Archive · 23 Jan 2026
ShareChat Co-founder Ankush Sachdeva's Journey to Success
Ankush Sachdeva is a co-founder of ShareChat, a popular social media app in India.
He graduated from IIT Kanpur and tried to start 17 different companies before he succeeded.
Each time his companies failed, he learned from his mistakes.
Finally, in 2015, he and his friends started ShareChat.
They noticed that many people in small towns and villages in India did not have apps in their own languages.
So, they created ShareChat in Hindi and other Indian languages.
The app became very popular and is now worth a lot of money.
It has over 160 million users and is a big success.
Ankush Sachdeva, an IIT Kanpur graduate, founded 17 startups before succeeding with ShareChat.
ShareChat was created in 2015 to cater to non-metro India with content in local languages.
The app is available in 15 Indian languages, including Hindi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Bengali, and Punjabi.
ShareChat's valuation reached Rs 40,000 crore ($5 billion) by 2022, with over 160 million active users by 2021.
The company is headquartered in Bengaluru, India, with a global presence in the USA and Europe.
- Who
- Ankush Sachdeva, co-founder of ShareChat
- What
- Built ShareChat, a local language social media platform
- When
- Founded in 2015, achieved success by 2022
- Where
- Headquartered in Bengaluru, India, with global presence
- Why
- To provide a platform for non-metro India in local languages
- Name
- Ankush Sachdeva
- Education
- IIT Kanpur, Computer Science
- Startups Founded
- 17 (before success)
- Company
- ShareChat
- Company Valuation
- Rs 40,000 crore ($5 billion)
- Active Users
- Over 160 million (2021)
- Headquarters
- Bengaluru, India
- Global Presence
- India, USA, Europe