13 Facts About ShareChat

ShareChat is an Indian social media and social networking service, developed by Bangalore based Mohalla Tech Pvt Ltd.

ShareChat has over 250 million monthly active users across 15 Indian languages.

ShareChat's application offers features that include private messaging, tagging and a personal messaging feature, enabling users to share videos, jokes, songs and other language based social content with other unknown users.

ShareChat's holding company, Mohalla Tech Pvt Ltd, was incorporated in January 2015 by three IIT Kanpur graduates— Ankush Sachdeva, Bhanu Pratap Singh and Farid Ahsan.

ShareChat is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, and presently employs over 2500 people.

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Key people at the hierarchy of ShareChat include Ankush Sachdeva, Farid Ahsan, and Bhanu Pratap Singh All of the co-founders featured in Forbes' 30 under 30 Asia 2018, having been recognised for their work with language-first approach in the social media landscape.

In September 2020, ShareChat raised $40 million from investors Dr Pawan Munjal of Hero MotoCorp, Ajay Shridhar Shriram of DCM Shriram, Twitter, SAIF Partners, Lightspeed Ventures and India Quotient.

In May 2022, ShareChat raised $300 million from Google, Times Group and Temasek Holdings at a valuation of $5 billion.

ShareChat laid off 101 employees or a quarter of its employees in May 2020.

ShareChat's app Moj, launched on 29 June 2020, is a short-video platform that emulates the features of TikTok, which was among the apps banned by the Indian government in June 2020.

ShareChat itself is a competitor to Helo, another social media platform that was owned by TikTok's parent company, Bytedance.

However, Bytedance has been accused by ShareChat of copying its design and UI pixel to pixel in 2018.

ShareChat has responded by officially denying any connection to Tek Fog, or Persistent Systems while describing The Wire's findings as "unfounded".