Nikhil Kamath’s WTF backs BTG

BTG retains its founders, its team and its creative independence

e4m by e4m Staff
Published: Jul 7, 2026 8:14 AM  | 2 min read
WTF backs BTG
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  • BTG, an independent creative agency founded by Aaliya Amrin, Eman Batliwalla, and Danisha Kohli, has partnered with WTF, a media and venture platform established by Nikhil Kamath, marking a significant development in India's creative economy.
  • Founded in 2018 without institutional backing, BTG has built a reputation for culturally precise, strategy-led creative work, serving high-profile clients like Netflix, IKEA, and Volkswagen.
  • The partnership allows BTG to maintain its operational independence and creative integrity while gaining access to significant investment and resources for growth.
  • BTG is the second creative agency to join WTF's ecosystem, following One Hand Clap, emphasizing the platform's focus on supporting founder-led companies with strong visions.

BTG, the independent creative agency founded by Aaliya Amrin, Eman Batliwalla and Danisha Kohli, has joined WTF, the media and venture platform founded by Nikhil Kamath. The partnership marks one of the most significant moves yet in India's emerging creative economy: serious, long-term backing for an independent agency on its own terms, rather than absorbing it into a holding company.

Founded in 2018 and built entirely without institutional backing, BTG has spent eight years earning a reputation for strategy-led, culturally precise creative work, the kind of independent practice that holding companies spend decades trying to acquire and rarely manage to replicate.

The agency works across luxury, beauty, hospitality, entertainment, technology, tourism, wellness, lifestyle and consumer brands, partnering with clients including Netflix, Prime Video, IKEA, Volkswagen, Bumble, Soho House, Marriott and Nykaa, alongside a sharp portfolio of founder-led and emerging brands.

As part of WTF's ecosystem, BTG will continue to operate under its founders and existing team, with its creative practice untouched, now backed by significant investment, operational depth and the runway to build at a scale few independent Indian agencies have had access to.

"BTG has always been deeply personal to us," said Aaliya Amrin, Eman Batliwalla and Danisha Kohli, Founders of BTG. "We built this over eight years, slowly, carefully, client by client. What made this partnership feel right was that every conversation was about where culture and brands are headed over the next decade. This partnership exists to protect everything that made BTG valuable, while dramatically expanding what becomes possible, not just for us, but for what an independent creative company from India can become."

"What BTG has built is rare," said Nikhil Kamath, Founder of WTF. "A company with a strong point of view, consistent creative quality and deep, long-term relationships. At WTF, we back founders who have already built something meaningful, and we create the conditions for them to grow without losing what made them special. BTG felt like a natural fit, the clarity with which they've built the business, and the ambition for what comes next."

BTG becomes the second creative agency to join WTF's ecosystem, following One Hand Clap (OHC), reinforcing the platform's conviction in founder-led companies with strong points of view and the potential to define their categories.

Published On: Jul 7, 2026 8:14 AM