Anupam Mittal is an Indian businessman and the founder and CEO of People Group. He is one of the seven judges on the 2021 business reality show “Shark Tank” airing on Sony Entertainment.
Screenshot of the People-Group website
Wiki/Biography
Anupam Mittal was born on Thursday, December 23, 1971, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (age 51; as of 2022). His zodiac sign is Sagittarius. From 1994 to 1997, he studied business and commerce at Boston College in Massachusetts, USA.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′7″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
His father’s name is Gopal Krishna Mittal and his mother’s name is Bhagwati Devi Mittal. Anupam Mittal has two sisters.
Anupam Mittal with his wife (left) and sister (right)
wife and children
Anupam Mittal married Aanchal Kumar on July 4, 2013 in Rajasthan, India. Aanchal Kumar is a model.
Anupam Mittal on her wedding day
The couple has a daughter.
Anupam Mittal with his daughter and wife
caste/race
marwadi
Profession
Shortly after graduating from college in 1998, Anupam Mittal started working as a product manager at MicroStrategy, a business intelligence software company in Washington, DC. He served in this position for four years. In 1997, Anupam Mittal started his own matchmaking website Sagaai.com. This online matrimonial website later named Shaadi.com provides a great platform for online matrimonial in India where one can meet his/her potential life partner. More than 3 million matchmaking stories are registered on the Shaadi.com website. The website is considered to be India’s largest and Asia’s leading matrimonial website.
Screenshot of Shaadi.com website
In 2003, Anupam Mittal invested as the producer of the Bollywood movie “Flavor”. In 2005, Anupam Mittal founded the mauj.com website, which provides mobile content such as video games, screen wallpapers, ringtones, Indian matrimonial apps, roaming apps, and messaging apps.
Snippet from the mauj.com website
Anupam Mittal founded the online real estate business in 2007. The business, named makaan.com, provides an online platform for property buyers and sellers to conduct online business transactions at budget prices.
Screenshot of makaan.com website
Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) was co-founded in 2004 by Anupam Mittal, who served as its chairman for some time. Later, Anupam Mittal invested Rs 10 million in OLA Cabs and became its partner, accounting for 2% of the shares. In 2018, he founded H2 India and serves as co-chairman. In 2009, he invested in the Bollywood movie “99” as a producer. Anupam Mittal is a board member of LetsVenture Online and Zepo, and serves as an advisor to ShaadiSaga, a website that plans online weddings in India, Grip Video game, and Kae Capital, a company that acquires capital for further growth. Anupam Mittal appeared in the business reality show called Shark Tank as one of the seven judges of the show.
Anupam Mittal on Shark Tank India
The other judges of the show include Vineeta Singh, Peyush Bansal, Namita Thapar, Ashneer Grover, Ghazal Alagh and Aman Gupta. These “Shark Tank” reality show judges are called “sharks.”
Facts/Trivia
- Anupam Mittal follows a non-vegetarian diet.
Anupam Mittal posts about his eating habits on Instagram
- In 2021, on the business reality show Shark Tank, the show’s judges selected budding business people to invest financially and intellectually in their small businesses so that they could grow higher in their respective businesses.
- Anupam Mittal often advertises luxury brands and advertisements on social media.
Anupam Mittal drives and endorses Lamborghini Huracan
- Anupam Mittal regularly practices boxing and it is his favorite time-killing activity.
Anupam Mittal (right) practices boxing
- According to Anupam Mittal, he invested in Interactive Avenues as an angel investor in 2007 and left the company a year later after becoming the company’s largest shareholder. In an interview with a media outlet, Anupam was asked how he started investing in startups at the beginning of his career. Then he replied:
I started angel investing as early as 2007, when I didn’t know it was called angel investing. I invested in a company called Interactive Avenues. I just know this team is smart. I sat with them at the airport, negotiated the terms and issued the check. I was the single largest shareholder in Interactive Avenues when it was sold about a year ago. It was also my first outlet. This was followed by smaller exits from start-ups such as LittleEyelabs and an online business events company. “
- Anupam was listed as one of the top 25 most searched people on the Internet by Week magazine. He is listed as one of the 50 most powerful people in India by BusinessWeek. In 2012 and 2013, he was named one of the top 100 icons of India’s digital ecosystem by IMPACT Digital Power. He has also been named among the top 100 NRIs in North America. He was subsequently awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year Award by IT People. He was also awarded the Karamveer Puraskar Medal.
- Anupam Mittal has more than 42,000 followers on Instagram. He remains very active on social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
- Anupam Mittal is a compassionate animal lover. He often posts photos of his pet dogs on social media.
Anupam Mittal with wife and daughter
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