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Shark Tank India is an Indian Hindi-language business reality television series that airs on Sony Entertainment Television. The show is the Indian franchise of the American show Shark Tank. It shows entrepreneurs making business presentations to a panel of investors or sharks, who decide whether to invest in their company. The first season of Shark Tank India premiered on 20 December 2021 and concluded on 4 February 2022.

Concept
The show features a panel of potential investors, termed as "Sharks", who listen to entrepreneurs pitch ideas for a business or product they wish to develop. These self-made multi-millionaires judge the business concepts and products pitched and then decide whether to invest their own money to help market and mentor each contestant. The host of this show is Rannvijay Singha.

The show received 62,000 aspirants from India, out of which 198 businesses were selected to pitch their ideas to the “sharks”. Out of 198 investment pitches at the reality TV show, 67 businesses got deals this season.

Sharks
Any five of the following seven sharks are present in each episode except episodes 34-35.

In popular culture
Shark Peyush Bansal pitched his company Lenskart on Shark Tank India to his co-sharks in the context of 2010.

Gateway to the shark tank
A special episode of Shark Tank India named Gateway to the Shark Tank streams from 11 February 2022 on SonyLIV.