Changa Video App

What Changa Video App does

Changa Video App is an India-based short video platform positioned at the intersection of entertainment and commerce, founded in 2020 and headquartered in Gurgaon. The company was co-founded by Anas Mohammad and Shubham Agarwal, who serves as co-founder and CEO; the firm reports an 11–50 employee headcount, consistent with early-stage operational scale. The platform is described in firmographic sources as a short-video ecosystem spanning both entertainment and commerce use cases, implying either a content-to-commerce funnel or a dual-mode consumer experience rather than a pure-play entertainment feed.

No specifics on the underlying technology stack, proprietary recommendation or ranking system, content moderation approach, computer-vision pipeline, creator tooling, or commerce/checkout integration are documented in the supplied material. There is no disclosed pricing model, monetization mechanic (creator monetization, ad load, commerce take-rate, subscriptions), go-to-market channel mix, customer logo set, or installed-base metric. No funding rounds, investors, partnerships, product launches, or leadership additions beyond the founding team are present in the input data.

A material data integrity concern is present: the company's primary web domain, changa.in, has expired and currently displays a Namecheap parking page rather than a product surface. This blocks independent verification of product availability, current user scale, monetization, and active operating status. The absence of disclosed funding, partnerships, recent launches, or hiring activity, combined with the lapsed domain, means that the company's present commercial state cannot be reliably inferred from the supplied material; readers should treat public claims about the platform with low confidence absent direct verification through app stores or primary-source customer references.

Name

Changa Video App

Website

https://changa.in

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Gurgaon-based Changa Video App, founded in 2020, operates a short video platform for entertainment and commerce. Co-founded by Anas Mohammad and Shubham Agarwal, the company employs 11–50 people; its primary web domain has expired.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Short Video Platform

NAICS

Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (5162), Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (516210)

SIC

Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYMPACAHAI

Short-Form Video Shopping & Shoppable Video Platforms

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Digital Media & Content Platforms (Online Video, Podcasts, Creators)/Short-Form Video Platforms

SECONDARYMPACABAB

Short-Form User-Generated Video Platforms

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Digital Media & Content Platforms (Online Video, Podcasts, Creators)/User-Generated Video & Creator Platforms

SECONDARYCRAFANAE

Shoppable Video & Short-form Commerce Platforms

Consumer Products & Retail/E-commerce & Marketplaces/Social Commerce Platforms

Keywords

• Short video platform
• Social commerce app
• Video entertainment
• Creator content app
• Mobile video sharing

Headquarters

HQ city

Gurugram

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Core offering

Changa Video App operates a short video ecosystem that combines entertainment and commerce for users. The platform enables consumers to consume and share short-form video content while integrating commerce features within the experience. It is offered as a mobile-first application targeted at the Indian market.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Changa Video App A short video ecosystem mobile application that combines entertainment and commerce for individual consumers in India. Users can watch, share and discover short-form video content and engage with commerce features integrated into the platform.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Broad incumbents

• YouTube Shorts: Google/Alphabet's short-form video offering inside YouTube — broad incumbent with massive catalog, recommendation engine, and monetisation stack competing in the same attention market.
• Instagram Reels: Meta's short-form video feature inside Instagram — a broad incumbent that operates globally and in India, competing for the same creator and viewer attention and increasingly layering in commerce/checkout.
• ShareChat: Mohalla Tech's regional-language social platform that hosts Moj — broad incumbent in India's regional social/content space, comparable target user and content/monetisation model.

Direct peers

• MX TakaTak: Short-form video platform from MX Media (Times Internet) — same category, same Indian user base, with comparable creator monetisation and shoppable-video experiments.
• Roposo: India-origin short-video and creator monetisation platform — directly comparable as an early Indian short-video app with creator-driven commerce and entertainment content.
• Chingari: India-based short-form video app with creator-token and commerce-adjacent features — directly comparable as a smaller, India-focused short-video platform with similar entertainment-plus-commerce positioning.
• Moj (ShareChat parent): India-based short-form video platform from Mohalla Tech (ShareChat) — direct competitor in the same product category, regional language short-video feed with creator monetisation and commerce hooks, serving the same Indian user base.
• Josh (VerSe Innovation): Indian short-form video app from VerSe Innovation — directly competes for the same regional-language short-video audience and creator pool in India, with similar UGC and commerce-adjacent features.

Emerging players

• Trell: India-based short-video platform with a commerce/shopping layer — emerging player that overlapped Changa's entertainment-plus-commerce positioning for Indian regional audiences.

Others

• Meesho: India-based social commerce marketplace — adjacent player that intersects Changa's commerce ambitions, serving Tier-2/3 India with social/shoppable video-led commerce.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks5 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/changa_india
• Facebookfacebook.com/changaindian

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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