Ramakant Sharma is Co-Founder and CEO at Livspace, a technology-driven home interiors and renovation platform that achieved unicorn status in 2022. He plays a central role in driving technological innovations and leading operations for the company.

Ramakant graduated from IIT Kanpur with a B.Tech in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering and holds an MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Before co-founding Livspace in 2014, he was Vice President of Engineering at Myntra, a leading fashion eCommerce startup acquired by Flipkart.

Ramakant co-founded Livspace with college friend Anuj Srivastava after experiencing the fragmented home interiors industry firsthand. He also co-founded VioletBag and is an active angel investor in over 116 startups including unicorns Purplle and CoinSwitch.

Livspace raised $527M across 15 funding rounds and achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in February 2022 with a $180M Series F led by KKR. The company serves customers across India, Singapore, and the Middle East with over 22 experience centers.

Livspace has completed over 120,000 rooms and sold more than 7.5 million SKUs through its platform. The company was recognized as one of the most innovative companies in the world by Fast Company in 2017 and won the Red Herring Top 100 Global award in 2018.