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PhonePe is an Indian digital payments and financial services company headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. [5] [6] It was founded in December 2015, [7] [2] by Sameer Nigam, Rahul Chari and Burzin Engineer. [8]
Flipkart was founded in October 2007 in Bangalore [11] by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, alumni of the IIT Delhi and former Amazon employees. [12] [13] [14] The company was started from a two-bedroom apartment in Koramangala, Bengaluru. The initial investment was provided by their families, which was INR 2 Lakh from each family.
Binny Bansal (born 1982/1983) is an Indian billionaire [2] [3] Internet entrepreneur. [3] As of February 2024, his net worth was estimated at US$1.4 billion. [1] In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart.
In 2018, Bansal exited Flipkart following the Walmart deal. [6] In 2007, Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal (not related) founded Flipkart whose valuation in 2018 was $20.8 billion. [7] In 2018, Bansal held a 5.5 per cent stake in Flipkart, which he sold to Walmart and his net worth then was a little over $1 billion. [7]
Flipkart introduced Shopsy in July 2021 [3] [4] as a mobile app that allowed people in India to launch their own online reseller business. [5] [6] [7] By August 2021, the app had adopted a zero-commission marketplace model. [8] [9] Later, Shopsy shifted its focus to become a B2C company. [10]
Myntra continues to operate as a standalone brand under Flipkart's ownership, focusing primarily on "fashion-conscious" consumers. [14] In 2014, Myntra's portfolio included about 1,50,000 products of over 1,000 brands, with a distribution area of around 9,000 pincodes in India. [15]
India has an Internet user base of about 690.0 million as of November 2023, about 40% of the population. [1] Despite being the second-largest user base in world, only behind China (1.079 billion, 48% of population), the penetration of e-commerce is low compared to markets like the United States (266 million, 84%), or France (54M, 81%), but is growing, adding around 6 million new entrants every ...
The list of richest Indians by net worth based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled and published by Forbes magazine. As of April 2023, India has 167 billionaires, which put the country third in the world, after the United States and China . [ 1 ]