Peyush Bansal (Indian Entrepreneur) Biography

Peyush Bansal is an Entrepreneur and founder of Lenskart. Peyush Bansal’s birth date is 26 April 1985. Peyush Bansal’s birthplace is New Delhi. Peyush Bansal is an Indian businessman and co-founder and CEO of the eyewear company Lenskart. In the year 2022, he is in the news for joining Sony TV’s business reality show Shark Tank India as a shark. Lenskart owner Peyush Bansal was born on 26 April 1985 in New Delhi.

Peyush Bansal Bio data

Body Measurement & Physical States

Peyush Bansal Net Worth, Income & Salary

 Peyush Bansal, net worth is around ₹600 crores. He is the owner of Lenskart company, which is famous for selling glasses online. He is known to lead a luxurious life with many luxury vehicles like BMW, Mercedes, Audi, and Land Rover to roam around. In addition, he has also invested in an employee engagement platform at Feedo and dailyobjects.com, a lifestyle brand.

Peyush Bansal Family Member and their Relationship

Peyush Bansal Career

Peyush Bansal is an Indian Entrepreneur and Businessman. After completing his studies, he resigned after working for one year at the Microsoft company in America.

And started his career with his family business. And started his company Lenskart in 2020. Peyush Bansal started Lenskart Seeing the growing problem of eyesight in India and other countries, he started selling lenses on Lenskart.

When Peyush Bansal started that company, only lenses were being sold by that company. As the company grew, he decided to sell eyewear and sunglasses to make up for the higher growth of the company.

Peyush started Lenskart along with two of his best friends Sumit Kapahi and Amit Chowdhary. Peyush started SearchMyCampus.com in 2007 to help college kids studying in college.

Peyush Bansal Wife, Marriage, Child

Peyush Bansal was happily married to Nidhi Mittal on 12 June 2011. After that, they had a son. Whose age is 3 years. blessed with a boy. His name is Evan. He has a small family which he loves the most.     

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Interesting Facts about Peyush Bansal

• He was born and raised in Delhi. He has completed his schooling at Don Bosco School.  
• Valyoo Technologies Pvt Limited (Lenskart) was founded in 2010 by Peyush and his friends Amit Chaudhary and Sumeet Kapahi.
• Before starting Lenskart, he was solving housing and related problems of college students through an online portal called SeachMyCampus.com.
• He judges India’s first-of-its-kind reality show- Shark Tank Season 1. It is basically a business reality TV show that provides budding entrepreneurs with a platform to showcase their talent and entrepreneurial skills and get some business prospects and investments. It is basically the Indian version of Shark Tank USA.
• In 2019 Peyush was listed in Fortune India’s- Best 40 under 40 Entrepreneurs”
• He was honoured with the British Association Medal by McGill University in 2006.
• Valyoo Technologies (i.e., Lenskart today) won the Red Herring Top 100 Asia Award in 2012.
• His company has been also awarded the Marketing Sherpa Email Awards for the year 2014.
• In 2015, Peyush was also awarded with India TV Yuva Awards (in Business Cadre).
• His hobbies include Travelling, reading books, listening to books, writing etc. He also loves to binge-watch suspense thriller shows/ web series.
• Piyush’s must-read books include- The High-Performance Entrepreneur by Subruto Bagchi, No Rules by Reed Hastings, Dream with Your Eyes Open by Ronnie Screwvala, Team of Teams, Good to Great.

Peyush Bansal Investments

Peyush has his wise hands on Investments. He has also won the Red Herring Top 100 Asia Award in 2012. His investments totaled $ 700,000 in Feedo in August 2020. He made investments on dailyobjects.com.

Peyush Bansal Awards & Nominations

• Peyush Bansal was ranked in the list of Fortune India’s ‘Best 40 under 40 entrepreneurs-2019’.

• The company was also awarded the Marketing Sherpa Email Awards 2014 for the Create and Design – ECommerce category with strong determination and innovation with new technologies. 

•  The India TV Yuva Awards on the 2015 business charts.

Interesting Facts and Trivia

• Peyush Bansal is an IITian.
• Peyush Bansal has worked in Microsoft Company.
• Peyush Bansal started his first venture with just 25 lakhs rupees.
• Peyush Bansal has worked as a part-time receptionist.

• Peyush Bansal’s first venture was SearchMyCampus.com.
• Peyush Bansal got the idea of Lenskart when he came to know that 40% of the World’s blind are in India.
• Ratan Tata and S Gopalakrishnan are the two biggest investors of Lenskart.

Peyush Bansal Controversy

Shark Tank India’s episode from January 9 2022 included Peyush Bansal, who was heard saying, CA se duur rehna (stay away from Chattered Accounting). His remark sparked a barrage of responses online, which led to the hashtag #boycottlenskart becoming popular among users. Bansal has since apologised after receiving severe reaction.