BharatMatrimony
Indian matchmaking service
BharatMatrimony is an online matrimonial service and a part of Matrimony.com. It was founded in 2000 by Murugavel Janakiraman, who later met his wife through his own matrimonial site. The company has 130 offices in India, with offices in Dubai, Sri Lanka, United States and Malaysia to cater to customers beyond India.
History
Murugavel Janakiraman started the BharatMatrimony website in 2000 while working as a software consultant for Lucent Technologies in Edison, N.J. In the late 1990s he set up a Tamil community web portal, which included matrimonial ads. He started BharatMatrimony after noticing the matrimonial ads generated most of his web traffic. He returned to India in 2004.
The company introduced features on their website like Matchboard, SoulMate Search, AstroMatch, and Express Interest to help customers make the right matches.
In 2006, the website earned into the Limca Book of World Records for having facilitated the highest number of documented marriages online in India, a number that has since reached one million marriages.
In 2009, BharatMatrimony launched more than 200 community portals, aimed at specific language groups and communities. The company launched more portals in 2010 aimed at Malaysian and Singaporean Tamils.
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