In a major setback for ONDC-linked quick commerce player KiranaPro, a cyberattack has brought the company’s operations to a grinding halt for the past five days. The disruption comes at a particularly sensitive moment, just as the startup was finalizing its seed funding round.
Co-founder and CEO Deepak Ravindran confirmed that the breach—discovered on May 26 but believed to have occurred on May 24 and 25—wiped out critical backend code and compromised customer data. Since the outage, KiranaPro has been unable to process 2,000 daily orders or respond to over 1 lakh app download requests per day, stalling operations and putting business deals worth Rs 5 crore on pause.
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The team has reached out to GitHub to trace the attacker’s digital footprint, though the method of intrusion remains unclear. Ravindran said they are working around the clock and hope to have the app back online within 48 hours.
The timing couldn’t be worse. The incident has clouded investor confidence just as KiranaPro was in the final stages of raising capital.
Earlier this week—prior to the breach—the company had announced its acquisition of AR-tech startup Likeo (likeo.me) in a $1 million deal. As part of the acquisition, Likeo’s founder Saurav Kumar was set to lead KiranaPro’s AI and visual computing initiatives. The startup had also previously acquired Joper.app to strengthen its presence in the hyperlocal retail tech space.
Launched in 2024 by Deepak Ravindran and Deepankar Sarkar, KiranaPro operates on the government-backed Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) and connects customers with local kirana stores and supermarkets. The startup is backed by TurboStart, Unpopular Ventures, Blume Ventures, and Snow Leopard Ventures, with angel investments from PV Sindhu and Arjun Vaidya.
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The breach, first reported by TechCrunch, has now cast a shadow over the company’s rapid growth story.
