Timeline: Flipkart’s journey from a bookseller platform to India’s largest e-commerce company

• Flipkart founded - 15th September
• Website launched - 15th October
• First book sold - John Wood ‘Leaving Microsoft to Change the World’
• 2 people team, 3 servers, 1 category (books) and 20 shipments

• 1st Flipkart office - #447, Koramangala - 34
• Launched 24x7 Customer Service
• 8 member team, 3 servers, 1 category and 3400 shipments

• 1st round of funding - $1 Million from Accel Partners - September
• Opened offices at Delhi & Mumbai
• 150 member team, 3 servers, 1 category and 20,000 shipments
• First book opened for pre-orders - Dan Brown ‘The Lost Symbol’

• Launched own logistics arm - eKart
• Launched 30 day return policy
• Acquired WeRead
• Launched COD
• Categories launched: Music, Movies, Games, Electronics and Mobiles

• New categories added: Cameras, Computers, Laptops, Flyte, Large, Health, Personal Care, Stationery
• Acquired Chakpak and Mime360
• Launched 30-day replacement
• Delivering to over 600 cities

• Launched mobile app
• Acquired Letsbuy
• Launched Fashion, Perfumes, Watches, Menswear, Toys, Posters, Baby care

• Started Next Day Delivery
• Received funding of $360 Million
• Sold 1 lakh books in a single day
• Launched Women’s Lifestyle
• Made news by hiring the single largest number (by any recruiter) from the IIT campuses - 118

• Hit a run rate of $1bn GMV – the first Indian internet company to do so!
• Acquired Myntra
• Bought majority stake in Jeeves and ngpay
• Launched Flipkart First and In-a-Day Guarantee
• Launched Scheduled Delivery
• Launched large appliances
• Began exclusive associations – starting with Moto and Xiaomi
• First ever Big Billion Day!
• Launched Same Day Delivery

• Launched Home Category, Maternity
• Acquired AdIQuity and AppIterate
• Acquires payment services firm FX Mart
• Acquires majority stake in Jeeves
• Launched Ad Platform and Strategic Brands Group
• Brand Refresh - New logo
• Launched Flipkart Lite
• Introduced industry leading employee policies for maternity, paternity & adoption

• First Indian app to cross 50 million users
• Crossed 100 million registered customers
• Sachin and Binny Bansal awarded 'Asian of the Year' award by Straits Times of Singapore as part of the 'The Disruptors' group
• Acquired PhonePe, India’s first UPI (Unified Payments Interface) based app
• Invested in Qikpod for locker deliveries
• Introduces No Cost EMI to customers
• Acquires Jabong
• Launched Flipkart Assured

• Flipkart completes a decade
• PhonePe crosses 10mn downloads
• Myntra & Roadster launch the World's First Talking store!
• Flipkart raises $1.4 billion from Tencent, eBay & Microsoft, and acquires eBay India

• Moved into a new campus at Embassy Tech Village - One. Flipkart | Better Together
• Investment from Walmart
• “LinkedIn Top Companies 2018: Where India wants to work now” list, two years in succession
• 1,30,000+ sellers onboarded
• Housing 80 Million+ Products
• Walmart buys 77 percent stake in Flipkart

Also read: The beginning of a new bout between Walmart and Amazon

• 17 Million + products shipped every month
• 20 Million Visits per day
• 175 million registered users
• 80+ Categories

Also Read: Why Walmart is investing in a loss-making Flipkart

Acquisition Timeline 2010 - weRead

2011 - Chakpak

2012 - Letsbuy.com, Mime360

2014 - Myntra, Jeeves

2015 - Appiterate, AdIquity, ngpay, FX Mart

2016 - PhonePe, Jabong

2017 - ebay.in, F1 Info Solutions