Sulekha
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| Type of business | Venture-Funded |
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Type of site
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Web Portal |
| Available in | English |
| Headquarters | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Area served | India, United States, Canada |
| Founder(s) |
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| Chairman | Param Parameswaran |
| CEO | Satya Prabhakar |
| Employees | 1300 |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 1493(27 April 2015[update]) |
| Advertising | Online |
| Registration | Optional |
| Current status | Active |
Sulekha is a digital business in India. Sulekha has 14 offices and 1,300+ employees across India.
Satya Prabhakar and Sangeeta Kshettry founded Sulekha as a platform enabling interactions among Indians. Sulekha raised its initial investment from Indigo Monsoon Group when Param Parameswaran (as Chairman) and Harish Raghavan joined its Board. Param Parameswaran actively advised and helped focus the company on its India expansion in 2007, and expand its digital and mobile platform to connect users and businesses for local services. At this time, Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) invested in the company, and Promod Haque, Senior Managing Partner of NVP, joined Sulekha’s Board. In 2011, Mitsui & Co. (Tokyo), a Global Fortune 200 company, led the Series B round of investment with NVP also participating. In April 2015, GIC, the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Singapore, led a further round of investment along with NVP into the company.
Sulekha commissioned an animated commercial called "Arjuna the Archer" from J. Walter Thompson which emulated the style of Patta Chitra Katha, a traditional form of leaf painting folk-art. The advertisement won the 2008 Cannes Lions Bronze Award for "Animation under film craft".
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