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Vipin Kapooria returns to Flipkart as vice president, business finance
Ex-Blinkit CFO rejoins e-commerce giant to steer strategy and profits
MUMBAI: Flipkart has brought back a familiar face to its finance ranks. Vipin Kapooria has been reappointed as vice president, business finance, returning to the e-commerce major’s senior leadership after a brief stint away.
In his new role, Kapooria will oversee business finance strategy and work closely with category heads and leadership teams to sharpen financial discipline, boost profitability and support growth across key businesses. His return signals Flipkart’s intent to tighten the numbers even as it scales operations.
Kapooria rejoins the company after serving as chief financial officer at quick commerce platform Blinkit from September 2024 to January 2026. Before that, he spent more than four years at Flipkart, most recently as vice president, business finance, where he handled finance for high-value categories such as mobiles, electronics and large appliances.
His earlier stint at the company also included roles as senior director and director of business finance, making this a homecoming rather than a fresh arrival.
Over a career spanning more than two decades, Kapooria has built a finance résumé that cuts across e-commerce, hospitality, food services, manufacturing and IT. He has held senior finance roles at OYO, where he served as vice president for new businesses, as well as at Yum! Restaurants International, Whirlpool and Birlasoft.
With experience ranging from treasury and financial planning to category-level profit management, Kapooria is expected to bring both discipline and deal-making instincts back to Flipkart’s finance corridors. His return adds another seasoned hand to the company’s leadership bench as it prepares for its next phase of growth.
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IICT partners with Gativedhi to bring studio production tools to students
New MoU lets students explore AI-driven production pipelines for AVGC-XR
MUMBAI: The Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) has teamed up with Gativedhi Technologies to give students a front-row seat to modern studio production. The collaboration will integrate Gativedhi’s AI-powered production intelligence platform, Shotrack, into academic programmes, letting students experience the workflow systems used by animation, VFX and gaming studios.
Under the MoU, faculty, students and researchers will get hands-on access to Shotrack through beta programmes, pilot deployments and academic evaluations. This will allow them to explore simulated production pipelines, understand asset management, track tasks and monitor schedules, essentially seeing how complex projects come together behind the scenes.
Shotrack is designed to tackle a key industry challenge: when multiple studios work on the same project, differing internal systems often create bottlenecks, slow approvals and complicate version control. The platform provides a unified production environment, enabling smoother collaboration across distributed teams while generating operational insights and predictive analytics to optimise crew allocation, forecast schedule risks and manage costs.
The collaboration also opens doors to Gativedhi’s wider ecosystem. Upcoming tools include StudioTrack, for studio operations management covering budgeting, recruitment and IT infrastructure, and WorkTrack, which measures workflow efficiency and team productivity across industries.
IICT plans to embed these tools into programmes covering animation pipelines, VFX workflows, gaming production and media project management. Students will also benefit from guest lectures, masterclasses, workshops, internships and research projects that connect academic learning with real-world studio practices.
IICT CEO Vishwas Deoskar, said the partnership provides “An environment where production pipeline tools can be explored, tested and refined while students gain insight into how large-scale productions are organised.”
Gativedhi Technologies founder & CEO Senthil Kumar added, “This collaboration introduces students to real-world studio management tools and helps us improve our platform with academic feedback.”
With Shotrack in classrooms, India’s future animators, VFX artists and gaming producers will get a taste of studio life long before they step into one.
