The purpose of this paper is to find initial coefficient bounds \(|a_2|\) and \(|a_3|\) and Fekete-Szegö estimates for the functions that belong to a newly defined subclass \(\mathscr {G}\mathscr {B}^{\nu }_{\kappa }(l)\) consisting of analytic functions normalized by the conditions \(f(0)=0\) and \(f^{\prime }(0)=1\) defined by the subordination to Limaçon-shaped domain. Similar results have been derived for the inverse function \(f^{-1}\) , \(\log \dfrac{f(z)}{z}\) and \(\dfrac{z}{f(z)}\) . Furthermore, applications of our results to certain distributions are defined and discussed using Hadamard product. Our findings generalize existing results and also introduce novel subclasses of univalent functions.