# Kalyan Krishnamurthy

> Kalyan Krishnamurthy is a seed investor at Flipkart backing Internet and Fashion. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Flipkart](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flipkart)
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kalyankrishnamurthy
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/_kalyan_k

Kalyan Krishnamurthy is a seed investor at Flipkart focused on Internet and Fashion. Kalyan Krishnamurthy is based out of Singapore and serves as the CEO of Flipkart. Kalyan previously worked at Tiger Global Management as Managing Director. Kalyan Krishnamurthy attended Asian Institute of Management.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $50k–$9M |
| Series A | $5M–$13M |
| Corporate Round | $30M–$700M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 5 | 19% |
| Fashion | 3 | 12% |
| Software | 3 | 12% |
| Education | 3 | 12% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 12% |

53 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 35% |
| Series A | 4 | 15% |
| Corporate Round | 4 | 15% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 8% |
| Series C | 2 | 8% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 21 | 81% |
| Singapore | 3 | 12% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flam | Flam is an AI-powered mixed reality (MR) publishing platform. | $4.6M | Seed | May 28, 2024 |  |
| Allo Health | Allo Health is a digital health clinic seeking to normalize sexual wellness through personalized and judgment-free healthcare. | $4.4M | Seed | Jan 13, 2022 |  |
| Turnip | Turnip is a live game streaming and community platform. | $12.5M | Series A | Jan 12, 2022 |  |
| Hoggy | Founded by IITians and invested- in by unicorn founders like Kunal Shah and Sameer Pitalwala, Hoggy is a Kid’s learning app that focuses on providing interactive learning for kids aged between 2 to 5 years, while maintaining an absolutely safe space for kids. Through this platform, we've made it possible for creators of kids' content tomonetize their content and earn independently of ads and sponsored content. Hoggy serves as a brilliant platform where such content creators can find their niche target audience and grow the number of their true fans exponentially. | $1.2M | Seed | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| The Whole Truth | The Whole Truth produces plant-based food products aimed at providing snacks and meals made from natural ingredients. The company develops protein bars, nut butters, spreads, and other snack items with a focus on simple, recognizable ingredients without added sugars or artificial additives. Its product range targets consumers seeking convenient,plant-derived options for nutrition and snacking. The Whole Truth emphasizes ingredient transparency, detailing contents on packaging and in product information. The company manages product development, sourcing, and distribution to deliver consistent offerings to retail and direct-to-consumer channels. | $5.8M | Series A | Jul 27, 2021 |  |
| Protonn | Protonn is an all-in-one solution to empower independent professionals | $9M | Seed | Jul 15, 2021 |  |
| AvalonMeta Ventures | AvalonMeta Ventures is a startup combining education and gaming. | $50K | Seed | May 25, 2021 |  |
| Limechat | Limechat provides a personalized shopping experience for D2C companies on chat platforms using L3 conversational AI. Its NLP expertise and a deep focus on the D2C domain helped us develop the right features to enable D2C brands to give compelling buying experiences on chat. | $750K | Seed | Apr 13, 2021 |  |
| Vokal | https://www.vokal.in - Share Knowledge with Indians through Questions & Answers and Opinions about various topics - using voice - and in Indian languages. Visit https://www.vokal.in or get the Vokal App. Learn from others. Vokal bridges the knowledge gap for Indians that don't speak English (~90% of India). India is adiverse country with 100+ languages and 22 official languages. With the internet largely in English, content availability is a big gap. Vokal solves that by enabling peer to peer knowledge sharing using multiple formats like Questions & Answers, Opinions, Chatting with Experts, Live sessions etc. |  | Secondary Market | Mar 17, 2021 |  |
| Qoohoo | Qoohoo is a social platform to create engaging content & experience for your loyal fans & followers. | $800K | Seed | Mar 02, 2021 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Tanglin Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tanglin-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Titan Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/titan-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Blume Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blume-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [iSeed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iseed-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mars Shot Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marsshot-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Flipkart

VC Fund · Bengaluru, India

Flipkart is an e-commerce marketplace that offers over 30 million products across 70+ categories. It provides books, movies, music, games, consoles, gaming accessories, mobiles, mobile accessories, cameras, camera accessories, computers, computer accessories, network components, software, peripherals, home and kitchen appliances, TV, and videoproducts, and personal and health care products. Flipkart, currently 33,000 people strong, has 75 million registered users clocking over 10 million daily visits. Flipkart’s technology has enabled it to deliver 8 million shipments per month – and this number is only growing.Binny and Sachin Bansal founded Flipkart in 2007, with headquarters in Bengaluru in India. In 2018, the company was acquired by the giant retail corporation,

5 contacts available at Flipkart.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ajit Panigrahi | Associate Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajit-panigrahi |
| Anusuya Roy | Director Business Finance at Flipkart | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anusuya-roy |
| Jeyandran Venugopal | Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO) | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeyandran-venugopal |
| Nitin Rajput | Senior Director, Category Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nitin-rajput |
| Vikram Sharma | Director of Product | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vikram-sharma-f493 |

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## FAQ

### What does Kalyan Krishnamurthy invest in?

Kalyan Krishnamurthy invests primarily in Internet, Fashion and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Kalyan Krishnamurthy's check size?

Kalyan Krishnamurthy typically joins rounds of $50k–$9M at Seed, $5M–$13M at Series A and $30M–$700M at Corporate Round. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kalyan Krishnamurthy participates in.

### When did Kalyan Krishnamurthy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kalyan Krishnamurthy closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 26 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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