Amit Chaudhary
Co-founder, Lenskart
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
About
Amit Chaudhary is a co-founder of Lenskart, the Gurugram-based eyewear company that designs, manufactures and sells prescription glasses, sunglasses and contact lenses through its website, app and stores. He joined Peyush Bansal's company, then called Valyoo Technologies, as a co-founder in 2009, when it was running Flyrr.com, an eyewear e-commerce site aimed at the US. In November 2010 the team closed that site and launched Lenskart.com in India, first selling contact lenses and adding eyeglasses and sunglasses in early 2011; Sumeet Kapahi came on board as the third co-founder that September. Chaudhary is from Kolkata, where he attended Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, and holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from BIT Mesra. A 2023 profile in DNA described him as Lenskart's chief operating officer and credited him with pushing the company's expansion into physical stores. He sits on Lenskart's board and was one of the promoter shareholders who sold shares in the company's initial public offering, which opened on 31 October 2025.
Lenskart's early years involved several experiments: the company also ran Watchkart, Bagskart and Jewelskart before shutting them in 2014 to concentrate on eyewear, and Valyoo Technologies was renamed Lenskart Solutions in 2015. Investors over the following decade included IDG Ventures India, TPG Growth, PremjiInvest and SoftBank Vision Fund, whose $275 million investment in December 2019 took the valuation past $1 billion. In 2022 Lenskart bought a majority stake in Japanese eyewear brand Owndays. In the October 2025 IPO, Chaudhary was listed alongside Peyush Bansal, Neha Bansal and Sumeet Kapahi as a promoter selling shareholder.
Source: en.wikipedia.org