Company overview
- Sector
- Technology, Software & IT Services
- Sub-sector
- Information Technology & Services
- Mandate (derived)
- Customer Support & Ops
- Parent headquarters
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Parent revenue (USD)
- $1,200,000,000
- Parent headcount
- 5,399
- India headcount
- Not disclosed
GCC locations
- Bengaluru
- Hyderabad
Department mix
Global department counts, used as a proxy for the India mandate. These are not India team counts.
Technology stack
- Akamai
- Amazon AWS
- CampaignMonitor
- Gmail
- Google Apps
- Google Play
- Google Tag Manager
- Mailchimp Mandrill
- Mobile Friendly
- Route 53
- SAP
- SOASTA
- Sendgrid
- Sequence Monitor SPF
- Slack
Public leadership
Aashutosh Taparia
Head of Logistics (LMD & Transportation)
Public leadership listed in the dataset; the role is not necessarily the India GCC head.
Research overview
BigBasket (legal entity: Innovative Retail Concepts Pvt. Ltd. / Supermarket Grocery Supplies Pvt. Ltd.) is majority-owned by Tata Digital Pvt. Ltd., part of Tata Group. Tata Digital acquired a 64% stake in May 2021 at a valuation of approximately $1.85 billion, bringing BigBasket into Tata's consumer digital ecosystem (alongside Tata Neu). BigBasket operates as an India-headquartered operating company under Tata ownership, not as a foreign-parented captive GCC.
- India launch
- 2011
- Maturity
- Multi-Function / Full-Stack GCC (Corporate HQ Operations)
BigBasket is not a captive GCC of a foreign parent; it is an India-founded and India-headquartered e-commerce grocery operating company majority-owned by Tata Digital since 2021. All corporate functions - technology, supply chain/logistics, category management, marketing, finance, executive leadership - are based in India.
Location rationale
BigBasket is headquartered in Bengaluru, India's leading technology and startup hub, which provided access to engineering talent and an established e-commerce/logistics ecosystem when the company was founded in 2011. As an India-headquartered operating company (now Tata Digital-owned), its city footprint reflects operational/logistics needs across India rather than a GCC site-selection rationale.
Timeline
- 2011
BigBasket founded in Bengaluru by Hari Menon, V.S. Sudhakar, Vipul Parekh, Abhinay Choudhari and V.S. Ramesh
- 2011
Raised approximately $10 million in seed funding from Ascent Capital
- 2018
Raised $300 million in a funding round led by Alibaba Group, valuing the company at roughly $950 million
- 2019-05
Raised $150 million from Mirae Asset-Naver Growth Fund, CDC Group and Alibaba, achieving unicorn status
- 2021-05
Tata Digital acquired a 64% majority stake in BigBasket at a valuation of approximately $1.85 billion
- 2023-01
Raised $200 million at a valuation of $3.2 billion
- 2025-06
Piloted 10-minute food delivery in partnership with Starbucks and Qmin in Bengaluru, extending its BB Now quick-commerce format
Leadership context
Vipul Parekh is listed as CEO of BigBasket. He is one of the company's original co-founders (2011), alongside Hari Menon, V.S. Sudhakar, Abhinay Choudhari and V.S. Ramesh. Detailed career background, exact date of CEO appointment, and reporting structure to Tata Digital were not independently verified.
News and developments
BigBasket pilots 10-minute food delivery with Starbucks, Qmin in Bengaluru
BigBasket extended its BB Now quick-commerce format to test ultra-fast (10-minute) food and beverage delivery in partnership with Starbucks and cloud-kitchen brand Qmin in Bengaluru.
2025-06 Wikipedia (BigBasket) ↗
Sources
Sources and research notes
Source: Indian GCC 2026 Master Compendium, Company Master and research records. Sector, mandate and public leadership are derived fields. Missing values are shown as not disclosed. Revenue and global headcount describe the parent company, not the India centre.