Kunal Bahl

Kunal Bahl is an Indian entrepreneur, investor, co-founder and CEO of the e-commerce platform Snapdeal.[1][2]

Kunal Bahl
Kunal Bahl in 2015
Born
New Delhi, India
NationalityIndian
EducationB.S.E in Entrepreneurship, Operation & Information Management, Wharton
B.A.S in Engineering
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
OccupationEntrepreneur, Investor
Known forE-commerce, Venture Capital
Spouse(s)Yashna Bahl

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. He graduated from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania, earning two bachelor's degrees in Entrepreneurship, Operation & Information Management from The Wharton School and Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He finished an executive marketing program from Kellogg School of Management.[3] He worked with Microsoft for a short period, as he went back to India due to a visa issue in 2007.[4][5]

Snapdeal

Bahl co-founded Snapdeal, a leading ecommerce company in India, along with his school friend Rohit Bansal on 4 February 2010.[6][7]

Titan Capital

Bahl has been an active early stage investor in technology companies again in partnership with his Snapdeal co-founder, Rohit Bansal. Through their early stage investment firm, Titan Capital, they have invested in over 150 startups in India, US and South East Asia including unicorns such as Ola, Razorpay, Urban Company, among others.[8]

Other Roles

Bahl has also been involved with various industry associations and think-tanks in leadership roles.

  • Member of Board of Governors: Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations[9]
  • Member of Executive Council: NASSCOM[10]
  • Chairman of CII National Committee on E-commerce[11]
  • Independent Director, Piramal Enterprises Limited[12]
  • Member, National Startup Advisory Council[13]

Awards and recognitions
  • BMA Entrepreneur of the Year 2014 [14]
  • ET Top 50 Entrepreneur of India 2014[15]
  • Ranked 25 on Fortune 40 under 40 most influential business leaders list 2014 [16]
  • EY Entrepreneur of the Year - Startup 2014 [17]
  • Nasscom NextGen Entrepreneur 2014 [18]
  • The Economic Times Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2015[19]
  • AIMA Transformational Business Leader of the Year [20]
  • Indian Affairs Business Leader of the Year 2015 [21]
  • The Joseph Wharton Award for Young Leadership 2018[22]
  • The Economic Times Comeback Award 2019[23]

Personal life

Bahl is married to Yashna, who ran a confectionery business.[24]

References
  1. "Kunal Bahl: Snapdeal's CEO created one of India's largest online marketplaces". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  2. "In the news". The Financial Express. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  3. Gupte, Masoom. "Here's what connects Snapdeal's Kunal Bahl and CEAT's Anant Goenka". The Economic Times. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  4. "All for love: When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella surrendered his Green Card for wife Anu".
  5. "Lunch with BS: Kunal Bahl". Business Standard. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  6. "The Evolution of Snapdeal". Forbes. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  7. "Supercharged". Business Today. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  8. "Titan Capital". titancapital.vc. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  9. "Board Of Governors | Think tank | ICRIER". icrier.org. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  10. "Executive Council". NASSCOM. 27 September 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  11. "Snapdeal's Kunal Bahl to lead CII's e-commerce committee". mint. 13 July 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  12. "Piramal Enterprises appoints Kunal Bahl, Suhail Nathani as independent directors to its board". The Economic Times. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  13. "Byju Raveendran, Kunal Bahl and 26 others nominated to National Startup Advisory Council". The Statesman. 20 January 2021. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  14. "36th BMA awards". The Hindustan Times. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  15. "ET Award". Orissa Diary. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  16. "40 under 40". Fortune. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  17. "EY entrepreneur of the year". The Financial Express. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  18. "innovate-india-challenge" "NASSCOM SPECIAL AWARDS". Nasscom. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  19. "ET Awards 2015: Snapdeal's Kunal Bahl wins Entrepreneur of the Year; here's what he said". The Economic Times. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  20. "AIMA Managing India Awards". AIMA. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  21. "India Leadership Conclave 2015".
  22. "Kunal Bahl, W'06, Eng'06". www.whartonny.com. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  23. "Tenacity of Snapdeal founders makes them 'Comeback Kid' in ET Startup Awards 2019". The Economic Times. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  24. "Flipkart CEO wanted to be a gamer, Snapdeal chief a food and film critic". Business Standard. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
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