Murugavel Janakiraman tells the story of starting Matrimony.com

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2003

Matrimony.com Ltd is India’s leading internet conglomerate that manages marquee brands such as Bharat Matrimony, Community Matrimony, Elite Matrimony, and Mandap.com, each of which has its own success story. 

Matrimony’s founder and CEO Murugavel Janakiraman was working as a techie in the US in the early days. when he created a website in his leisure time just to connect Tamil People living outside India. When the IT sector was affected Jankiraman lost his job and was mandatory to return to India. 

Matrimony website, which he started as a passion in 2001 by financing $10 per month, became his full-time profession in 2004. Two decades down the line, Matrimony.com with Rs 2,300 market capital touches the lives of nearly five million worldwide powered by a regional network of portals in 17 languages. It was India’s first pure-play Consumer Internet Company.

The internet conglomerate provides both matchmaking and marriage-related services through websites, mobile sites, mobile apps, and more than 130 company-owned retail outlets. The group has over 300 community and religion-based sites under the brand communitymatrimony.com 

He was working as a consultant in the IT sector in the US in the late nineties. At that time, there was a distraction from e-commerce and community portals. He was very good at programming skills. Since He came from Tamil Nadu, thought of doing something for the Tamil community living outside India.

He decided to start some online services for the community. Such was his passion that worked as a consultant during the day, and in the evening and weekends, He was working on the portal to offer services such as Tamil calendar, festival reminder, discussion forum, and a matrimony section for the community. 

He realized the popularity of the Tamil matrimony section, then He decided to launch a full-grown website for matrimony in 2001. He started Telugu, Marathi, and other community websites as well by 2004 considering the demand. Bharat Matrimony became one of the organizations to club all communities’ matrimony.

The purpose of Matrimony.com is to build a better Bharat with happy marriages. Good citizens make a good country and good citizens come from good parenting and good parenting comes from happy marriages.

Now India also developed which has changed the way people look at their life partners. Categories used to be the last thing that people looked at the pandemic has increased digital adoption in India, especially video formats. While many businesses were affected   due to lockdown, online matrimony upward  its swing

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