Biography of Anupam Mittal

Today we are talking about Anupam Mittal who is known as the founder of Shaadi.com. Anupam Mittal is an Indian entrepreneur, business executive, investor, and founder of the real estate platform Makaan.Com. He has been included in India’s 50 most powerful people by Business Week. Anupam Mittal is one of the seven judges of the Indian business reality show Shark Tank India Season 1.

About Anupam Mittal

Anupam Mittal was born on 23 December 1971 in a middle-class Hindu family in Mumbai, Maharashtra. His father’s name is Gopal Krishna Mittal and mother’s name is Bhagwati Devi Mittal. He did his schooling from Don Bosco School. Anupam Mittal did his post graduation from Boston University followed by MBA in Operations and Strategic Management from Indian Institute of Management in 1994-95. Anupam Mittal’s wife name is Aanchal Kumar, who is a model. The couple tied the knot on 4 July 2013 in Jaipur, Rajasthan.

Anupam Mittal and shaadi.com

 Anupam founded the website sagaai.com in the year 1997. So that it is very easy for the people to find the rituals. When he started the online matchmaking business, the internet adaptation in the country was quite poor. After facing many setbacks in business, he took his company to the position it is in today. Anupam wanted this website to be one of the best matrimonial website in the world, for this he invested all his capital in this website. In 1999, Anupam changed the name of sagaai.com to Shaadi.com. Due to which this website became more popular. Today, shaadi.com is one of India’s Largest Matrimonial Website. Whose net worth is around Rs 15000 crores.

The company operates globally with its main market being India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The company was highlighted as one of the Top Ten Marketers in the year 2007 by Business Today.

Ghazal Alagh co-founder of the famous beauty brand Mamaearth

Investment of Anupam

Anupam is one of the top angel investors in the country and has invested in over 200 start-up ventures. Some of these include Interactive Avenues, Sapiens Analytics, BigBasket, Cafe Zoey, Cato, Druv, Pretty Secrets, TaxSpanner, Peel Works, Fareea, PropTiger, etc. He started his business journey with People Group and founded companies like makaan.com, Mobile App and Shaadi.com.

When Ola started, he invested about one crore rupees in it. Where he made more profits. Even today he has 2 per cent of its shares. Apart from this, he has also invested in two Bollywood films, Flavor and 99. He is the founder and CEO of People Group, apart from this he is also an investor in Sony TV’s Shark Tank India reality show.

Anupam in Shark Tank

Anupam Mittal is part of Shark Tank India as an investor. It is basically a platform where entrepreneurs present their ideas to judges (Sharks) to get investment for their venture in return. The judge who judges this reality show is also a business person.

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