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Boat is an Indian company that manufactures audio equipment and gadgets. The company started in 2016 and headquartered in Delhi, India.

History
It was founded by Aman Gupta who used to work at JBL and Sameer Mehta who was in the computer gaming peripheral distribution business.

The company started as an E-commerce focused brand on Amazon India. Later developed its own platform and also expanded offline channel.

Amid a rising anti-China sentiment in India to Boycotts of Chinese products during 2021 China–India skirmishes the company reported it's products to be manufactured in China. Because of an ongoing anti-China sentiment, many Chinese manufactured products were targeted. Boat announced a shift to India for manufacturing but claimed no losses because of anti-China sentiment, citing the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for wearables by the government of India as the reason to shift manufacturing.

The company signed joint venture with electronics manufacturer Dixon Technologies (India), to manufacture its wireless audio products domestically, moving away from China.

In December 2021, the company founder Aman Gupta was appeared in Shark Tank India, an Indian Hindi-language business reality television series as a panel of investors or shark.

In January, 2022 the company acquired Singapore based end-to-end smart IoT product development company KaHa Pte Ltd.

In January 2022, the company filed IPO of inr 20000000000 at company valuation of inr 112500000000-inr 150000000000 at SEBI.