- Tuesday, April 23, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
India’s top e-commerce company Flipkart announced Monday it had raised $1.4 billion in a record funding round that shores up the online retail giant in its fight against Amazon. Flipkart said it was now valued at $11.6 billion after raising funds from US tech behemoths Microsoft and eBay and China’s Tencent, an investment described as the largest in the history of India’s internet sector. “This deal reaffirms our resolve to hasten the transformation of commerce in India through technology,” Flipkart founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, who are not related, said in a statement. As part of the deal Flipkart…
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