Juggernaut Books
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 | |
| Founded | September 2015 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Chiki Sarkar |
| Country of origin | India |
| Headquarters location | New Delhi, India |
| Distribution | Online and physical |
| Publication types | Online publishing, short stories, autobiographies, ebooks |
| Official website | www |
Juggernaut Books is a publisher headquartered in New Delhi, India.[1][2] Starting with digital books distributed via its website and mobile app, it turned to publishing physical books later
Juggernaut was founded by Chiki Sarkar in September 2015. Before co-founding Juggernaut, Sarkar was a publisher of Penguin India and founder-publisher of Random House India. Raghunath was the CEO of Network18 Digital, senior VP-Growth, at Zomato and also founded Firstpost.[3]
Juggernaut raised Rs 15 crores in its initial round of seed funding from Fabindia's chairman William Bissell; former CEO and co-founder of Infosys, Nandan Nilekani and MD of Boston Consulting Group, Neeraj Aggarwal.[4]
In April 2016, Juggernaut launched India's first mobile-publishing application.[1][5] Priya Ramani was appointed as the editor-at-large for its digital properties in the same year.[6] In February 2017, Raghunath resigned from the post of CEO and decided to continue as a shareholder.[7] Simran Khara is the current CEO of the publishing house.[8]
In December 2017, Bharti Airtel acquired a strategic stake in the house.[9] In March 2019, American publishing house HarperCollins joined in a partnership with Juggernaut Books, becoming their sales, distribution partner.[10]