Kunal Bahl

Kunal Bahl

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Kunal Bahl Profile

  • Name:
  • Kunal Bahl
  • Born / Home Town:
  • Delhi
  • Spouse:
  • Yashna

Kunal Bahl Biography

Kunal Bahl is an Indian businessman and entrepreneur, best known as one of the co-founders of Snapdeal, India’s leading e-commerce platform for selling over 30 million products. Kunal currently serves as the CEO of Snapdeal. He co-founded this online store aside his school friend Rohit Bansal, an engineering graduate from IIT, Delhi. Snapdeal was started in the year 2010. Kunal completed his engineering degree from University of Pennsylvania. Kunal is a recipient of multiple awards as a successful businessman and entrepreneur.

 

Kunal was born and brought up in Delhi, where he completed his schooling. Following his unsuccessful attempt to get through IIT Delhi entrance exams, he moved to USA where he completed his engineering degree from University of Pennsylvania. He also studied business from Wharton School and started a business company during his academic years. He also worked in Microsoft for a short period before he was deported to India due to visa problems in 2008.

 

He along his school friend Rohit Bansal decided to set up a business of their own and that’s how Snapdeal originated. Rohit was with CapitalOne when they met. Initially it was only a daily deals platform and they launched an offline couponing business in 2007-08. E-commerce platform in India was still an infant then. Snapdeal took its form in 2010. But very soon it expanded to one of the leading e-commerce platforms of India, dealing with a wide range of electronic, electric, fashion, accessories and other products. Till now the company has raised funding 7 times and it sells products to more than 6,000 towns and cities across the country. More than 275,000 sellers are also benefitted with this platform.

 

Many foreign companies are investing huge sums of money in this successful project. The company has also acquired several websites selling products. Snapdeal is one of the fastest grown young companies of India at present. It also gives amazing job opportunities to thousands.

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Updated: May 29, 2016

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