Whenever the vision got blurred, Peyush Bansal adjusted his focus. In a decade, he's built Lenskart into India's largest eyewear company and a profitable unicorn
Bengaluru, 2011. “Kitna paisa chahiye (how much money do you want)?” was the pointed question. IDG Ventures (now Chiratae Ventures) saw immense value in Valyoo Technologies. Co-founded by Peyush Bansal, Sumeet Kapahi, Amit Chaudhary and Neha Bansal in 2008, the Delhi-based ecommerce firm rolled out Lenskart in November 2010 and started selling contact lenses. Over the next few months, Lenskart gradually dabbled into spectacles and sunglasses, the bootstrapped business gathered steam, and the co-founders who started Flyrr—an online store to sell spectacles, sunglasses and contact lenses in the US in 2009—were now set to get their first VC (venture capital) cheque.