Swiggy
Founders
Sriharsha Majety, Nandan Reddy, Rahul Jaimini · Founded 2014 · HQ today: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Swiggy was founded by Sriharsha Majety, Nandan Reddy, Rahul Jaimini in 2014. It is now led by Sriharsha Majety.
In 2013, after completing his engineering degree at BITS Pilani and an MBA at IIM Calcutta, Sriharsha Majety teamed up with fellow BITS alumnus Nandan Reddy to launch Bundl Technologies, a logistics software startup designed to help small e-commerce merchants ship goods across India. Within a year, Bundl folded due to intense competition and shifting logistics dynamics. Refusing to abandon entrepreneurship, Majety and Reddy analyzed the rapid rise of on-demand platforms like DoorDash in the US and Meituan in China. They realized that urban Indian consumers were starved for reliable food delivery. In August 2014, joined by tech co-founder Rahul Jaimini, they launched Swiggy with just six delivery executives and 25 restaurant partners in Koramangala, Bengaluru. To ensure flawless execution, Majety and Reddy personally monitored orders and resolved customer complaints on the phone. By guaranteeing deliveries with no minimum order thresholds and building an app that allowed customers to follow their delivery partner on a live Google Map, Swiggy ignited viral adoption across tech hubs and urban universities.
| Founder | Role at founding | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Sriharsha Majety | Co-founder & Group CEO | — |
| Nandan Reddy | Co-founder & Head of Innovation | — |
| Rahul Jaimini | Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer | — |
Indian entrepreneur and BITS Pilani graduate.
Sriharsha Majety co-founded Swiggy in 2014. After the absolute failure of his first logistics startup (Bundl), he pivoted aggressively. Recognizing that existing food delivery services in India were incredibly unreliable, he designed Swiggy to own its entire delivery fleet, absolutely revolutionizing the speed and reliability of Indian food delivery. Sriharsha Majety was born in 1986.
Indian entrepreneur and BITS Pilani graduate.
Nandan Reddy co-founded Swiggy in 2014. Alongside Majety, he was absolutely critical in building the initial operational framework, meticulously managing the highly complex logistics required to route thousands of delivery drivers across the chaotic, unpredictable streets of Bangalore during the company's hyper-growth phase. Nandan Reddy was born in 1987.
Indian software engineer and IIT Kharagpur graduate.
Rahul Jaimini co-founded Swiggy in 2014. Coming from Myntra, he served as the absolutely critical technical architect. He built the initial, highly robust app and routing algorithms that allowed Swiggy to process massive volumes of real-time orders without crashing, before leaving the company in 2020. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
Rohit Kapoor
CEO, Food Marketplace
As CEO of Food Marketplace (recruited from OYO), he executes the absolute critical day-to-day battle against Zomato, fiercely defending Swiggy's market share in tier-1 Indian cities.
Rahul Bothra
Group Chief Financial Officer
As CFO, he instilled critical financial discipline, aggressively slashing unprofitable city operations to heavily prepare the massive decacorn for its highly anticipated IPO.
Sriharsha Majety
Co-founder & Group CEO
An alumnus of BITS Pilani and IIM Calcutta with investment banking experience at Nomura, Majety's focus on execution excellence and quick commerce built one of India's most ubiquitous consumer brands.
Nandan Reddy
Co-Founder
As Co-Founder, he remains the absolute operational anchor, heavily driving Swiggy's massive strategic expansion into the highly lucrative 'Instamart' quick-commerce sector.
Swiggy was founded in August 2014 by Sriharsha Majety (Group CEO), Nandan Reddy, and Rahul Jaimini. In 2021, long-time executive Phani Kishan Addepalli was also elevated to the title of co-founder.
Sriharsha Majety and Nandan Reddy met as undergraduate students at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, in Rajasthan. They formed a close friendship based on shared entrepreneurial ambition and remained in contact after graduation.
After graduating from BITS Pilani, Nandan Reddy worked as a business consultant at SourceTrace Systems, a software firm for agricultural supply chains. He later launched a restaurant named "Ganti" in Bengaluru, giving him firsthand insight into restaurant margins, kitchen logistics, and customer pain points.
Rahul Jaimini, a computer science graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, was a former software engineer at NetApp and Myntra. Jaimini single-handedly built Swiggy's initial tech stack, consumer smartphone app, restaurant partner portal, and driver dispatch algorithms.
During the first six months, the founders personally walked the streets of Koramangala convincing skeptical restaurant owners to join. They frequently faced delivery boy shortages, prompting the founders themselves to hop on motorbikes to deliver food orders to customers on time.
Sriharsha Majety served as CEO directing business strategy, investor fundraising, and capital allocation; Nandan Reddy managed restaurant onboarding, city operations, and customer service; and Rahul Jaimini directed engineering, software infrastructure, and mobile app design.
Phani Kishan Addepalli joined Swiggy in 2015 as one of its earliest employees, leading corporate strategy, data analytics, and new business incubation (including spearheading Instamart and Supr Daily). In July 2021, the board officially elevated him to co-founder.
In May 2020, after six years as Chief Technology Officer, Rahul Jaimini stepped down to co-found Pesto Tech, pursuing his passion for remote developer education while retaining his equity ownership and a seat on Swiggy's board of directors.
In April 2015, after demonstrating exceptional customer retention and rapid order growth in Koramangala and Indiranagar, the founders raised a $2 million Series A round co-led by Accel and SAIF Partners (now Elevation Capital).
Nandan Reddy transitioned from day-to-day operations to head Innovation and Strategic Initiatives at Swiggy, leading exploratory projects including Swiggy Genie, Swiggy Minis, and experimental food formats.
The founders instituted core principles including "Customer Obsession," "Always Be Curious," "Display Bias for Action," and "Act Like an Owner," creating a high-ownership engineering culture focused on speed and customer satisfaction.
Through comprehensive Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), the founders structured equity compensation that created hundreds of dollar millionaires among Swiggy employees, engineers, and ground operations managers at its November 2024 IPO.
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