Purplle is an Indian beauty and personal care e-commerce marketplace headquartered in Mumbai, founded in 2012 by Manish Taneja, Rahul Dash, Suyash Katyayani and Anurag Neema. The platform sells skincare, makeup, haircare, fragrance, bath and body, grooming, mom and baby and wellness products across India, carrying a catalogue of 60,000+ products from 1,000+ brands alongside its own homegrown labels — Good Vibes, DERMDOC, Alps Goodness, NY Bae, FACES CANADA, Carmesi, Salm Skin and Juicy Chemistry. Purplle became an Indian unicorn in 2022 and is backed by ADIA, Kedaara, Premji Invest, Peak XV Partners, Goldman Sachs, Verlinvest, JSW Ventures and Blume Ventures. It operates a consumer website and mobile app plus 100+ offline stores, and publishes editorial guidance through Purplle Magazine. Purplle is a direct-to-consumer retailer: as of this profile it publishes no public developer program, API documentation, or machine-readable API contract. It does publish an llms.txt at its web root describing its catalogue for AI agents.
Purplle is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Beauty, Cosmetics, E-Commerce, and Retail.
Purplle’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 6 more developer resources.
aid: purplle
name: Purplle
description: 'Purplle is an Indian beauty and personal care e-commerce marketplace headquartered in Mumbai, founded in 2012
by Manish Taneja, Rahul Dash, Suyash Katyayani and Anurag Neema. The platform sells skincare, makeup, haircare, fragrance,
bath and body, grooming, mom and baby and wellness products across India, carrying a catalogue of 60,000+ products from
1,000+ brands alongside its own homegrown labels — Good Vibes, DERMDOC, Alps Goodness, NY Bae, FACES CANADA, Carmesi, Salm
Skin and Juicy Chemistry. Purplle became an Indian unicorn in 2022 and is backed by ADIA, Kedaara, Premji Invest, Peak XV
Partners, Goldman Sachs, Verlinvest, JSW Ventures and Blume Ventures. It operates a consumer website and mobile app plus
100+ offline stores, and publishes editorial guidance through Purplle Magazine. Purplle is a direct-to-consumer retailer:
as of this profile it publishes no public developer program, API documentation, or machine-readable API contract. It does
publish an llms.txt at its web root describing its catalogue for AI agents.'
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: true
callable_host: false
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: medium
source:
- pricing
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
image: https://media6.ppl-media.com/mediafiles/ecomm/promo/1728010486_purplle-logo.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/purplle/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-08-26'
tags:
- Company
- Beauty
- Cosmetics
- E-Commerce
- Retail
- Marketplace
- Personal Care
- Consumer
- India
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.purplle.com/
- type: About
url: https://www.purplle.com/pr/about-us
- type: Blog
url: https://www.purplle.com/magazine
- type: Support
url: https://www.purplle.com/contactus
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.purplle.com/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.purplle.com/terms-of-use
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/purplle-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/purplle-domain-security.yml
x-pointer-verification: 'Every www.purplle.com pointer above is taken verbatim from Purplle''s own published https://www.purplle.com/llms.txt,
which is the provider asserting these URLs. None could be independently content-verified: the entire site is Angular client-rendered
behind Radware Bot Manager. Unrecognised paths return a non-standard HTTP 247 JavaScript challenge (577 bytes), and the
/pr/ route is a CATCH-ALL that answers HTTP 200 with a ~151KB shell and an EMPTY <link rel="canonical"> for any path, including
the control /pr/not-a-real-page-xyz-9931. A 200 from this host is therefore not evidence a page exists, and no pointer here
was credited on the basis of one.'
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-26'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 6
pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
state: none
reason: no-developer-program
detail: Purplle is a direct-to-consumer beauty marketplace whose only machine-readable publication is a consumer-catalogue
llms.txt; api.purplle.com answers HTTP 502 on every path, developer.purplle.com and docs.purplle.com do not resolve, and
no OpenAPI, GraphQL, MCP or agent-card probe returned a contract on any host.
evidence:
- url: https://www.purplle.com/llms.txt
status: 200
- url: https://api.purplle.com/openapi.json
status: 502
- url: https://www.purplle.com/openapi.json
status: 247
- url: https://www.purplle.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
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- url: https://developer.purplle.com/openapi.json
status: 0
checked: '2026-08-26'