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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 slowly grew in prominence and was receiving 100 orders per day by 2008. [16] Flipkart acquired WeRead in 2010 from Lulu.com that helped it build its foundational strength which was the digital retail of books. This space was otherwise only shared by very limited number of players at that time in the market, such as Landmark and ...
Mukesh Bansal is an Indian entrepreneur and author known for his contributions to digital commerce, wellness, and technology.A 1997 computer science graduate from IIT Kanpur, he began his career at Deloitte before moving to Silicon Valley in 1999, where he worked at Nextag, Centrata, and newScale, gaining expertise in technology and strategy.
In 2017, he assumed the role of CEO of Flipkart Group and his previous position was handed to Kalyan Krishnamurthy. [17] In 2018, Walmart acquired a 77% stake in the Flipkart Group. After the acquisition, Binny Bansal assumed the role of chairman and continued as Group CEO. [18] His 5.5% stake in Flipkart was valued at $1 billion after the ...
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]
In August 2023, it was announced Navi Group had sold Chaitanya Microfinance to the Mumbai-headquartered microfinance company, Svatantra Microfin for $178.5 million.[30] On 12 March 2022 Navi filed a draft for an INR 3350 crore IPO.
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 ...