Ankit Agarwal (Phool Founder)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Ankit Agarwal

• Ankit Agarwal belongs to a Marwari family in Uttar Pradesh.

• Ankit Agarwal did an internship at the company Symantec from October 2010 to April 2011.

• In 2011, he worked as a Research Engineer at the company Uniken for four months.

• After leaving the company Uniken, he joined as an Automation Engineer at Symantec in 2011 and left the company in 2014.

• After leaving the company Symantec, he joined Oikos Foundation, Switzerland, in April 2014 as an Executive Board Member and worked until October 2017.

• Ankit and his childhood friend Karan Rastogi founded the company Help Us Green in May 2015 with a capital of Rs. 80,000.

  

• In 2017, Ankit Agarwal and Prateek Kumar started the company Flowering Cycle Pvt. Ltd in Kanpur, India, which was later renamed as Phool.

  

• The company Phool aims to recycle the flowers offered to gods in temples and convert them into charcoal-free incense sticks, essential oils, soaps, and vermicompost.

• Phool also sells a leather-type material made from waste flowers which can be used as an alternative to leather. The material is called Fleather.

  

• Phool gave jobs to underprivileged women across the country.

  

• In 2020, Phool received a total of Rs. 3.38 crore fund from various companies such as Social Alpha, Draper Richards Kaplan (DRK) Foundation, and IIT Kanpur.

• Various sources claim that Phool has planned to open its company in Germany and Switzerland to increase the profit rates.

• Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt holds a 5% stake as an investor at Phool.

  

• Ankit drinks alcohol occasionally.