Popular E-commerce Websites and their Founders
An E-commerce website is an online platform where businesses sell products or services to customers over the Internet.

 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.

NameYearFounder
Amazon1994Jeff Bezos
eBay1995Pierre Omidyar
Naukri.com1996Sanjeev Bikhchandani
MakeMyTrip2000Deep Kalra, Keyur Joshi & Rajesh Magow
Cleartrip2005Hrush Bhatt, Matthew Spacie & Stuart Crighton
Yatra2006Dhruv Shringi, Manish Amin & Sabina Chopra
FlipKart2007Sachin Bansal, Binny Bansal
Myntra2007Mukesh Bansal, Ashutosh Lawania, Vineet Saxena
BookMyShow2007Ashish Hemrajani
Infibeam2007Sachin Dalal
Naaptol2007Manu Agarwal
Byjus2008Byju Raveendran & Divya Gokulnath
Quikr2008Pranay Chulet & Jiby Thomas
Zomato2008Deepinder Goyal, Pankaj Chaddah
UBER2009Travis Kalanick & Garrett Camp
Paytm2010Vijay Shekhar Sharma
SnapDeal2010Rohit Bansal, Kunal Bahl
Lenskart2010Peyush Bansal
Shopclues2010Sanjay Sethi, Radhika Aggarwal & Sandeep Aggarwal
FirstCry2010Supam Maheshwari
OLA2011Ankit Bhati & Bhavish Aggarwal
BigBasket2011Abhinay Choudhari, Hari Menon, Vipul Parekh & V.S. Sudhakar
Pepperfry2012Ambareesh Murty
Nykaa2012Falguni Nayar
Jabong 2012Praveen Sinha, Lakshmi Potluri, Arun Chandra Mohan, Manu Jain
Gaana.com2013Avinash Mudaliar
Swiggy2014Nandan Reddy, Rahul Jaimini & Sriharsha Majety
Meesho2015Vidit Aatrey & Sanjeev Barnwal
PharmEasy2015Dharmil 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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