners:

Brigade REAP

Brigade Real Estate Accelerator Program (REAP) aims to help Innovators and Inventors utilise technology to create sustainable and scalable businesses in the Real Estate industry. Brigade REAP is focused on technology startups in areas relevant to Real Estate, Retail and Hospitality. The sectors range from IoT, Nano Technology, Cleantech and Renewable energy, Logistics and Visual Computing.

Fordaq SA

Fordaq manages the leading online market for wood professionals. More than 290,000 wood professionals (log producers, sawmills, veneer mills, panel producers, importers and large industrial users) have chosen to become members of the Fordaq network. Many of the largest wood companies in Europe are members of Fordaq. Fordaq has offices all around the world.

Advisory Board:

Benoit Nieuwenhuys

Managing Director, Fordaq SA

(Mentor, Visionary)

Amit Arora

CEO & Founder, Fusion Group India

(Strategic Advisor-Materials & Finishing)

Raghavendra N K

Head Marketing & Sales, Homag India Private Limited

(Strategic Advisor-Machineries)

Technology Partners:

AspireNXT

AspireNXT is a leading IT Solutions provider with offices across India, South East Asia, and USA. AspireNXT work fast, smart, and in sync with customers helping them achieve more across digital transformation, cloud, and workplace transformation.

Aspire Nxt was born in 2010 to help organisations with their IT requirements. Over the years, we have lived up to our promise and at the same time grown into an organisation that we are proud of. Our mission, today, is to deliver the best in the business by curating a culture of mutual success.

MEET THE TEAM:

Jacob George

Head Of Brand Activation

Jacob joins the team at Woodzon with diverse experience in digital and traditional marketing. From high-level strategic planning to hands-on endeavors like SEO and conversion rate optimization audits, he’s been bringing passion to his work crafting strategic digital experiences for more than 15 years. Jacob leverages his experience in industries which include events, seminars, B2B technology and more to combine creativity and best practices to bring clients a strategic mix of the best of both worlds.

Pradeep L

Head Of Customer Activation

Pradeep comes to the team at Woodzon with extensive experience in Real-Estate & Banking industry. He brings in an investigative nature to offer excellent customer service and engagement to the platform. His passion towards customer engagement is instrumental in the creation and maintenance of customer on-boarding programs and implementation & training initiatives while developing strong relationships with key customer accounts. Pradeep leverages data and insights to create and measure customer usage reports, leading to highest level of customer satisfaction. 

Karthik K

Head Of Operations

At Woodzon, Karthik believes in looking at consumer needs, creating measurable goals to meet those needs and designing a sales strategy that aggressively pursues those goals. When he gets a little time of the office, Karthik can be found interacting with customers, trying to predict the trends. He oversees the Club Membership and Group Buying, responsible for supporting customers and suppliers in over 10 cities and payments. Prior to joining Woodzon, Karthik spent six years at Woodnews.

Chandana Hegde

Manager Brand On-Boarding

Chandana leads Woodzon’s Brand Support across India, focused on making every single element of the supplier experience on Woodzon a memorable one. Chandana collaborate with multiple cross functional teams within the organisation to give best results for sellers.

Design & Communication

Blue Box Media

Media & PR

Blue Box Media organises media & PR initiatives at Woodzon, leading the user experience, insights, content and production design teams. Blue Box Media’s strength lies in the ability to combine strong strategic thinking with refreshing and relevant communication that addresses tangible business problems. They serve the full spectrum of marketing requirements, however big or small they may be. Whether it’s a brand, product, experience, or a way to grow… Blue Box Media caters to it!

Company Secretary

Nandu R Kumar

Spice Route Legal,

Spice Route Legal is one of India’s leading law firms. They advise domestic and international companies, investment funds, consortia, and governments navigate the complex legal landscape that govern their activities. With extensive global affiliations, they devise innovative and practical solutions to complex problems, backed by strategic insights and years of experience.

As a firm, Spice Route Legal is cross-jurisdictional, multi-disciplinary, and focussed on providing effective, efficient and practical transactional, advisory, and regulatory legal assistance.

External Auditor

R Natarajan

R.Natarajan & Co, Chartered Accountants

R.Natarajan & Co, Chartered Accountants is one of the leading Chartered Accountants Firm in Bangalore. It is managed and run by group of qualified Chartered Accountants, Company Secretaries, Corporate Financial Advisors & Tax Consultants. They provides audit services as per the requirements under Companies Act, Income Tax Act, Banking Regulation Act, NABARD, etc.Jacob Geor