12 Flags Group takes the lead on KNOT's $5M Series A

KNOT, a Karnataka-headquartered company operating in the consumer fashion tech segment, has raised a $5M Series A led by 12 Flags Group, according to StartupTalky's running Indian startup funding tracker.

The deal appears in the publication's table for the December 9–15, 2025 window, which records each transaction by company name, sector, headquarters, amount, round type and lead investor. Within those fields the entry is unambiguous: $5M, Series A, 12 Flags Group as lead, Karnataka as base.

Beyond them, the disclosure is thin. The tracker does not describe what KNOT makes or sells, does not name founders or leadership, gives no headcount and attaches no valuation to the round. It also carries no use-of-proceeds detail, so how the $5M will be deployed — hiring, retail expansion, manufacturing, marketing or otherwise — is not established by the record.

What the listing does fix is KNOT's position within a specific slice of the market. The tracker files the company under Consumer > Fashion Tech, the same category it applies to other apparel-adjacent businesses in the period. In the December 9–15 window, that category also included Rotoris, based in Haryana, which raised a $3M seed led by Venture Catalysts, and NeoSapien, also of Karnataka, which raised a $2M seed led by Merak Ventures. KNOT's $5M is the largest of the Consumer > Fashion Tech entries recorded in that week.

The surrounding weeks show the category drawing a spread of cheque sizes rather than a single prevailing ticket. In the November 25–December 8 window, NEWME, listed under Apparel Brands, raised a $12M Series B led by Accel, while ReplyAll raised a $750K seed led by Sparrow Capital in the same segment. Jiwya, filed under Consumer Goods > Apparel Brands, took in a $350K seed led by Kiara Luxe Holdings in the December 9–15 stretch.

That pattern — a handful of mid-sized rounds sitting above a long tail of sub-$1M seeds — is visible across the tracker's December tables, which span sectors from fintech and electric vehicles to space tech and hospital chains. For KNOT, the Series A puts it among the larger consumer-fashion cheques of the month without approaching the $12M Series B recorded by NEWME weeks earlier.

The round's inclusion in a weekly compilation also means the public record currently runs no deeper than the table itself. There is no accompanying statement from 12 Flags Group in the source, no articulation of investment thesis from the investor, and no outlined milestones the company is expected to hit with the capital.

For now, KNOT's Series A stands as a data point: a $5M cheque, a named lead, a Karnataka address, and a sector tag — Consumer > Fashion Tech — that places it alongside a cluster of similarly positioned startups raising through the final quarter of 2025.