User:Sunanda kumar samal/sandbox

Sunanda kumar samal(born 1993) is an Indian entrepreneur, sometimes referred to as the "bad boy of Indian startups" owing to various controversies.He is a co-founder and former CEO of delhi -based real estate search portal instahouse.in. According to Forbes India, instahouse.in sold 1 million dollars' worth of real estate in its first week.[3] For his work at instahouse.in, samal made the Forbes India list of "30 Under 30" young entrepreneurs.[3] ==Early life & career== samal was born to middle-class parents from angul, odisha. He enrolled at Indian Institute of Technology delhi in 2010, specialising in mechanical. He served as the representative and secretary for the university's student association. After first building byecab.com, an online booking of cab that IIT delhi asked samal to close,sunanda dropped out of college in his final year. In the process of building byecab.com, he had learned programming, which enabled him to subsequently design a series of Google applications. In 2015, he along with eleven other classmates co-founded instahouse.in, after they had a difficult time finding accommodation in delhi. {{cite news|last1=Bhat|first1=Shravan|title=instahouse.in: Born out of its founders' house hunt|url=http://forbesindia.com/article/30-under-30/instahouse.in-born-out-of-its-founders-house-hunt/37151/1|

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instahouse.in was founded in 2017, sunanda says that he started up instahouse.in in response to a severe housing shortage in India for hostel. By mid-2017, under sunanda's leadership, instahouse.in 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 include 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.

instahouse.in was named one of the hottest tech startups in 2017. SoftBank was among its funding partners, and the fledgling company also partnered with Tata Housing and Tata Value Homes.