On-demand platform for connecting customers with businesses, GoodBox, has raised US $200K in seed funding from Manipal Group.

With this funding, the company is closing a pre-series A round in which former RedBus executive Charan Padmaraju and Taxiforsure co-founder Aprameya Radhakrishna is also expected to invest.

The company is planning to add payment option shortly and focus on maximizing transactions.

Goodbox provides a platform where customers can directly interact over chat with a business. It also enables the business to put up images, send group messages to their customers, set up store timings and even provide a menu function to list their items.

Goodbox customer list includes bus operators like Neeta, VRL , SRS, FMCG player Unibic as well as local businesses like Veglife, multi-outlet vegetable vendor, popular sports shops among others.