It enables users to browse, select, and purchase items conveniently, often providing various payment options and secure transactions, allowing businesses to operate and reach customers globally without the need for physical storefronts.
List of E-commerce Websites in India and their Founders
In this post, we will be listing some of the popular E-commerce Websites, their founders, and the year in which they were founded in chronological order.
| Name | Year | Founder |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon | 1994 | Jeff Bezos |
| eBay | 1995 | Pierre Omidyar |
| Naukri.com | 1996 | Sanjeev Bikhchandani |
| MakeMyTrip | 2000 | Deep Kalra, Keyur Joshi & Rajesh Magow |
| Cleartrip | 2005 | Hrush Bhatt, Matthew Spacie & Stuart Crighton |
| Yatra | 2006 | Dhruv Shringi, Manish Amin & Sabina Chopra |
| FlipKart | 2007 | Sachin Bansal, Binny Bansal |
| Myntra | 2007 | Mukesh Bansal, Ashutosh Lawania, Vineet Saxena |
| BookMyShow | 2007 | Ashish Hemrajani |
| Infibeam | 2007 | Sachin Dalal |
| Naaptol | 2007 | Manu Agarwal |
| Byjus | 2008 | Byju Raveendran & Divya Gokulnath |
| Quikr | 2008 | Pranay Chulet & Jiby Thomas |
| Zomato | 2008 | Deepinder Goyal, Pankaj Chaddah |
| UBER | 2009 | Travis Kalanick & Garrett Camp |
| Paytm | 2010 | Vijay Shekhar Sharma |
| SnapDeal | 2010 | Rohit Bansal, Kunal Bahl |
| Lenskart | 2010 | Peyush Bansal |
| Shopclues | 2010 | Sanjay Sethi, Radhika Aggarwal & Sandeep Aggarwal |
| FirstCry | 2010 | Supam Maheshwari |
| OLA | 2011 | Ankit Bhati & Bhavish Aggarwal |
| BigBasket | 2011 | Abhinay Choudhari, Hari Menon, Vipul Parekh & V.S. Sudhakar |
| Pepperfry | 2012 | Ambareesh Murty |
| Nykaa | 2012 | Falguni Nayar |
| Jabong | 2012 | Praveen Sinha, Lakshmi Potluri, Arun Chandra Mohan, Manu Jain |
| Gaana.com | 2013 | Avinash Mudaliar |
| Swiggy | 2014 | Nandan Reddy, Rahul Jaimini & Sriharsha Majety |
| Meesho | 2015 | Vidit Aatrey & Sanjeev Barnwal |
| PharmEasy | 2015 | Dharmil Shah, Dhaval Shah & Mikhil Innani |
📝 SideNotes - :
- Major Flipkart Acquisitions –
- Myntra (2014).
- PhonePe (2016), a digital payments platform.
- Jabong was later acquired by Flipkart in 2016 as a part of Myntra and eventually shut it down in 2020.
- Cleartrip (2021).
- One of the major online acquisitions done by Amazon is – Junglee.
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