Founder Profile
Sachin Bansal
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Sachin Bansal?
Sachin Bansal is a founder of Flipkart, which was founded in 2007 with Binny Bansal. Sachin Bansal is a founder of Navi Technologies, which was founded in 2018 with Ankit Agarwal.
- Companies founded
- Flipkart and Navi Technologies
- Founded
- 2007
- Co-founders
- Binny Bansal
Background
Computer Science graduate from IIT Delhi and former software engineer at Amazon Web Services.
Founding Story
Sachin Bansal founded Navi in 2018. After orchestrating the massive $16 billion sale of Flipkart to Walmart (and subsequently being ousted from the company), he took his massive billion-dollar personal payout and aggressively pivoted into fintech. He founded Navi with the explicit goal of completely disrupting the highly rigid, deeply bureaucratic Indian banking sector by offering instant, app-based loans.
Sachin Bansal was born in 1981 in Chandigarh. Education: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi; St. Anne's Convent School.
Bansal was born on August 5, 1981. He co-founded Flipkart in 2007 with Binny Bansal, to whom he is not related, and served as its chief executive and chairman during more than 11 years there. He left in 2018 after selling his 5.5 percent stake to Walmart.