Groww investors reap bumper returns; Lightspeed’s India rethinkHappy Wednesday! Groww delivered strong gains to early investors after the IPO lock-in expired. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dis...
13 May, 2026, 09.17 AM IST
Two senior executives exit ShareChat amid ongoing workforce cutsAnurag Verma and Shashank Shekhar are leaving amid a period of steady workforce reductions by the Google-backed company. The company aims t...
20 Feb, 2025, 09.14 PM IST
Gen Z and millennials constituted over 70% of monthly active users on ShareChat this yearA total of 287 million audio chat room sessions were hosted in a month. Further, it said a total of 14 billion minutes of audio was live-st...
15 Dec, 2023, 08.38 PM IST
ShareChat CCO Ajit Varghese resigns, to leave company in JanuaryVarghese joined the company in 2020 as its CCO. He was pivotal in expanding the platform’s revenue efforts and building a monetisation appr...
28 Dec, 2022, 11.27 AM IST
Sharechat asks The Wire to take down story on the Tek Fog appThe Indian social media company has asked The Wire to take down a report that claims Sharechat is used to spread fake news and propaganda.
19 Oct, 2022, 04.10 PM IST
ShareChat introduces slew of employee policies around childcare, fertility, miscarriage, adoptionEmployees will now get five days a year for emergencies related to the health or education of their children. The company will also provide...
07 Mar, 2022, 12.15 PM IST
Tamil Nadu Elections 2021 | ShareChat experiments with political ads as AIADMK, DMK woo votersShareChat is currently running a pilot campaign with the AIADMK for the upcoming Tamil Nadu elections. DMK MLA Palanivel Thiagarajan has al...
02 Apr, 2021, 06.01 AM IST
ShareChat adds $14 million to its ESOP pool, taking its ESOP pool to $35 millionThe scheme would be applicable for the existing employees who were on the company’s payroll on June 30, 2020. Presently, ShareChat employs ...
23 Sep, 2020, 11.54 AM IST
ShareChat raises $40 million in bridge roundShareChat's existing investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Saif Partners, Twitter, TrustBridge Partners, India Quotient and Shunwe...
27 Jul, 2020, 12.21 PM IST
ShareChat sees 15 pc increase in daily average users during lockdownThe Bengaluru-based company, which has about 60 million monthly active users (MAUs), has also stepped up efforts to weed out misinformation...
12 Apr, 2020, 04.52 PM IST
ShareChat takes the shovel to 54,000 accounts, half-a-million content itemsPlatform has been on a clean-up spree since February to curb fake news, hate speech, spam, misinformation.
18 Apr, 2019, 07.53 AM IST
ShareChat takes down half a million pieces of content, 54K accounts removedShareChat, a vernacular social network that supports 14 Indian languages, has about 45 million monthly active users.
17 Apr, 2019, 10.30 PM IST
ShareChat bans 50,000 in dicey content clean-upSocial media startup takes action to keep pornographic, violent & fake content off platform.
21 Jan, 2019, 08.56 AM IST
ShareChat drags Bytedance to court over copyright rowBesides mentioning of ad-words ‘ambushing’, ShareChat in its submissions on Friday also alleged that Helo was a “complete copy” of its prod...
31 Oct, 2018, 07.28 AM IST
India Quotient to get 25x returns in Sharechat deal1-2% stake picked up by China’s Hillhouse Capital in a deal pegged at around Rs 50 crore.
17 Oct, 2018, 08.13 AM IST
ShareChat raises Rs 720 crore, valuation may touch Rs 3.3k crRound led by Shunwei Capital, along with Morningside & DST Global affiliate Jesmond.
20 Sep, 2018, 08.44 AM IST
ShareChat Valuation Jumps 7x to $460 millionRound led by existing backer Shunwei Capital with new investors Morningside and a DST Global affiliate
19 Sep, 2018, 09.27 PM IST