Flipkart CEO makes first solo investment in B2B e-commerce firm Moglix

Kalyan Krishnamurthy joins other notable investors such as Ratan Tata, former Oracle CFO Jeff Epstein, and former top Twitter VP Vikrampati Singhania, among others

Flipkart chief executive officer (CEO) Kalyan Krishnamurthy has invested an undisclosed sum in business-to-business (B2B) industrial goods marketplace Moglix, in what comes as the first solo investment by the top executive. 

Krishnamurthy joins Moglix’s individual investors — a notable list that includes Tata Group chairman-emeritus Ratan Tata, Jeff Epstein, former chief financial officer at Oracle, and Vikrampati Singhania and Shailesh Rao, ex-vice presidents at Twitter and Google, respectively, among others. 

It is not immediately clear whether Krishnamurthy will take an advisory role at Moglix or if the deal is a precursor to a potential business alliance between Moglix and Flipkart, India’s largest