Ananth Narayanan

Mensa founder and CEO Ananth Narayanan says his grandfather’s brick business and his father’s time at Hindustan Motors inspired him to build and scale the tech-led house of brands

Mensa Brands eyes building $100-mn brands in the ethnic fashion category

In the last one year, Mensa Brands has acquired four brands in the ethnic fashion category. The company is looking to grow its ethnic fashion vertical to be a $300-million business in the next five years.

2021: From Zepto to Mensa Brands, here are the startups that raised big money in first round of funding

Many companies running Thrasio-like business models raised bigger-than-usual first institutional rounds

Mensa Brands acquires online kidswear brand LilPicks

LilPicks was founded by Riya Gupta in 2017 with a small seed fund and is growing at 3X of last year’s sales, according to the company.

Unlike the US where Amazon dominates, India is multi-platform market: Ananth Narayanan

I think having an owner mindset is quite critical for any start-up to be successful; you must treat yourself and think of yourself as a founder independent of equity ownership

Thrasio-type startup Mensa Brands raises $50 million from Accel, Falcon and others

Structured on the model of Thrasio, Mensa plans to partner and invest in digital-first brands and scale them exponentially.

Ex-Myntra chief Ananth Narayanan appointed Medlife CEO

This announcement comes on the heel of Medlife announcing the acquisition of Myra Medicines, an express pharmacy delivery service

Myntra eyes 25X sales, 4 lakh new customers from upcoming sale

Myntra's sale comes at a time when brick and mortal retail stores are offering heavy discounts to customers to clear stocks, ahead of the GST roll-out from July 1.

Young Turks in conversation with Deepika Padukone and Ananth Narayanan of Myntra

On Young Turks watch Deepika Padukone and CEO of Myntra, Ananth Narayanan, talk about their new business partnership.

Shopping to get costlier! Myntra plans to lower discounts

E-commerce player Myntra is planning to gradually roll back discounts and focus on high fashion sales event to eventually shift to a full-price products model, according to a report.

Myntra reduces discounting by 8%, aims at profitability in 2018

Even as the overall e-commerce market in India has been impacted due to demonetisation, Myntra claims its recent sale was a hit

Young Turks: Myntra CEO confident of profitability by next year

Myntra is set to be profitable this time next year says CEO Ananth Narayanan, perhaps making Myntra the first VC-funded e-commerce play to hit that milestone. Narayanan in a conversation with CNBC-TV18's Syna Dehnugara also spoke about Flipkart's race with Amazon, valuation markdowns and much more.

Myntra eyes 25-fold jump in revenue from 'End of Reason' sale

"We are expecting 25X sales (during EORS) compared to that on a normal day. We also expect this sale to see 2X growth over the previous edition that was held in July 2016," Myntra CEO Ananth Narayanan told PTI.

Myntra eyes 2.5 lakh new users in festive sale

Fashion e-tailer Myntra expects to see a five-fold growth in daily sale and get on board 2-2.5 lakh new users during the Big Billion Days (BBD) sale of its parent company, Flipkart.

We have no intention to merge Jabong with co: Myntra chief

Speaking to CNBC-TV18 about the buyout, Ananth Narayanan, CEO of Myntra said that he thinks of it as a partnership.

Aim to cross $1 billion revenue target in FY17: Myntra

Myntra's CEO, Ananth Narayanan in an exclusive conversation with CNBC-TV18's Rukmini Rao also says he expects to reach out to about 10 million customers by the end of the season.

InMobi`s Remarketing Platform Helps Indian eCommerce Companies Maximize Sales on Mobile Channels

InMobi, a global mobile advertising and discovery platform, announced today that its remarketing platform, powered by Miip, is enabling leading ...

Finally, Myntra agrees - App's not the only way

Myntra will scrap its mobile-only approach and will relaunch desktop website by June 1

Myntra aims crossing $1 billion annualised GMV by 2016: CEO

"Overall, I think we are on a great trajectory, we are roughly at about USD 500 million in GMV as of today. We are growing between 60-70 percent month-on-month... We will try and get to a billion dollar GMV in 2016," Myntra CEO Ananth Narayanan told reporters here.

All About You to be a $100 mn brand in 2 years: Myntra

Myntra, which went app-only earlier this year, has partnered with over 1,500 fashion and lifestyle brands like Nike, Jealous 21, Diesel, Timberland, Harley Davidson and Ferrari.

Myntra Celebrates Big Billion Days with Mega Discounts on Curated Styles

Myntra, India's leading platform for fashion brands & pioneer in m-commerce play, is celebrating Big Billion Days, to be held between the ...