Rahul Yadav Biography

Rahul Yadavbis is an Indian entrepreneur born in 1988, known as a co-founder and former CEO of Gurgaon-based real-estate search portal Housing.com. According to India sources Forbes, Housing.com sold eight million dollars’ worth of real estate in its first week. For his tenure at Housing.com, Yadav made the Forbes India list of “30 Under 30” young entrepreneurs.

His by Housing.com’s board of directors attracted considerable media attention. Later, Yadav announced that he would be launching a new venture. As of August 2015, he was negotiating with Paytm for funds for the new project.

Later in the month of August 2015, Yadav announced his latest venture, Intelligent Interfaces which would assist companies and organizations in processes automation. Intelligent Interfaces is backed by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, co-founders of the Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart and Youwecan ventures also announced that they would be participating in the seed round as well.

Rahul Yadav Age

Rahul is 30 years old as of 2018.

Rahul Yadav Wife| Relationship

Rahul got engaged to Delhi-based Karishma Khokhar in a ceremony in New Delhi on March 12. is an investment banker with ICICI Securities, with a background as an engineer from Delhi Technical University and an MBA in Finance from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad.

Rahul Yadav Net Worth| Anarock| Now

ANAROCK hires Rahul Yadav, the former CEO of Housing.com

Rahul Yadav, co-founder and former CEO of Housing.com, has now joined Indian real estate industry stalwart Anuj Puri’s newly launched venture ANAROCK Property Consultants as Chief Product & Technology Officer.

ANAROCK Property Consultants, a real estate brokerage, investment and fund platform, is targeting a total portfolio value of $500 million for its fund business by 2020. Yadav will be responsible for the development of a technology-driven online brokerage platform for Puri’s venture that would eventually attract international investments.

Rahul Yadav Early Life| Education| Career

Born to middle-class parents from Alwar, Rajasthan, he enrolled at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2007, specializing in metallurgy. Rahul served as the representative and secretary for the university’s student association. Rahul dropped out of college in his final year after first building Exambaba.com, an online question bank of old exam papers that IIT Bombay asked Yadav to close. In the process of building Exambaba.com, he had learned programming, which enabled him to subsequently design a series of Google applications. In 2012, Rahul along with eleven other classmates co-founded Housing.com, after they had a difficult time finding accommodation in Mumbai. He came up with a new venture related to virtual, augmented reality and interfaces.

Rahul Yadav

Rahul Yadav started Housing.co.in in 2012, and was later renamed Housing.com. He says that he started up Housing.com in response to a severe housing shortage in India. By mid-2015, under Yadav’s leadership, Housing.com had three offices in Powai, a suburb of Mumbai. The site aims to increase transparency in the real estate market. Its original line-up of products includes map-based rental search, verified purchase of apartments, buildings and even land in villages and rural areas and ‘Slice View’ which allows customers to take a virtual tour of chosen properties of big real estate companies. Having successfully solicited major investors to back the site, Yadav retained only a five per cent share in the business which later made it possible for investors to oust him.

Housing.com was named one of the hottest tech startups in 2012. SoftBank funded the business, and the fledgling company also partnered with Tata Housing and Tata Value Homes.

Rahul came into limelight for his controversial remarks about Vishal Sikka (CEO of Infosys), founders of Ola, Zomato and the announcement of distribution of his personal equity in the online real estate company, worth around 200 crore rupees, to its 2,251 employees.

In June 2015, Rahul was fired by the company board citing “his behaviour towards investors, ecosystem and the media”. The shares of his business that Rahul donated to his former employees was considered to be the equivalent to a year’s salary. In an apparent explanation of his actions, Yadav said, “I’m just 26 and it’s too early in life to get serious about money, etc,” in an interview with the Financial Express.

In September 2015, Rahul announced his new venture Intelligent Interfaces. The company had secured investment from co-founders of Flipkart, Paytm, YouWeCan and Micromax. Intelligent Interfaces is reportedly a data analytics company and visualisation company catering to e-commerce companies.

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