Infibeam in July 2015. Infibeam was founded in 2007 by Vishal Mehta, a Cornell and MIT Sloan alumnus. After working for Dell and Amazon.com in the US for five years, Mehta returned to India in 2007 and started Infibeam along with a group of Flipkart employees. He funded the company by selling his personal assets rather than opting for external equity funding. The company was started with an initial capital of 100-150 million. Infibeam.com started as an automobile portal in 2007, but later turned into an online retailer. In 2010, Infibeam launched 'Pi', India's first e-book reader. In 2008, Infibeam acquired
Nau (clothing retailer) to an inability to raise further capital. In 2008 Nau was purchased by Horny Toad, Inc. and reopened for trade in October of that year. In October 2013, Horny Toad sold the Nau brand to Korean-based Black Yak for an undisclosed amount with plans to continue the growth of the business through online, wholesale and eventually its own retail channels. Nau (clothing retailer) Nau is a clothing company, founded in 2007 by Marmot (company) founder Eric Reynolds and based in Portland, Oregon, United States. The company's business model includes the use of textiles developed from sustainable technical fibers and fabrics