Today it is among the top 20 Indian Websites according to Alexa. The Bangalore based company is also the largest online bookseller with over 11 million titles. Having strength of 4500 employees, Flipkart broke even in March 2010.

Flipkart is backed by funding from Accel, Tiger Global, MIH and ICONIQ. In this successful journey, the company has acquired startups like WeRead, Mime360, Chakpak.com and Letsbuy.com.

5. Infibeam

Founder: Vishal Mehta, ex- Corporate Communications

Infibeam.com is an e-commerce company based in Ahmedabad. It is an online retailer for books, electronics, and automobiles in India. Infibeam also owns a social education site PresentSir.com and has acquired a photo printing website based in Bangalore, Picsquare.com. It has a separate website for its customer in US, infibeam.us.

In Sept, 2010, Infibeam was rated as one of the Top 5 Digital Brands in the e-commerce category by a survey of the Economic Times. Infibeam also launched an EBook reader, Infibeam Pi, its successor Pi2, and a media device, Infibeam Phi.