What It Does: ShareChat is an Indian social media and social networking service.
Mission: To help individuals form substantial connections and stay entertained.
Size & Presence: The company is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, and presently employs over 500 people.
ShareChat's holding company, Mohalla Tech Pvt Ltd, was incorporated in January 2015 by three IIT Kanpur graduates Ankush Sachdeva, Bhanu Pratap Singh and Farid Ahsan. The company is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, and presently employs over 400 people.
Initially, ShareChat primarily worked as a content sharing platform, without any scope of users generating their own content. In April 2016, ShareChat enabled user-generated content creation on its platform, allowing its users to share their own posters and creative content. At around the same time, it also introduced open tagging for users, which would allow anyone to create their own hashtags depending on the content.
The key people at the hierarchy of ShareChat include Ankush Sachdeva (co-founder and Chief Executive Officer), Farid Ahsan (co-founder and Chief Operating Officer), Bhanu Pratap Singh (co-founder and Chief Technical Officer), and Debdoot Mukherjee (Vice President - Data Science). All of the co-founders featured in Forbes’ 30 under 30 Asia 2018 have been recognized for their work with the language-first approach in the social media landscape.[9][10] In the wake of the ban on TikTok by the Indian government in June 2020, ShareChat launched a similar Moj app and grew substantially.
ShareChat empowers over 160 million strong monthly active user communities to share their opinions, record their lives and make new friends - all within the comfort of their language of choice.
They also own the short video platform Moj, which is today India's preferred short video destination with tens of millions of users from across the world. The platform has been designed for artists and creators to create innovative short video content and display their creativity to millions, globally.
The team at ShareChat is spearheading India's internet revolution. By providing a meaningful social experience, ShareChat is determining how the next billion users will interact on the internet.