Entrepreneurs
Successful Entrepreneur-Anupam Mittal, Founder & CEO of People Group (Shaadi.com)
Anupam Mittal is a business executive, angel investor, and entrepreneur from India. Mittal is most known for founding Shaadi.com, Makaan.com, Mauj, and Mobango, a matrimony website, real estate platform, and short video application.
In the academic year 1994-97, Anupam Mittal completed his post-graduate studies at Boston University, where he earned an MBA in Operations and Strategic Management. He began working as a product manager at Microstrategy, a business intelligence software company in Washington, D.C., in 1998 and remained there until 2002.
Mittal is one of India’s early techpreneurs, having created businesses prior to the internet bubble. He has also produced Bollywood films such as Flavors and 99 through his parent firm, People Group. Mittal rose to prominence after appearing in the reality television series Shark Tank India as one of the sharks. Mittal spent 5.338 crore in 24 firms during the first season of Shark Tank India.
Mittal had invested in more than 200 start-ups as of July 2015, including Interactive Avenues, Ola Cabs, Druva, Sapience Analytics, Pretty Secrets, Cafe Zoe, Peel Works, TaxSpanner, Fab Hotels, Ketto, Prop Tiger, BigBasket, FarEye, Lets Venture, and others. He was also named one of the top 25 people who were commonly searched in the Week magazine. He was named one of India’s 50 most powerful people by Business Week. IMPACT Digital Power named him one of the top 100 Icons of India’s Digital Ecosystem in 2012 and 2013. He was then named one of the top 100 NRIs in North America and was named Entrepreneur of the Year by IT People.