Aakash Gupta (Zoff Foods)

Aakash Gupta is a co-founder of Zoff Foods, a Raipur-based Indian spices and packaged-foods brand that launched in 2018. Zoff was profiled on Shark Tank India and has since built a distribution footprint across Indian modern trade, general trade, and online retail, with a growing export business.

He is co-founder alongside his brother Akash Gupta, both from a multi-generation small-business family in Chhattisgarh. The brand's proposition is built around whole spices, grinding-at-origin, and packaging designed for the Indian kitchen - positioned against both unbranded loose spices and older national brands.

He speaks on building a modern Indian F&B brand from a Tier-2 city, competing against legacy players, and the realities of D2C plus distribution in India.