India, June 18 -- Serial entrepreneur and former Unacademy CBO Abhinav Agarwal is launching a new startup in the eyewear space and has raised $2.2 Mn seed funding in a round led by India Quotient.

Agarwal told Inc42 that the funding round also saw participation from notable angle investors such as Unacademy's Gaurav Munjal and Roman Saini, CRED's Kunal Shah, Snapdeal's Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal, V3 Ventures' Arjun Vaidya, Offline's Utsav Somani, Urban Company's Abhiraj Singh Bahl, CoinDCX's Sumit Gupta and Neeraj Khandelwal, Redbus' Phanindra Sama and former Deutsche Bank CEO Dilipkumar Khandelwal.

The startup, which is in stealth mode currently, will utilise the capital for product research, brand building, team hiring, and building ...