3 New Sharks This Time! Meet Azhar Iqubal, InShorts Co-Founder Who's Joined Shark Tank India 3
After Oyo's Ritesh Agarwal and Zomato's Deepinder Goyal, meet Azhar Iqubal, the co-founder and CEO of InShorts who will join Shark Tank India season 3.
One of the most popular reality shows Shark Tank India is returning with season 3. In the third installment, there will be three new additions to the judge's panel. While the makers have already revealed the names of two of them - Ritesh Agarwal, Founder and CEO, OYO Rooms and Deepinder Goyal, Founder and CEO, Zomato, they have now unveiled the name of the third new Shark as well.
Meet Azhar Iqubal, the co-founder and CEO of InShorts who will join Shark Tank India season 3
The IIT dropout who started India's highest-rated and leading English news app
Now 30 years old, Azhar Iqubal co-founded Inshorts, a news aggregation platform that serves news in concise and easily digestible form in under 60 words, at the age of 23. The idea behind this app was to cater to the millennial generation which has grown up in the digital age and often doesn't like reading lengthy news articles.
He along with Deepit Purkayastha and Anunay Arunav -- all of them were dropouts from college -- started their entrepreneurial journey in 2013. With more than 10 million active users today, Inshorts is India's highest-rated and leading English news app that has so far raised $64 million.
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Azhar Iqubal has graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Apart from Inshorts, he has also co-founded an app called Public, a location-based application that was launched in the year 2019.
It is India's largest location-based social network. He was honoured with the Business World Young Entrepreneur Award.
"I started my entrepreneurial journey in 2013 along with my Indian Institute of Technology¡¯s classmates Anunay Pandey and Deepit Purkayastha. We observed that Millennials were increasingly distancing themselves from the concept of reading news and the major hindrance was the long and bulky nature of the content and lack of reading time. Realising the issue, we decided to create a Facebook page called News in Shorts which focused on giving the readers quick summaries of news stories within the limit of 60 words. Today, Inshorts is India¡¯s highest-rated and #1 English news app with more than 10 million active users," he said in an interview.
Shark Tank India season 3 will mark the return of Aman Gupta (Co-Founder and CMO of boAt), Amit Jain (CEO and Co-founder of CarDekho Group, InsuranceDekho.com), Anupam Mittal (Founder and CEO of Shaadi.com ¨C People Group), Namita Thapar (Executive Director of Emcure Pharmaceuticals), Vineeta Singh (Co-Founder and CEO of SUGAR Cosmetics) and Peyush Bansal (Founder and CEO of Lenskart.com).
From start date to new Sharks, here is everything you need to know about Shark Tank India season 3.
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