Indian couple’s roti maker gets $11.5 million investment

Singapore: An Indian-origin couple in Singapore has received a whopping $11.5 million as second round of investment for their innovative one-minute robotic chapati making machine, allowing them to expand the operations in international markets.

Pranoti Nagarkar, came up with a prototype for an automatic roti maker which won her the “Start-Up Singapore” competition in 2009.

Nagarkar and her husband Rishi Israni, who came on board as a co-founder a couple of years later, floated a product design company named Zimplistic to promote the roti maker brand called Rotimatic.