FOUNDER
[3] PORTRAIT
Sharad Shankar
Founder & CEO
IIT Kanpur '02
UC Berkeley
Times Internet
Punchh (acq.)
ABOUT · ANDOR
Built in India.
Trusted globally.
We're an AI-first technology company founded in December 2015. Fifty engineers building proprietary multimodal AI for 50 million users — and an enterprise practice growing on top of it.
OUR STORY
Ten years of building AI
that actually ships.
Founded in December 2015, we are an AI-first technology company redefining the future of digital content creation and enterprise AI.
We are building next-generation AI-powered systems for global users — across consumer products that reach tens of millions, and enterprise engagements with banks, retailers, manufacturers, governments, and creative platforms.
WHAT WE DO
Six capability lines.
AI image generation
AI video creation
Image understanding, classification, detection & tracking
Vernacular language design & complete graphic design stack
Digital marketing tools
Enterprise AI services & consultancy
IMPACT
Our scale, in numbers.
50M+
ANDROID DOWNLOADS
5M+
iPHONE DOWNLOADS
5M/mo
DESIGNS GENERATED
50+
ENGINEERS
FOUNDING TEAM
IIT Kanpur. IIT Roorkee.
IIM Lucknow. UC Berkeley.
Founding team trained at the institutions India and the world send their best engineers and operators to.
CO-FOUNDER
[3] PORTRAIT
Prashant Kumar
Chief Marketing Officer
IIM Lucknow
Growth · Brand
CO-FOUNDER
[3] PORTRAIT
Vineet Jain
Co-Founder
IIT Roorkee
Engineering
CO-FOUNDER
[3] PORTRAIT
Naveen Mishra
Co-Founder
IIT Roorkee
Product · Tech
TIMELINE
A decade of compounding.
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2015
AndOr founded
Andor Communications Pvt. Ltd. incorporated in New Delhi. Thesis: AI is only valuable when it ships.
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2017
First consumer product
LightX launches — generative imaging on phones, years before "GenAI" was a category.
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2019
CV stack hits production scale
PhotoCut crosses tens of millions of cutouts per month on proprietary segmentation models.
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2023
Vernacular AI & VLM investment
Indic OCR + NLU stack hardened. Vision-language models brought to production for editing and retrieval.
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2025
Enterprise AI practice
Fixed-fee enterprise services and consultancy practice formalized on top of the consumer-proven stack.
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2026
50M+ users · 50+ engineers
Where we are today — production AI at consumer scale, productized for the enterprise.
CAREERS
Build AI that
millions actually use.
We hire ML engineers, MLOps engineers, full-stack engineers, designers, and applied researchers. If you want academic discipline and consumer-scale stakes in the same job — talk to us.
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