Flipkart Ventures is led by a core investment team and supported with expertise from senior Flipkart leaders
Investment team
Lubna Ahmed
Senior Director - Flipkart Ventures
Pursottam Soni
Senior Manager - Flipkart Ventures
Ravi Iyer
Senior Vice President and Head, Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships, Flipkart
Tessa Thomas
Senior Manager - Flipkart Ventures
Flipkart Advisors & Mentors
Anand Lakshminarayanan
SVP, Flipkart Commerce Cloud
Bharath Ram
VP & Product Head
Dinkar Ayilavarapu
Head of Corporate Strategy and Flipkart Wholesale
Hemant Badri
SVP & Head of Supply Chain
Krishna Raghavan
Chief People Officer
Mayur Datar
Chief Data Scientist
Naren Ravula
Head of Product Strategy, Deployment & Flipkart Labs
Prakash Sikaria
SVP Growth
Pramod Jain
SVP Enterprise Risk Mgmt & Corporate Taxation
Pranav Saxena
Chief Product and Technology Officer, Flipkart Healthplus
Rakesh Krishnan
Vice President and Head of Marketplace
Sakait Chaudhury
CFO
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Ravi Iyer
Ravi Iyer has been working with Flipkart over the last 8 years in multiple roles , prior to that spent 12 years plus in ITC Ltd- FMCG business. Currently Heads Corporate Development, Partnerships , IR and Corporate Finance.
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Lubna Ahmed
Lubna leads technology investments, acquisitions and investor relations at Flipkart. She has over 14 years experience in investment banking and corporate development in global markets and tech start ups. In her last role at Ola, she headed Corporate Finance & Investor Relations where she raised over $1bn in private capital and launched Ola's international business. Prior to that, Lubna spent over 9 years in investment banking with Avendus Capital, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank in Mumbai, Singapore and New York. She has received her MBA from Chicago Booth, B.Tech from IIT Bombay and is a CFA Charterholder.
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Pursottam Soni
Pursottam joined Flipkart in 2021 and is currently a Manager with the Ventures team. He focuses on early-stage investments in Fintech, Consumer Tech, Logistics, Commerce and Blockchain. He previously worked with J.P. Morgan in the India Investment Banking team where he was involved in several Equity Private Placements and IPOs in the growth tech space. Deals include Paytm, OYO and other late stage growth tech companies. Pursottam did his undergraduate from IIT Kharagpur and MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.
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Tessa Thomas
Tessa joined Flipkart in 2020 in the Corporate Strategy function where she worked on Fintech, Advertising, and Customer Strategy. As part of Flipkart Ventures, she focuses on early-stage investments in Fintech, ClimateTech, and E-commerce Enablement. Prior to Flipkart, she worked across multiple roles ranging from business development, and category management to strategy consulting in both early and mid-stage start-ups like Headout and Razorpay. She holds an MBA from ISB, Hyderabad, and an undergraduate degree in Economics (Hons) from St.Stephen's College, Delhi.