Kunal Bahl

FOUNDER OF SNAPDEAL

Kunal Bahl is an Indian entrepreneur, co founder and CEO of the e-commerce platform Snapdeal.

Early life

Bahl was born in India and had completed his initial school education at Delhi Public School R. K. Puram (DPS) New Delhi. He applied to the University of Pennsylvania and received admission. Bahl then graduated from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania, earning two bachelor's degrees in Marketing and Operations Strategy and Manufacturing Engineering from The Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science and finished an executive marketing program from Kellogg School of Management. While studying in the United States Bahl started a detergent company and worked to sell his product at Walmart stores. Bahl had worked with Microsoft for a short period as he came back to India due to some visa issue in 2008.

Awards and recognitions

• 1. BMA Entrepreneur of the Year 2014
• 2. ET Top 50 Entrepreneur of India 2014
• 3. Ranked 25 on Fortune 40 under 40 most influential business leaders list 2014
• 4. EY Entrepreneur of the year - Startup 2014
• 5. Nasscom NextGen Entrepreneur 2014
• 6. AIMA Transformational Business Leader of the Year
• 7. Indian Affairs Business Leader of the Year 2015

Snapdeal is an Indian e-commerce company based in New Delhi, India. The company was started by Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal in February 2010. As of 2014 Snapdeal had 300,000 sellers, over 30 million products across 800+ diverse categories from over 125,000 regional, national, and international brands and retailers and a reach of 6,000 towns and cities across the country.

Investors in the company include SoftBank Corp, Ru-Net Holdings, Tybourne Capital, PremjiInvest, Alibaba Group, Temasek Holdings, Bessemer Venture Partners, IndoUS Ventures, Kalaari Capital, Saama Capital, Foxconn Technology Group, Blackrock, eBay, Nexus Ventures, Intel Capital, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Singapore-based investment entity Brother Fortune Apparel and Ratan Tata. Snapdeal acquired FreeCharge for $400 million.