Built from under $1,000 to a publicly listed company
The name Kapruka comes from the Sinhala word for "wishing tree" — a mythical tree that grants whatever you desire. In 2002, Dulith Herath incorporated Lanka Dot Info (Pvt) Limited with a vision as audacious as the name: to bring e-commerce to Sri Lanka when most of the country was still offline.
Operating remotely from the United States with just a handful of orders per week, the earliest version of Kapruka was a scrappy experiment in possibility. By 2005, the company was renamed Kapruka Dot Com, and the seed of Sri Lanka's digital commerce revolution had firmly taken root.
Two decades later, that seed has grown into a publicly listed conglomerate — proof that bold ideas, relentless execution, and a deep belief in Sri Lanka's potential can reshape an entire industry.
