RookTook
RookTook is India’s first platform for daily chess tournaments, with a fully digital competitive ecosystem that enables players to monetize their skills. In a global chess market valued at $3.34B in 2024, with India growing at a 7.8% CAGR, RookTook is modernizing how chess is played and consumed, similar to how IPL revolutionized cricket. T9L transformed RookTook into a viable product with over 3,500 downloads by leveraging its Tech, GTM, and Distribution Playbooks, making it India’s fastest-growing chess ecosystem. T9L refined the financial model, optimized the revenue lifecycle, and supported expansion through offline tournament activation.
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“We started RookTook with just a thought. The T9L team brought in their deep expertise in gaming and product, and helped us expand that thought into a much bigger vision. What stood out was how they anticipated the kind of help we might need at each stage and provided it upfront almost before we even asked. This made the journey faster, clearer and much more ambitious than we had imagined at the start.”
Shubham Rawal
CEO & Co-Founder
About Founders
Meet the visionary leaders who are driving innovation and growth.
Shubham Rawal
CEO & Co-Founder
Shubham is a 3x founder with seven years of experience in the fintech and gaming space. His previous company (subsequently acquired by a Houston-based company) was accepted into the 2020 summer batch of Y Combinator. He is building the product and leading the strategy at RookTook.
Yashvardhan Singh
CTO & Co-Founder
Previously an operations lead at Zolo, Yashvardhan is a 3x founder with a 5-year track record of profitable ventures including SabPay and a treasury management service. He has a B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering with a specialization in Al and machine learning and has been a passionate RTS gamer for over a decade. He leads operations, engineering, growth and marketing at RookTook.