Manish Taneja
Co-Founder, Purplle
Manish heads Purplle.com and is responsible for its overall growth. He has spent last 7 years in the Indian E-Commerce Ecosystem. He is responsible for building Purplle’s differentiated supply, content and personalisation technology stack.
Founded in 2012 and backed by IvyCap, JSW and Blume Ventures, Purplle is a leading online platform in the beauty space with over 600 brands, over 7M unique visitors a month and over 500,000 loyal repeat customers. Purplle’s technology capability using Augmented Reality helps women choose the best and appropriate beauty products virtually.
Purplle has also built some of the most successful online first brands in the makeup and skincare categories.
With over 300 employees and growing at more than 100% year on year, Purplle is well positioned to be a leader in the Indian beauty space.
Prior to co-founding Purplle, Manish worked with Fidelity Growth Partners India (now called Eight Roads), Avendus Capital and Lehman Brothers.
He holds a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Information & Communication Technology, from IIT Delhi.
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