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November 2026The journeys behind India’s startups, written down as they happen70 journeys so far

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Flipkart

Sachin Bansal, Binny Bansal

Two ex-Amazon engineers started by delivering books with cash on delivery in a market where online payments were scarce, then built logistics (eKart) and scaled into a general marketplace.

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No. 1 of India’s top 100

Sachin Bansal
Sachin Bansal. Photo: Shahanadg, CC BY-SA 4.0

All journeys

Sachin Bansal

Flipkart

Sachin Bansal, Binny Bansal

2007 | Bengaluru

Zomato

Deepinder Goyal, Pankaj Chaddah

2008 | Gurugram

Swiggy

Sriharsha Majety, Nandan Reddy, Rahul Jaimini

2013 | Bengaluru

Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Paytm

Vijay Shekhar Sharma

2010 | Noida

Sameer Nigam

PhonePe

Sameer Nigam, Rahul Chari, Burzin Engineer

2015 | Bengaluru

Nithin Kamath

Zerodha

Nithin Kamath, Nikhil Kamath

2010 | Bengaluru

Razorpay

Razorpay

Harshil Mathur, Shashank Kumar

2014 | Bengaluru

Kunal Shah

CRED

Kunal Shah

2018 | Bengaluru

Falguni Nayar

Nykaa

Falguni Nayar

2012 | Mumbai

PolicyBazaar

Yashish Dahiya, Alok Bansal, Avaneesh Nirjar

2008 | Gurugram

Ritesh Agarwal

OYO

Ritesh Agarwal

2012 | Gurugram

Bhavish Aggarwal

Ola

Bhavish Aggarwal, Ankit Bhati

2010 | Bengaluru

Bhavish Aggarwal

Ola Electric

Bhavish Aggarwal, Anand Shah

2017 | Bengaluru

Byju Raveendran

Byju's

Byju Raveendran, Divya Gokulnath

2011 | Bengaluru

Vidit Aatrey

Meesho

Vidit Aatrey, Sanjeev Barnwal

2015 | Bengaluru

Peyush Bansal

Lenskart

Peyush Bansal, Amit Chaudhary, Sumeet Kapahi

2008 | Gurgaon

Dream11

Harsh Jain, Bhavit Sheth

2008 | Mumbai

Girish Mathrubootham

Freshworks

Girish Mathrubootham, Shan Krishnasamy

2010 | San Mateo

Zoho

Sridhar Vembu, Tony Thomas, Sreenivas Kanumuru

1996 | Chennai

Groww

Lalit Keshre, Harsh Jain, Ishan Bansal

2016 | Bengaluru

Physics Wallah

Alakh Pandey, Prateek Maheshwari

2016 | Noida

Zepto

Zepto

Aadit Palicha, Kaivalya Vohra

2020 | Bengaluru

boAt

Aman Gupta, Sameer Mehta

2013 | New Delhi / Gurugram

Mamaearth

Varun Alagh, Ghazal Alagh

2016 | Gurugram

Delhivery

Sahil Barua, Mohit Tandon, Bhavesh Manglani

2011 | Gurugram

Urban Company

Abhiraj Singh Bhal, Varun Khaitan, Raghav Chandra

2014 | Gurugram

FirstCry

Supam Maheshwari, Amitava Saha

2010 | Pune

MakeMyTrip

MakeMyTrip

Deep Kalra, Rajesh Magow, Keyur Joshi

2000 | Gurugram

InMobi

InMobi

Naveen Tewari, Mohit Saxena, Amit Gupta

2007 | Bengaluru

Glance

Naveen Tewari, Piyush Shah, Abhay Singhal

2019 | Bengaluru

ShareChat

Ankush Sachdeva, Bhanu Pratap Singh, Farid Ahsan

2015 | Bengaluru

Unacademy

Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini, Hemesh Singh

2015 | Bengaluru

Ronnie Screwvala

upGrad

Ronnie Screwvala, Mayank Kumar, Phalgun Kompalli

2015 | Mumbai

Udaan

Sujeet Kumar, Amod Malviya, Vaibhav Gupta

2016 | Bengaluru

Infra.Market

Souvik Sengupta, Aaditya Sharda

2016 | Mumbai

OfBusiness

Asish Mohapatra, Ruchi Kalra, Bhuvan Gupta

2015 | Gurugram

Zetwerk

Amrit Acharya, Srinath Ramakkrushnan, Rahul Sharma

2018 | Bengaluru

Pine Labs

Lokvir Kapoor, Rajul Garg, Tarun Upadhyay

1998 | Noida

BharatPe

BharatPe

Ashneer Grover, Shashvat Nakrani, Bhavik Koladiya

2018 | New Delhi

Postman

Abhinav Asthana, Ankit Sobti, Abhijit Kane

2012 | San Francisco

BrowserStack

Ritesh Arora, Nakul Aggarwal

2011 | Mumbai

Chargebee

Krish Subramanian, Rajaraman Santhanam, Saravanan KP

2011 | San Francisco

Innovaccer

Abhinav Shashank, Kanav Hasija, Sandeep Gupta

2014 | San Francisco

Icertis

Samir Bodas, Monish Darda

2009 | Bellevue

Darwinbox

Darwinbox

Jayant Paleti, Rohit Chennamaneni, Chaitanya Peddi

2015 | Hyderabad

Druva

Jaspreet Singh, Milind Borate, Ramani Kothandaraman

2008 | Santa Clara

Rapido

Aravind Sanka, Pavan Guntupalli, SR Rishikesh

2015 | Bengaluru

BlackBuck

Rajesh Kumar Naidu Yabaji, Chanakya Hridaya, Ramasubramaniam Balasubramaniam

2015 | Bengaluru

CarDekho

CarDekho

Amit Jain, Anurag Jain, Umang Kumar

2008 | Jaipur

Cars24

Cars24

Vikram Chopra, Mehul Agrawal, Gajendra Jangid

2015 | Gurugram

Spinny

Niraj Singh, Ramanshu Mahaur, Mohit Gupta

2015 | Gurugram

Licious

Licious

Abhay Hanjura, Vivek Gupta

2015 | Bengaluru

Country Delight

Chakradhar Gade, Nitin Kaushal

2015 | Gurugram

Mukesh Bansal

Cult.fit

Mukesh Bansal, Ankit Nagori, Rishabh Telang and Deepak Poduva

2016 | Bengaluru

PharmEasy

Dharmil Sheth, Dhaval Shah, Siddharth Shah

2015 | Mumbai

Practo

Practo

Shashank ND, Abhinav Lal

2008 | Bengaluru

Pristyn Care

Pristyn Care

Harsimarbir Singh, Dr Garima Sawhney, Dr Vaibhav Kapoor

2018 | Gurugram

Dailyhunt

Virendra Gupta, Umang Bedi

2007 | Bengaluru

Pocket FM

Rohan Nayak, Prateek Dixit, Nishanth KS

2018 | Bengaluru

Ather Energy

Ather Energy

Tarun Mehta, Swapnil Jain

2013 | Bengaluru

Rebel Foods

Rebel Foods

Jaydeep Barman, Kallol Banerjee

2011 | Mumbai

Vedantu

Vamsi Krishna, Pulkit Jain, Anand Prakash

2014 | Bengaluru

Eruditus

Ashwin Damera, Chaitanya Kalipatnapu

2010 | Mumbai

Acko

Varun Dua

2016 | Bengaluru

Go Digit

Kamesh Goyal

2016 | Pune

Bhavin Turakhia

Zeta

Bhavin Turakhia, Ramki Gaddipati

2015 | San Francisco

Perfios

V.R. Govindarajan, Debasish Chakraborty

2008 | Bengaluru

Uniphore

Umesh Sachdev, Ravi Saraogi

2008 | Palo Alto

Fractal Analytics

Srikanth Velamakanni, Pranay Agrawal, Nirmal Palaparthi

2000 | Mumbai

Mindtickle

Krishna Depura, Nishant Mungali, Mohit Garg

2011 | San Francisco

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