The former Infosys engineer who is helping offline retailers go digital

ShopX co-founder Amit Sharma has built an app that's offered on an invite-only basis. His firm already has 50,000 customers, and aims to take that number up to 12 million

The founders of this tech start-up are in no rush to acquire massive scale. The customer-facing app they have developed to connect small retailers with suppliers and customers isn't available on the android playstore, but is being offered on an invite-only basis through their firm's own marketing team. Yet, ShopX, the Bengaluru-based company that was founded in 2015 by Amit Sharma and Apporva Jois, both former techies at IT major Infosys, claims to have already become profitable, at least at the gross level.

“Having spent time in Silicon Valley, I wanted to bring the best practices about building a great