Aman Gupta

Timeline

1. 1982Born on 4 March in Delhi to Neeraj Gupta and Jyoti Kochar Gupta, the second of three children.
2. 1990sSchooling at Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram, followed by a BCom honours degree at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College under Delhi University.
3. About 2002Qualifies as a chartered accountant, described at the time as one of the youngest in the country, and joins the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
4. Early 2000sJoins Citi as an assistant manager and later moves to KPMG as a senior management consultant.
5. Mid 2000sWorks with his father's business while studying for an MBA in finance and strategy at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
6. 2007Co-founds Advanced Telemedia Private Limited and becomes its chief executive, his first full time company.
7. 2008Marries Priya Dagar after a courtship that began with a chase across railway stations.
8. 2010sRuns and closes five ventures of his own, an experience he later credits for the marketing instinct he brought to boAt.
9. November 2016Starts the consumer electronics brand boAt with Sameer Mehta, selling earphones to young Indian buyers online.
10. 2017The brand records about 31 crore rupees of revenue in its first full financial year.
11. 2019boAt becomes the largest earwear brand in India and takes the Businessworld Young Entrepreneur award.
12. 2020Named Entrepreneur of the Year and included in Businessworld's 40 Under 40 list.
13. January 2021Warburg Pincus leads an investment of close to 100 million dollars in Imagine Marketing.
14. April 2021Qualcomm Ventures invests in the company, three months after the Warburg round.
15. December 2021Shark Tank India begins on SonyLIV with Gupta as one of the investors.
16. January 2022Imagine Marketing files draft papers for a 2,000 crore rupee initial public offering.
17. October 2022Raises 500 crore rupees from a Warburg Pincus affiliate and Malabar Investments and withdraws the listing papers.
18. 2023Fiscal year ends with a net loss of about 129.5 crore rupees as the smartwatch push and inventory build weigh on the books.
19. 2024A second loss making year, of about 79.7 crore rupees, in the financial year to March.
20. February 2024boAt products are seen on the British prime minister Rishi Sunak and Gupta writes about it on social media.
21. March 2024Receives the National Creators Award for celebrity creator from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
22. April 2025Imagine Marketing files draft papers confidentially with SEBI, reported to be aimed at a valuation near 1.5 billion dollars.
23. September 2025Gaurav Nayyar becomes chief executive, Sameer Mehta moves to executive director and Gupta becomes a non-executive director.
24. October 2025Updated draft papers propose a 1,500 crore rupee issue, with Gupta selling shares worth 225 crore rupees.
25. March 2026Announces OffBeat Studios, his first new company after boAt, on the eve of his birthday.
26. April 2026OffBeat raises 100 crore rupees of seed funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
27. August 2026boAt reports its second profitable year with a profit after tax of 84.5 crore rupees on revenue of 2,931 crore rupees.

Early life and family

Aman Gupta was born on 4 March 1982 in Delhi, in what his own telling and the profiles of him describe as a middle class family. His father, Neeraj Gupta, was in business, and his mother, Jyoti Kochar Gupta, ran the household. He grew up with a brother, Anmol Gupta, and a sister, Neha Gupta. ^[2]

The family's history is a trading one, and Gupta has said that he began working alongside his father at about 23 while he was still building a career in accounting and consulting. That early exposure is the reason he describes himself, in interviews, as someone who came to consumer brands through the balance sheet rather than through design. ^{[2] [3]}

Delhi shaped his first market as well. boAt's earliest customers were Indian students and young office goers buying earphones online, and Gupta has repeatedly said that the product decisions came out of what he saw his own generation wanting: audio that looked good, cost little and did not embarrass the buyer with a wire that broke in weeks. ^[5]

He has three names in the public record that matter to his biography. Aman Gupta is the name on the filings, Aman 2.0 is how he announced his own next act in 2026, and the third is the one written on his social accounts, amangupta0303, which he has used since his twenties. ^[8]

Education and the chartered accountancy years

Gupta went to Delhi Public School at R. K. Puram, one of the older Delhi schools, and then took a bachelor of commerce honours degree at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College under Delhi University. He qualified as a chartered accountant at about the age of twenty, and the profiles of him written in the years after Shark Tank made much of the fact that he was among the youngest in his batch to clear the examination. ^{[1] [3]}

The accountancy training is the part of his background he draws on most publicly. His public explanation of why boAt stayed profitable from its first year is a chartered accountant's explanation: the company earned money by selling products rather than by selling shares, spent on marketing only what the sales could carry, and never treated an investor's cheque as revenue. ^[5]

He then took an MBA in finance and strategy at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. Zee News, one of the outlets that has written the longest profiles of him, records an additional exchange term at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in the United States, which is also why the encyclopaedia entry on him files him among that university's alumni. ^{[1] [2]}

The Harvard connection that appears in his story is not a degree. In 2022 he posted that he had never studied at Harvard but that boAt and its Instagram playbook had ended up as a case study taught there, a line that was picked up by CNBC-TV18 and that he has repeated since. The claim he has always made about his education is the opposite of prestigious: he has described his learning as coming from closing five failed companies before boAt worked. ^{[4] [2]}

Business career and companies

The first jobs were conventional. Gupta worked as an assistant manager with Citi and then as a senior management consultant with KPMG, both of which he has described as training in how large businesses read a market and how consultants explain one. Neither lasted as a career, and neither is the reason his name is on a consumer brand. ^{[2] [14]}

His first company of his own was Advanced Telemedia Private Limited, a telecom technology business he co-founded and then ran as chief executive. It is the least documented part of his working life, and the part he mentions the least, but it is the point at which he stopped being an employee. ^{[1] [2]}

Between Advanced Telemedia and boAt came the failures. In 2023 he told The Indian Express that he had shut down five companies before boAt, describing the pattern as one of learning marketing, distribution and hiring at his own expense, and telling audiences that a founder who has not closed something tends to be overconfident about the first idea that works. ^[1]

boAt began in November 2016 with Sameer Mehta as his co-founder. The two put in a small amount of their own money, reported in the Indian press as roughly three lakh rupees, and built the brand around online sales, aggressive pricing and a lifestyle image rather than a technical one. Gupta's job was the brand and the marketing, and he became the company's chief marketing officer, a title he held for most of the next decade. ^{[2] [14]}

He was also boAt's public face in a way that most chief marketing officers are not. From 2021 that face was on television every week through Shark Tank India, which put an entrepreneur who had been through five failed companies in front of an audience of first time founders, and made the boAt story itself a marketing asset. ^{[1] [15]}

boAt: the brand, the pricing and the manufacturing bet

boAt's first category was wired earphones, then wireless earphones, then speakers and, later, smartwatches and grooming devices. Gupta has explained the pricing logic in plain terms: a product built for a young buyer who has sixty or seventy rupees a day of discretionary spending has to be priced so that it can be bought on impulse, which is why a large part of the catalogue has always sat under a few thousand rupees. ^[5]

The scale of the bet became clear in the Forbes India profile of the two founders published in December 2021. Revenue had gone from about 31 crore rupees in the financial year 2017 to more than 1,000 crore rupees in the financial year 2021, which the magazine called the first direct to consumer brand in India to cross that mark while staying profitable. In earwear the brand had taken a market share of about 48 per cent, against 5.3 per cent for Samsung, and in wearables it was second with 23.1 per cent in the quarter to December 2021, according to International Data Corporation. ^[5]

Gupta's line from that period has become his most quoted one. Asked how a company should be built, he said a boat must not leak, meaning a business should not burn money it has not earned. He argued that founders who chased valuations rather than profit ended up explaining themselves to public markets, and that retail investors eventually see through a business model that does not work. ^[5]

Manufacturing moved to India alongside the sales pitch. By the end of 2022 the company said about a million units a month were being produced domestically through partnerships with electronics manufacturing services companies, including a joint venture with Dixon Technologies, a shift Gupta tied to the Make in India programme. When he later spoke at the Indo-French CEO Forum, he used the same numbers to argue that an Indian consumer brand could be both cheap and locally made. ^{[6] [1]}

The brand also became a marketing case study. Gupta's use of social media, cricket and music partnerships, and his decision to let the brand take partisan positions on youth culture, were all documented by CNBC-TV18 in an article on boAt's appearance as a Harvard Business School case study, which quoted his own line about never having studied there himself. ^[4]

The funding ladder and two attempts at an IPO

boAt's outside money came late and rarely. The first large cheque arrived in January 2021, when Warburg Pincus led a round of close to 100 million dollars in Imagine Marketing, the parent company. Qualcomm Ventures, the investment arm of Qualcomm, followed in April 2021, three months later. By September 2025 the company had raised more than 170 million dollars in total, with Warburg Pincus still the largest external shareholder and Fireside Ventures and Qualcomm holding significant stakes. ^{[5] [8]}

The first listing attempt came in January 2022, when the company filed draft papers for a 2,000 crore rupee offering, of which 900 crore rupees was to be fresh equity and 1,100 crore rupees an offer for sale. The issue never opened. In October 2022 the company raised 500 crore rupees instead from an affiliate of Warburg Pincus and from Malabar Investments, through preference shares, and withdrew the papers. Gupta explained the change in direction by saying the money would go into smartwatches and into local manufacturing rather than into an expensive listing. ^[6]

The second attempt was more cautious. Imagine Marketing used the confidential pre-filing route with the Securities and Exchange Board of India in April 2025, which allows a company to keep its draft papers private until a later stage, and it received the regulator's approval in the last days of August 2025. At that point the company was reported to be targeting a valuation of around 1.5 billion dollars, or roughly 13,000 crore rupees. ^{[7] [8]}

The updated draft papers filed in October 2025 cut the size of the issue to 1,500 crore rupees, of which 500 crore rupees was fresh and 1,000 crore rupees was an offer for sale by existing investors. The sellers were listed individually: Sameer Mehta for 75 crore rupees, Aman Gupta for 225 crore rupees, South Lake Investment for 500 crore rupees, Fireside Ventures Investment Fund-I for 150 crore rupees and Qualcomm Ventures for 50 crore rupees. ^[7]

The listing has not happened. CNBC-TV18 reported that the issue had been deferred again even with the regulator's clearance in hand, and the company's own statements through 2026 continued to talk about readiness rather than a date. For Gupta the practical effect of that deferral is that a stake which the draft papers valued at hundreds of crores remains a stake in an unlisted company. ^[1]

Running boAt: the losses, the turnaround and the numbers

The years in which the first listing was postponed were also the years in which boAt stopped making money. The company reported a net loss of about 129.5 crore rupees in the financial year 2023 and another loss of about 79.7 crore rupees in the financial year 2024, after a decade of growth, mainly because of the smartwatch expansion, discounting and an inventory build in a market that filled up with competitors. ^[7]

The recovery arrived in the financial year 2025, when the company returned to profit with a net profit of about 61.1 crore rupees, on revenue of 3,098 crore rupees, down slightly from 3,122 crore rupees the year before. Gupta was no longer running the day to day business by then, but the numbers are the ones his tenure as a founder is judged on. ^{[8] [11]}

The financial year 2026 was better on profit and softer on revenue. Profit after tax rose 38 per cent to 84.5 crore rupees from 61.1 crore rupees, profit before tax rose 53 per cent to 114.3 crore rupees, and revenue from operations came in at 2,931 crore rupees. Return on capital employed improved from 11.5 per cent to 15.2 per cent. ^{[11] [12]}

The balance sheet details published with those numbers read like a company deliberately preparing itself for a listing. The company ended the year with about 397 crore rupees of cash and no bank debt, inventory fell about 10 per cent to 294 crore rupees, finance costs dropped from 27.9 crore rupees to 7.9 crore rupees and warranty expenses fell from 82.6 crore rupees to 57.5 crore rupees. The wearables business, which had lost about 54 crore rupees the year before, made a profit of about 7 crore rupees. ^{[12] [13]}

Gaurav Nayyar, the chief executive who replaced the founders in September 2025, described the year as one of strengthening the foundations of the business while navigating a challenging external environment, and said the focus was shifting from turnaround to growth, with international markets and newer categories such as projectors, grooming and charging solutions as the next engines. International revenue more than doubled during the year, and the company has since pushed into smaller neighbouring markets to look for growth. ^{[12] [13]}

The leadership change and OffBeat Studios

In September 2025, as the listing papers moved through the regulator, Imagine Marketing announced that Gaurav Nayyar, who had been chief operating officer, would become chief executive. Sameer Mehta moved to the role of executive director and Gupta became a non-executive director. The company described the changes as a planned succession for a company heading towards public markets, and the newswire reports at the time noted that both founders would stay on the board. ^[8]

Gupta's own explanation, given on television after a remark on Shark Tank, was that he had stepped back because the next phase of the company needed a different kind of management, and that he wanted to build something again rather than supervise. He kept the boAt brand story alive in his public appearances, but the operational decisions were no longer his. ^{[1] [8]}

On 3 March 2026, the day before his birthday, he announced his next company. The post on X read that with every birthday some grow older but he grew bolder, that he was still hungry, still impatient and still driven, and that his new venture was called OffBeat Studios, styled in the branding as OFF/BEAT. He did not say what the company would do, what it would sell, who would run it or when it would launch. ^[8]

The seed round came a month later, in April 2026. OffBeat Studios raised 100 crore rupees in a round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, announced by Gupta on his wedding anniversary with a line comparing the choice of an investor to the choice of a life partner. Anant Vidur Puri, a partner at Bessemer, said the firm was backing a founder who had seen how a new India would think about aspiration, identity and quality, and was now applying that instinct to a market being reshaped by artificial intelligence. The business model was still undisclosed at the time of the announcement. ^{[9] [10]}

Shark Tank India and the investing portfolio

Gupta joined Shark Tank India when the Indian edition of the format began in December 2021, and he has appeared in every season since. The show turned a brand builder into a television personality, and the audience it gave him is the reason his name is recognised by people who have never bought a pair of earphones. ^{[1] [15]}

By the show's own accounting he is its most active investor. A study by Redseer Strategy Consultants published in July 2023, covering the first two seasons, put the total invested on the programme at more than 100 crore rupees, with Gupta leading on 70 deals worth about 24.6 crore rupees, ahead of Peyush Bansal with 67 deals worth about 21.5 crore rupees and Namita Thapar with 62 deals worth about 20.6 crore rupees. ^[2]

His stated approach is deliberately unquantified. In 2026 he wrote that he had never been an Excel sheet investor and that he invests in founders rather than formulas, and he has cited his investment in the brand Let's Try as the most successful return he has had from the show. That framing is also the main criticism made of him on the programme, where founders have complained that the terms and the promised help do not always arrive as described in the pitch. ^[8]

Outside television he is a long standing angel investor with holdings in more than a hundred private companies, a portfolio broad enough that it includes consumer brands, software and financial services. The disclosure of that portfolio has never been systematic, which is why the counts printed in the press differ: some articles say a hundred companies, others say two hundred and fifty, and none of the figures is a filed statement. ^{[1] [2]}

Net worth and wealth

Gupta's personal wealth is estimated rather than disclosed, because the company he built is still private and no authoritative wealth list has tracked him. In February 2024 the Times of India put his net worth at about 720 crore rupees, and the Economic Times repeated the same figure in its report on the National Creators Award the following month. Zee News, writing in July 2023, had used a slightly lower estimate of about 700 crore rupees. ^{[3] [15] [2]}

The largest single component of that wealth is his shareholding in Imagine Marketing. The offer for sale in the October 2025 draft papers listed him as a seller of shares worth 225 crore rupees, which was the second largest individual sale after the 500 crore rupees attributed to South Lake Investment and ahead of his co-founder Sameer Mehta's 75 crore rupees. That figure is the value the company itself put on the shares he intended to sell, not a valuation of his whole holding. ^[7]

The valuation of the company has moved a great deal. boAt was reported to be targeting about 1.5 billion dollars, or roughly 13,000 crore rupees, when it filed confidentially in April 2025, and an Indian press report in the same period claimed that the correct price of the brand was close to 9,800 crore rupees. The 2022 round that valued the business after its first abandoned listing, and the 2023 round of about 60 million dollars led by Warburg Pincus and Malabar, both predate that. ^{[8] [3]}

What can be said with certainty is the size of the asset rather than the size of the man's bank account. boAt finished the financial year 2026 with about 397 crore rupees of cash on its own books and no bank debt, and it earned 84.5 crore rupees of profit after tax. Its chief executive has talked about the next phase of the company as boAt 2.0 rather than about the value of the founders' stakes. ^{[12] [13]}

Wife, children and family

Gupta married Priya Dagar in 2008. The story he tells about it has become one of the best known parts of his public biography: his father, seeing him unhappy after a relationship had gone wrong, told him to go after the woman he wanted, and he spent a night moving from one railway station to another looking for the train she was on, found her name on the passenger chart and boarded it without a ticket. He described the episode in a podcast in terms of Hindi cinema and joked that his father had played the Anupam Kher role. ^{[3] [2]}

The couple have two daughters, named in the press as Adaa Gupta and Miraya Gupta, both of whom have appeared with their parents in the coverage of the show's press events and family celebrations. Gupta has said the two have been with the family since the early years of boAt and that he has been married for more than eighteen years. ^{[2] [3]}

Priya Dagar is not a public figure in her own right and there is very little reporting on her work or her own interests. She appears in the record almost entirely through the couple's joint public appearances, including the Cannes Film Festival in 2023 and the birthday parties Gupta has posted about. ^[3]

The immediate family is slightly larger than most profiles suggest. Gupta's brother, Anmol Gupta, and sister, Neha Gupta, are named in the Zee News profile of his early life, though neither works in the boAt business and neither is part of its management. ^[2]

Personal life, music and public appearances

Gupta is a music enthusiast first and a gadget salesman second, which is the reason he gives for having chosen audio as the category to build a company around. He plays the guitar, sings in public when the occasion allows, and has performed on stage at industry events, including a rendition of the song Yeh Dil Deewana that the trade press reported in 2024. ^[1]

His television life extends past the pitch room. In 2022 he appeared with the other judges as a VIP contestant on Kaun Banega Crorepati, and he has been a guest on The Kapil Sharma Show with the same group in more than one year. He was also part of the ensemble that produced the most quoted moments of the show's press cycle, including the episode in which he tore up a cheque after a difficult pitch. ^{[1] [15]}

Public engagements abroad have grown alongside the brand. He has attended the Indo-French CEO Forum with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and in February 2025 he went for the second time, writing afterwards that the future was made in India and calling for joint participation between Indian and French startups in the Startup Mahakumbh and the VivaTech conference. In February 2024 he posted about attending a state dinner at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. ^[1]

The lifestyle reporting around him is extensive and mostly sourced from his own posts. The Times of India has listed high end cars, luxury clothing and the couple's appearances at Cannes and in Paris, and has noted his own claim of having travelled through five Indian states in twenty four hours. None of that is financial disclosure, and none of it is unusual for the Indian founder celebrity circuit, but it is part of why he is a recognisable figure far beyond the audio market. ^[3]

One public moment that he did not plan became a marketing story. In 2023 he spotted the British prime minister Rishi Sunak wearing a pair of boAt headphones in a photograph and wrote about it on social media, which several outlets reported as an accidental endorsement of an Indian brand by a sitting head of government. ^[14]

House and property

No house purchase by Gupta has been reported by a licensed publisher, and this entry does not invent one. He is described in the reporting of his early career as a Delhi man, and his public life has moved between Delhi and Mumbai since Shark Tank India began, but neither city has an address attributed to him in a checkable source.

What the press has documented is his spending on movable assets. The Times of India's profile of him notes high end cars and clothing, and the same article is the source of the widely repeated 720 crore rupee net worth estimate. Anything more specific about his property, such as a flat in a particular building, has not been published by any of the sources this page is allowed to cite, and a page that claimed one would be guessing. ^[3]

The same restraint applies to his shareholding, which is real but not fully disclosed. Companies that are still private do not publish the personal balance sheets of their founders, and the only figure the company itself has attached to him is the 225 crore rupees of shares he offered to sell in the offer for sale. ^[7]

Awards and recognition

The recognition has come in three waves. The first, between 2019 and 2022, was industry recognition for building a consumer brand: the Businessworld Young Entrepreneur award in 2019, a place in the Entrepreneur India Tech 25 class the same year, the Super 30 CMO award and the Entrepreneur of the Year title in 2020, a place in Businessworld's 40 Under 40 achievers list in 2020, the Economic Times 40 Under 40 list in 2021 and the Retailer India Entrepreneur of the Year in 2022. ^[1]

The second wave was television recognition, and it came with a different kind of award altogether. The Lokmat Most Stylish Entrepreneur of the Year in 2021 was given to him on the strength of his public persona rather than his balance sheet, and the Times of India's coverage of his lifestyle sits in the same category. ^[1]

The third and most formal wave arrived in March 2024, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented him the National Creators Award in the celebrity creator category at the first edition of the awards, which drew more than 1.5 lakh nominations across twenty categories. The Economic Times and Hindustan Times both covered the award, and Gupta's acceptance remarks were about creators rather than about earphones. ^{[15] [16]}

The brand's own recognitions track the same years: boAt was named among the world's top five wearable brands in 2020 and 2021, and by the time of the financial year 2021 had crossed 1,000 crore rupees of revenue while remaining profitable. Gupta has also led the jury of the Businessworld Disrupt 40 Under 40 list. ^{[1] [5]}

Philanthropy and public positions

There is no foundation, no endowment and no documented donation programme attached to Gupta in the sources this page can cite. The philanthropy that appears in his profile is indirect: the companies he backs on television and off it, the manufacturing argument he makes about jobs in India, and the public positions he takes on Indian founders building for Indian consumers. ^{[2] [15]}

The clearest public interest position he holds is manufacturing. As the company moved about a million units a month of production into India with partners including Dixon Technologies, he framed it explicitly as a Make in India argument, and he repeated it at the Indo-French CEO Forum, where he said boAt manufactured a significant portion of its products domestically and called for closer collaboration between Indian and French startups. ^{[6] [1]}

The other is the show itself. Gupta has argued repeatedly that Shark Tank India changed how Indian households think about business, saying in 2023 that audiences were watching business shows more than daily soaps, and he has treated the visibility of the founders who appear on the programme as a public good. Whether that claim is right is a matter for the ratings; what is documented is that he made it. ^[1]

Controversies and criticism

The most repeated criticism of Gupta concerns the timing of his exit from the chief marketing role. The account given on his Wikipedia page is that he stepped down as chief marketing officer 29 days before the company filed its IPO prospectus, which critics of the listing have used to argue that the man who built the brand's public face left just as the financial details were about to be scrutinised. The company's own account is that the change was part of a planned succession, announced in September 2025, with the chief operating officer taking over and both founders staying on the board. Both versions exist on the record, and the ordering of the two events is not in dispute: the leadership change came first, the papers came after. ^{[1] [8]}

The second thread is the listing itself. boAt filed for a 2,000 crore rupee offering in January 2022, withdrew it ten months later, refiled confidentially in 2025, won the regulator's approval and then deferred the issue again. Public market investors have been asked to price the company three times in four years without ever being able to buy it, and Gupta was the most visible promoter of all three attempts. ^{[6] [7]}

The losses on his watch are the third. The financial years 2023 and 2024 together cost the company more than 200 crore rupees, after years of telling the market that boAt was the profitable exception among Indian consumer startups. The turn back to profit in the financial year 2025 and the stronger result in 2026 came after the founders handed over day to day management, which is an awkward detail for the version of the story in which the founders' discipline was the reason for the profitability. ^{[7] [12]}

The fourth criticism is about the investment claims of the show, and it is aimed at the format as much as at him. Reported figures for the money committed on Shark Tank India are commitments made on camera, not money that necessarily arrives in the companies' bank accounts on the announced terms, and founders who have appeared on the programme have said publicly that the help they were promised did not always materialise. Gupta's own framing, that he invests in founders and not formulas, is a defence of judgement rather than of paperwork. ^{[2] [8]}

There is also a smaller, specific dispute. Gupta and Anupam Mittal, his fellow judge, have publicly disagreed on the programme about the value of user data and about each other's claims, and one exchange between them was reported by Mint under the headline that Gupta had mocked Mittal's user database claim. It is entertainment as much as business, but it is the kind of exchange that shapes how the show's investors are seen: as personalities first and financiers second. ^[9]

The questions people search about Aman Gupta

• Who is Aman Gupta? An Indian entrepreneur born in Delhi in 1982, the co-founder of the audio and wearables brand boAt and a judge on Shark Tank India.
• How old is Aman Gupta? He was born on 4 March 1982, which makes him 44 years old in 2026.
• What is Aman Gupta's net worth? Press estimates put it at around 720 crore rupees in February 2024, a figure the company has never confirmed; the largest documented piece of it is the 225 crore rupees of boAt shares he offered to sell in the 2025 draft papers.
• What is Aman Gupta's qualification? A BCom honours degree from Shaheed Bhagat Singh College under Delhi University, a chartered accountancy qualification and an MBA in finance and strategy from the Indian School of Business.
• Who is Aman Gupta's wife? Priya Dagar, married in 2008.
• How many children does Aman Gupta have? Two daughters, Adaa and Miraya.
• Who are Aman Gupta's parents? Neeraj Gupta and Jyoti Kochar Gupta, and he has a brother, Anmol, and a sister, Neha.
• Which company does Aman Gupta own? He co-founded boAt with Sameer Mehta in 2016. The brand is owned by Imagine Marketing Limited, where he is now a non-executive director, and he founded OffBeat Studios in 2026.
• Is Aman Gupta still the CMO of boAt? No. He moved to a non-executive director role in September 2025, when Gaurav Nayyar became chief executive.
• How much did boAt earn in the last financial year? Revenue from operations was 2,931 crore rupees and profit after tax was 84.5 crore rupees in the financial year 2026.
• Has boAt been listed on the stock exchange? No. It filed draft papers in January 2022, withdrew them, refiled confidentially in April 2025, received SEBI approval and has deferred the issue.
• How many startups has Aman Gupta invested in? Publicly reported counts range from more than a hundred to about 250, and the most active shark figure published for the show is 70 deals in its first two seasons.
• What is OffBeat Studios? His new company, announced in March 2026 and funded with 100 crore rupees of seed money led by Bessemer Venture Partners in April 2026; its business is still undisclosed.

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