Amazon Indias largest seller Cloudtail which suspended its operations last week following the implementation of latest FDI rules on e-tailers is making a comeback on Thursday after.
Catamaran ventures cloudtail. Cloudtail is one of the biggest sellers on Amazon India platform. Cloudtail is a joint venture between Amazon and Catamaran Ventures.
Sources said NR Narayana Murthys Catamaran Ventures has hiked its stake in Cloudtails parent company Prione Business Services with Amazons holding coming down from 49 per cent to 24 per cent. Hence Cloudtail was technically not an Amazon group company. Amazon Asias stake reduced to 24 per cent from 49 per cent too.
Amazon has sold 25 per cent of its shares to Prione Business Services Pvt a. In February 2019 Catamaran Ventures raised its stake in Cloudtails parent company Prione Business Services. Cloudtail is no longer a group company of Amazon after NR Narayana Murthys Catamaran Ventures increased its stake in Cloudtails parent company Prione Business Services to 76 from 51 earlier New Delhi.
Cloudtail India is a joint venture between Amazon and NR Narayana Murthys family office Catamaran Ventures. A minority stake in Udaan will give NR Narayana Murthys Catamaran Ventures a foothold in Indias B2B e-commerce space dominated by IndiaMart JioMart Amazon Business and Flipkart. Catamaran Ventures is owned by Infosys co-founder NR.
While Murthys Catamaran Ventures indirectly holds 76 per cent in Cloudtail and Amazon the remaining 24 per cent the firms two top posts - chief executive and finance director - were with the US retailerCloudtails. Catamaran is a venture capital firm created and owned by NRN Murthy the founder of Infosys. Murthy is the father-in-law of Rishi Sunak who is the current Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK government.
Amazons proxy seller Cloudtaila joint venture between the commerce firm and Infosys cofounder NRN Murthys Catamaran Ventures has received a. Catamaran has played a strong role to support and scale Cloudtail enabling thousands of SMEs in India. Cloudtail a joint venture between Amazon India and Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthys Catamaran Ventures is facing a tax demand in India.