Around 1,000 deals were signed by Indian startups in 2018 with areas like e-commerce, fintech, sustainability and renewable energy, transportation and logistics, and more.

A lowdown on the watershed moments of 2018.

The move could also adversely impact investments being made by e-commerce firms to bring new sellers on board.

Amazon India along with Samara Capital bought out Aditya Birla's grocery retail chain for Rs 4,200 crore.

The bankrupt companies, which are facing insolvency, were the major booster for the M&A record this year.

Flipkart is well-poised to bring the next 200 million customers into the e-commerce fold, says Krishnamurthy.

Binny Bansal has joined hands with former McKinsey consultant Saikiran Krishnamurthy to launch a venture called xto10x Technologies.

Walmart-backed Flipkart has rejigged its senior leadership team, including the appointment of Sriram Venkataraman as a chief operating officer

The Chennai- and Atlanta-based facilities management technology start-upannounced that it had raised around Rs 45.14 crore in its Series A funding round, led by Tiger Global and existing investor Accel Partners.

Pre-series-A investors committed Rs 297 crore in the 10 months up to October 18, a 26 per cent drop on a pro-rata basis from 2017, the Early Stage Investment Insights Report 2018 found.

Rishi Vasudev, the Vice President of Fashion, Home & Furniture business, Flipkart, says the number of transactions in fashion is far higher than other categories.

It took five years but Amazon, the world's largest ecommerce player, is now also India's largest etailer by gross merchandise value (GMV).

Online retailer Amazon is in an advanced stage of talks to buy around 9.5 per cent stake in Kishore Biyani-led Future Retail

They added that Bansal had also held talks to invest a further USD 35-40 million in artificial intelligence-based healthcare venture Sigtuple, where he is already an investor.