Person attributes
Meesho founder
Vidit Aatrey, an almunus of IIT-Delhi (2012 batch), embarked on the journey of creating Meesho in 2015 with an aim to build an ecommerce startup for small businesses at a time when everyone told them that ecommerce is saturated. Four years and two pivots later, he claims to have built India’s largest social commerce platform.
Meesho's vision is to enable 100M Small Businesses in India to succeed online. We have 10M+ women entrepreneurs running biz online and we are just getting started.
Meesho has raised ~$500M from Softbank, Naspers, Facebook, Sequoia, Elevation, Shunwei, Venture Highway, Y Combinator and others.
Awards and Recognition: Fortune 40 Under 40 (2021), Economic Times 40 Under 40 (2021), Forbes 30 Under 30 (2018) (India and Asia list), Entrepreneur 35 Under 35 (2019), India's Most Innovative Company (2020) by Fast Company, Young Turk Startup of the Year (2020) by CNBC (awarded by Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman), First Startup Investment by Facebook in India, Linkedin Top Startup (2019) and (2020), Y Combinator Top Companies (2019).
