ShareChat Revenue and User Statistics (2024)

What is ShareChat?

Founded in 2015 by Ankush Sachdeva, Bhanu Pratap Singh and Farid Ahsan, ShareChat is a social media and social networking app based in India. ShareChat app. Along with features such as private messaging, tagging and personal messaging, it allows users to share videos, jokes, songs and other language-based social content with other unknown users.

• Parent Company: Mohalla Tech
• Founded Date: January 2015
• Founders: Ankush Sachdeva, Bhanu Pratap Singh and Farid Ahsan
• Headquarter: Bengaluru, India
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• Google Play: Store Link
• App Store: Store Link

ShareChat Revenue Statistics

For the fiscal year 2022, ShareChat revenue was Rs 347 crore, against Rs 80.4 crore in the fiscal year 2021. More than 60% of ShareChat’s revenue came from the platform’s advertising services, which increased by 2.8X from Rs 77 crore in FY21 to Rs 212.2 crore in FY22.

In February 2021,  Twitter reportedly held talks to acquire ShareChat to create a global TikTok rival and expand in the Indian market. The sources said that Twitter offered to acquire the social media startup, which it is already an investor of, for $1.1 billion and an additional investment $900 million. However, the talks didn’t end up with a deal.

ShareChat Valuation

• According to a source familiar with the matter, ShareChat’s valuation has experienced a significant decline, plummeting below $2 billion from its previous valuation of nearly $5 billion, after the latest funding round. The company announced in April 2024 that it had raised $49 million in a convertible round. 
• Reuters reported that in May 2022 ShareChat raised nearly $300 million in fresh funding from Google, Times Group and Temasek Holdings, valuing the company at nearly $5 billion. 

• In July 2021, ShareChat raised $145 million  in fresh funding from, giving it a valuation of $2.88 billion. 
• In April 2021, ShareChat raised $502 million Series E, led by Tiger Global that valued the company at $2.1 billion.

ShareChat Investors

ShareChat investors include Twitter, Snap, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Tiger Global, Temasek, Moore Strategic Ventures, Google, Times Group, Alkeon Capital, Harbourvest, and India Quotient. 

ShareChat User Statistics

• ShareChat currently has more than 400 million users in the South Asian market.
• ShareChat’s sister firm Moj, a short video app, , along with Mohalla’s recently acquired MX TakaTak, has a combined user base of 300 million as of 2022.