Updated: August 2025 · Verified by TheCelebBio editorial team
Ambareesh Vedantam Murty was a prominent Indian businessman. He was best known for starting the company called Pepperfry which sold furniture and things for homes on the internet. He started this company with another person named Ashish Shah in 2012.
Before starting Pepperfry, Murty served at eBay, where he managed things for different countries like India, the Philippines, and Malaysia. He was known for working with Pepperfry, eBay, Cadbury, Internet, and the Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). Ambareesh Vedantam Murty passed away on 7 August 2023.

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He was born in 1971. He was 51 years at the time of death. Ambareesh Vedantam Murty’s LinkedIn account states that Murthy went to Delhi College of Engineering from 1990 to 1994 and got a B.E. degree. Then, he went to the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta from 1994 to 1996 and got an MBA degree.
He started doing business things when he was in college. He used to teach Physics and Math to students who were in Class XI and XII.
Ambareesh Murthy’s father’s name is Vedantam Sriram Murty.


Ambareesh Murty has a sister named Shambhavi.

Ambareesh Murty got married in 2004. The couple has a son.

Ambareesh Murty started a small business named Tutors’ Bureau after he completed his education. This business helped good tutors connect with students from schools. He did this for two years in the early 1990s.
Ambareesh Murty started working in companies in 1996. He began at Cadbury India as a trainee. For five years, he worked in the marketing part of the company and became a brand manager.
He worked in different places like Delhi, Rajasthan, and Mumbai until 2001. After that, he worked in different areas and had important roles like being in charge of marketing at ICICI Prudential AMC and leading the brand at Levi Strauss India.
In 2003, Ambareesh Murty left his job at Levi Strauss in Bengaluru and started a new business called Origin Resource. This business taught people about managing money and assets.
In 2005, Ambareesh Murty went back to working for a company and joined Britannia as someone who takes care of marketing. After seven months, he left Britannia and started working at eBay India. In just two years, he became in charge of eBay in India, the Philippines, and Malaysia.
While working at eBay, Ambareesh Murty also had an important role in a group called IAMAI. This group looked after things related to the Internet and mobile technology in India.
When Ambareesh Murty was at eBay, he met Ashish Shah, who later became his partner in starting Pepperfry, a company that sells things online for homes.
Murty and Ashish Shah started Pepperfry together in 2012 in Mumbai. The main office of Pepperfry is also in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Pepperfry is worth a lot of money, around $500 million.
Many times, different people and companies gave them money to help their business, and the total amount they received from these investors is about $244 million.
Some of the investors are companies like Goldman Sachs and Bertelsmann India Investments.

On 7 August 2023, he died in Leh, Ladakh, India, after suffering a heart attack.

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