Ecommerce startups in Bengaluru

Sachin Bansal & Binny Bansal

The company that proved Indian e-commerce could work, founded 2007 by two ex-Amazon engineers selling books from a Koramangala apartment. Walmart's $16B majority buy in 2018 was a landmark; its alumni seeded...

Hari Menon, V.S. Sudhakar, Vipul Parekh, Abhinay Choudhari, V.S. Ramesh

India's pioneering online grocery platform (2011), by serial entrepreneurs from the earlier Fabmart venture. Category leader until the Tata Group took a majority stake in 2021.

Vidit Aatrey & Sanjeev Barnwal

Founded 2015 by two IIT-Delhi grads; built social/value commerce bringing small-town India and home resellers online. Unicorn 2021, a poster child for 'Bharat' commerce.

Mukesh Bansal, Ashutosh Lawania, Vineet Saxena

Founded 2007, pivoted into India's leading fashion e-commerce platform; acquired by Flipkart in 2014. Founder Mukesh Bansal went on to build Cure.fit.

Thirukumaran Nagarajan, Kartheeswaran KK, Sharath Loganathan (+ co-founders)

Founded 2015; one of India's largest agri-supply-chain networks, connecting farmers directly to retailers. A Bengaluru agritech unicorn backed by Flipkart and Walmart.

Sujeet Kumar, Vaibhav Gupta, Amod Malviya

B2B e-commerce (2016) by three Flipkart veterans, digitising India's wholesale/kirana trade. One of the fastest Indian companies to unicorn status — the flagship of the Flipkart mafia.

Utham Gowda

Founded 2019, B2B tech-led seafood & perishables supply-chain marketplace digitizing catch-to-retail. Turned PAT-profitable in FY25; ~$550M revenue and global roll-up of 10+ companies (Poland, France, Mexico...

Vineet Rao, Sourjyendu Medda, Sankar Bora, Rajat Shikhar, Brijesh Bhardwaj

Founded 2018, social/value commerce platform (Pinduoduo-style group buying) targeting Tier-2/3 India for groceries and essentials. Reached unicorn status in 2022 with Tiger Global, Alpha Wave and WestBridge ...

Karthik Venkateswaran, Ashish Jhina

Founded 2015. B2B grocery/food marketplace serving kirana (mom-and-pop) stores, with J24 retail format. Hit unicorn status at ~$1B after a $120M Series D in 2025.

Aadit Palicha, Kaivalya Vohra

Founded 2021 (ex-KiranaKart), 10-minute quick-commerce dark-store network. Raised $450M at a $7 Bn valuation (Oct 2025); a top-three q-commerce player. NOTE: originally Mumbai-rooted but relocated/built its ...

Shan Kadavil, Mathew Joseph, Jayesh Jose

Founded 2015, D2C fresh fish & meat e-commerce brand built on a 100% chemical-free, antibiotic-residue-free promise and an own supply chain. Series D funded (Amazon, Investcorp, the Iron Pillar; backed via S...

Varun Sadana, Vineet Khanna, Aman Tekriwal, Abhay Hanjura

Founded 2021 (by Licious co-founders), full-stack pet-care D2C platform — food, accessories, online vet consults, pharmacy and now offline vet clinics in Bengaluru. Raised ~$30M to build India's petcare ecos...