About Peyush Bansal
Peyush Bansal is known for being the founder and CEO of Lenskart. He was also recently seen as one of the judges of the famous Indian reality show Shark Tank India.
After completing his studies, he worked for the renowned company Microsoft Corporation in the USA in 2007 for the post of the program manager. Through Peyush Bansal’s experience in his first job at Microsoft, he left the company after working for one year there. He wants to be an entrepreneur and thus he returns to India. At the young age of 24, he had only one aim in mind: to start an eCommerce company. Lenskart founder Peyush Bansal started this company along with his co-founders Amit Chaudhary and Sumeet Kapahi in November 2010.
Peyush Bansal is a great entrepreneur, known as a tech guru and inspiration to many. He is a firm believer in purpose-driven business. He has built a huge business with a strong purpose to serve India. His vision was to provide vision to every India.
List Of 27 Startups Peyush Bansal Has Invested
1. Vivalyf Innovations-Easy Life
Founder | Duvvuru Varshitha and Vimal Kumar |
About | Prickless diabetes testing machine using improvised technology |
Original Ask | ₹56 lakhs for 7.5% equity |
Final Deal | 56 lakhs for 33.33% equity along with Anupam and Peyush |
2. Ario
Founder | Nisha Ramasamy and Vasanth Tamilselvan |
About | They make eco-friendly wooden toys for children. Toys are made of neem wood and non-toxic paints. |
Original Ask | ₹50 lakhs for 2.5% equity |
Final Deal | 50 lakhs for 10% equity along with Aman and Peyush |
3. Nuutjob
Founder | Ananya Maloo and Anushree Maloo |
About It | provides products for male intimate hygiene and grooming |
Original Ask | ₹25 lakhs for 5% equity |
Final Deal | 25 lakhs for 20% equity along with Aman, Namita, and Peyush |
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4. EventBeep
Founder | Saurabh Mangrulkar, Rakhi Pal and Venkatesh Prasad |
About It | Student community mobile app that helps students to connect with other students. |
Original Ask | ₹30 lakhs for 2 % equity |
Final Deal | 30 lakhs for 3% equity along with Aman, Ashneer, and Peyush |
5. LOKA
Founder | Krishnan Sundararajan |
About | It is a Metaverse app that gives users a real time experience. |
Original Ask | ₹40 lakhs for 5% equity |
Final Deal | 40 lakhs for 24% equity along with Aman, Anupam and Peyush |
6. Annie
Founders | Sanskritia Dawle, Aman Shrivastava, Dilip Ramesh, and Saif Shaikh. It helps kids to learn lessons. |
About | Annie is a self-learning Braille Literary Device |
Original Ask | ₹30 lakhs for 0.5% equity |
Final Deal | 1.05cr for 3% equity along with Namita, Anupam, and Peyush |
7. Carragreen
Founder | Surabhi Shah |
About | The company makes Eco-friendly boxes. They aim to replace the use of plastic boxes and produce biodegradable products for the planet. |
Original Ask | ₹50 lakhs for 10% equity |
Final Deal | 50 lakhs for 20% equity along with Anupam and Peyush |
8. The Yarn Bazaar
Founder | Pratik Gadia |
About | They made a Yarn trading app, that provides a common platform for buyers and sellers of yarn. This will help in the organization of this industry. |
Original Ask | ₹50 lakhs for 2% equity |
Final Deal | 1cr for 10% equity along with Aman, Anupam, Ashneer and Peyush |
10. PNT
Founder | Pratik Tirodkar |
About | The company makes robotics and automation solutions. They make artificial intelligence-powered products using technology and automation. |
Original Ask | ₹50 lakhs for 4% equity |
Final Deal | ₹25 lakhs for 25% equity and ₹25 lakhs debt along with Peyush |
11. Find Your Kicks India
Founder | Danish Chawla & Simardeep Singh |
About | It is a Sneaker Resale platform. |
Original Ask | ₹50 lakhs for 10% equity |
Final Deal | 50 lakhs for 25% equity along with all the sharks. |
12. Aas Vidyalaya
Founder | Vikas Kakwani |
About | It is an EdTech app that provides virtual schooling. |
Original Ask | ₹1.5 crores for 3% equity |
Final Deal | 1.5cr for 15% equity along with Ashneer, Namita and Peyush |
13. RoadBounce
Founder | Ranjeet Deshmukh |
About | This is Pothole Detection Software and Data in smartphones for detecting roughness of road and ensures driving comfort. |
Original Ask | ₹80 lakhs for 10% equity |
Final Deal | ₹80 Lakhs for 20% Equity along with Peyush |
14. WeSTOCK
Founder | Romeo P Jerard, Shreeshankar S Nair |
About | It is Livestock health monitoring based on artificial intelligence. |
Original Ask | ₹50 lakhs for 5% equity |
Final Deal | ₹60 lakhs for 10% equity along with Aman, Ashneer, Namita and Peyush |
15. The State Plate
Founder | Muskaan Sancheti, Raghav Jhawar |
About | It is an eCommerce platform that aims to sell food, snacks, and other delicacies from various states of India. |
Original Ask | ₹65 lakhs for 2% equity |
Final Deal | ₹40 Lakhs for 3%equity and ₹25 Lakhs Debt along with Peyush |
16. IN A CAN
Founder | Viraj Sawant and Sameer Mirajkar |
About | They make instant ready-to-serve canned Cocktails. |
Original Ask | ₹50 lakhs for 2% equity |
Final Deal | ₹1 Crore for 10% equity along with all the sharks. |
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17. Sid 07 Designs
Founder | Siddharth Gupta |
About | It is a company that makes sustainable products and other inventions to make daily life easier. |
Original Ask | ₹47lakhs for 10% equity |
Final Deal | ₹25 Lakhs for 75% equity & 22 lakhs Debt along with Peyush. |
18. Hair Originals
Founder | Ashish Tiwari, Jitendra Sharma, Piyush Wadhwani |
About | Natural Hair Extensions |
Original Ask | ₹60 lakhs for 2% equity |
Final Deal | ₹60 Lakhs for 4% equity along with Ashneer, Anupam and Peyush |
19. KG Agrotech
Founder | Kamlesh Nanasaheb Ghumare (AKA Jugadu Kamlesh) |
About | It is an agricultural innovation developer that has designed a multipurpose bicycle that performs pesticide spraying, carrying, etc. |
Original Ask | ₹30 lakhs for 10% equity |
20. Sunfox Technologies
Founder | Rajat, Nitin, Sabit , and Saurabh Badola are the founders. |
About | The company uses technology and Artificial intelligence to create a portable ECG device named as Spandan. |
Original Ask | ₹1 crore for 2% equity |
Final Deal | ₹1 crore for 6% Equity along with all the sharks. |
21. Isak Fragrances
Founder | Vidushi Vijayvergiya |
About | It is a perfume and attar brand that makes a range of fragrances in perfumes and attars. |
Original Ask | ₹50 lakhs for 8% equity |
Final Deal | ₹50 lakhs for 50% Equity along with Peyush |
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22. Watt Technovations
Founder | Nihaal Singh Aadarsh |
About | They had designed Ventilated PPE kits |
Original Ask | ₹101 for 2% equity |
Final Deal | ₹101 for 4% equity along with Namita, Anupam, Peyush, and Ghazal |
23. Insurance Samadhan
Founder | Deepak, Shailesh, Shilpa, Sanjay, and Ravi Mathur are the founders. |
About | It is an online platform for all insurance solutions such as assisting in lapsed insurance, claims, etc. |
Original Ask | ₹1 crore for 1% equity |
Final Deal | ₹1 Crore for 4% Equity along with Peyush |
24. Humpy A2
Founder | Vishal, Malvika and Jaywant Patel are the founders. |
About | It is a certified dairy brand that promotes organic farming including organic milk products. |
Original Ask | ₹75 lakhs for 4% equity |
Final Deal | ₹1 Crore for 15% Equity along with Vineeta, Ghazal and Peyush |
25. Gold Safe Solutions Ind.
About | They make Anti- Suicidal Fan Rod |
Original Ask | ₹50 lakhs for 5% equity |
Final Deal | ₹50 lakhs for 30% Equity along with Ghazal, Vineeta, and Peyush |
26. Tweek Labs
Founder | Anant Sharma and Shwetank |
About | They had developed motion-capturing sportswear suits. |
Original Ask | ₹40 lakhs for 2% Equity |
Final Deal | ₹60 lakhs for 10% Equity along with Ashneer, Anupam and Peyush |
27. Proxgy
Founder | Pulkit Ahuja and Inderjit singh |
About | They use artificial intelligence and technology to create a niche-oriented destination for people. |
Original Ask | ₹35 lakhs for 1% Equity |
Final Deal | ₹1 crore for 10% Equity along with Ashneer and Peyush |
28. Store My Goods
Founders | Sudeep Gupta, Swati Gupta, Sajid Khan |
About | They provide technology-based storage facilities, where people can store goods from anywhere. |
Original Ask | 1 crore rupees for 1.75 % equity |
Final Deal | ₹50 lakhs for 4% Equity and ₹50 lakhs debt along with Peyush and Namita |
Peyush Bansal Investments Other Than Shark Tank India
1. Smiles.ai – Raised ₹171 crores from Peyush and ten other investors.
2. inFeedo – Raised about $700k amount from Peyush and seven other investors.
3. Shiprocket – Raised $185M from Peyush and thirteen other investors.
4. DailyObjects.com – Raised $1.3M amount from Peyush and other investors.
FAQ’s
Peyush Bansal is known for being the founder and CEO of Lenskart.
Peyush Bansal estimated net worth is approximately INR 600 Crores as of 2021.
The Co-founder and CEO of Lenskart Peyush Bansal has invested in more than 30 startups so far.
Peyush Bansal holds a stake of 8.21% in his company, Lenskart.
Peyush Bansal has invested around Rs 8.297 crore in all the Final Deals in Shark Tank India.