Delhivery is an Indian supply chain services company.
Suraj Saharan and Mohit Tandon were working at the management consulting arm of Bain & Co in 2008 when Sahil Barua joined the company. One of the things they had in common was that they wanted to start their own venture. They took a six month sabbatical together. The three already had an interest in the internet space, and the numbers indicated that the growth would be staggering. It also helped that they were friends of Zomato co-founders Pankaj Chaddah and Deepinder Goyal. After the sabbatical and three years into their consulting jobs they decided to quit to start up.
They started tying up with local restaurants and fulfilling their orders for them in under half an hour. Three years down the line, after setting up Delhivery, they needed a person to fill the gap in the tech department. Bhavesh Manglani was working with Idea Cellular in Ahmedabad when he heard the startup plan from Sahil he was on board immediately. When Bhavesh shifted to handling operations on the team, the 5th co-founder, Kapil Bharti replaced him in November 2011. Business was good for Delhivery. This was when their investor Abhishek Goyal set the ball rolling for them in the e-commerce space. They soon realised that the problem was that the traditional delivery partners had not understood the scope of e-commerce entirely. The traditional delivery partners also did not understand that e-commerce delivery was fundamentally different from traditional delivery. So Delhivery’s focus is mostly on the e-commerce segment, and has shown healthy growth.
