Peyush Bansal | |
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![]() Bansal in 2013 | |
Born | New Delhi, India | 26 April 1985
Nationality | Indian |
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Occupations | |
Organization(s) | Lenskart (Chairman, MD & CEO) |
Television | Shark Tank India (2021–present) |
Spouse | Nidhi Mittal [1] |
Children | 1 |
Peyush Bansal (born 26 April 1985) is an Indian entrepreneur, business executive and angel investor. [2] He is the co-founder and CEO of Lenskart, an Indian multinational eyewear retail chain, based in Gurugram. He is also a "shark" at the show Shark Tank India . [3] [4]
He was born into the Hindu Bansal family of Bal Kishan and Kiran Bansal. [5] He went to the United States for a job at Microsoft but later quit to start his own business. Then he started a new venture, selling eyewear online in the USA. He studied at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. [6]
In 2007, he came back to India and started SearchMyCampus.com, a classifieds website for college students. [7] As the website reached 20 employees, in June 2008, he registered a company called Valyoo Technologies in his parents' house in Greater Kailash, Delhi. [8] In 2009, he started another online venture named Flyrr, which was scrapped in November 2010. [9]
In 2010, under Valyoo Technologies, he began an eyewear retail website named Lenskart along with co-founder Amit Chaudhary. [10] In 2011, they were joined by Sumeet Kapahi, who was working for another eyewear brand. [11] [12] After Lenskart, he started three more e-commerce ventures under Valyoo Technologies called WatchKart, JewelsKart and BagsKart, but shut down the latter three to focus on eyewear. [13] [14] [15]
Bansal is one of the major investors/judges on the business reality show Shark Tank India .
In 2022, Bansal along with the other Shark Tank India judges appeared as a VIP contestant in Kaun Banega Crorepati . [16] He also appeared as a guest on The Kapil Sharma Show together with other Shark Tank India judges. [17] [18]