Amit Jaipuria

Bengaluru Area, India India

Entrepreneur & Innovator

Photography / Arts

Amit graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999 with a double major in Finance and Entrepreneurship. With an interest for the consumer internet space, he returned to India to start work on a social networking product in 2000. While developing the concept, he successfully authored two patents US 7047202 and US 7761383 which were among the first patents written for the social networking industry. In 2002, he founded Greenthumb Garden Care, one of India's first startups in the home garden retail market with distribution across a network of retail stores such as supermarkets and garden centres. He exited from Greenthumb in 2005 after expanding its operations across Karnataka, Tamil...