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• 10club raises $40 million seed funding to build Thrasio of India - 10club, a six-month-old Indian startup that is building a Thrasio-like venture, said on Tuesday it has raised $40 million in what is one of the largest seed financing rounds in the South Asian market. The round was co-led by Fireside Ventures (a prominent Indian investor in consumer and hardware tech space) and an unnamed global […]
  Topics: round, ventures, indian, thrasio, funding, startup, india, raised, techcrunch, seed, build, firms, million, ecommerce, 10club, brands, raises.
• Amazon-backed Indian D2C beauty brand MyGlamm raises $71 million - MyGlamm, a direct-to-consumer beauty brand in India that sells most of its products through its own website, app and retail touch points, said on Monday it has raised $71.3 million in a financing round as the Mumbai-headquartered firm looks to scale its business across the South Asian market. The startup had raised $23.5 million in […]
  Topics: raises, firms, d2c, startup, popxo, investment, amazonbacked, users, indian, brand, million, techcrunch, venture, directtoconsumer, myglamm, round, beauty.
• Another huge funding round gives Veho room to deliver - This latest round gives the company $300 million in total funding raised in the past two years and a $1.5 billion valuation.
  Topics: veho, logistics, million, funding, deliver, capital, gives, series, room, techcrunch, delivery, round, company, market, huge, companies.
• Aplazo takes in $27M to increase adoption of BNPL in Mexico - Since its seed round, Aplazo grew its total processing volume more than eight times and in less than a year has partnered with over 1,000 merchants.
  Topics: offline, adoption, pay, later, buy, round, mexico, company, companies, aplazo, bnpl, peña, credit, techcrunch, increase, 27m, takes.
• Archive back with fresh funding as it builds community marketing space - Its first products were a Shopify app that automatically detects, classifies and saves Instagram stories, and Archive Communities, which makes influencer marketing programmatic.
  Topics: round, community, archive, marketing, million, customers, app, merchants, company, woo, funding, space, fresh, techcrunch, builds.
• Berlin Brands Group, now valued at $1B+, raises $700M to buy and scale merchants that sell on marketplaces like Amazon - Berlin Brands Group (BBG) — one of the new wave of e-commerce startups hoping to build lucrative economies of scale around buying up smaller brands that sell on marketplaces like Amazon and using technology to run and scale them more efficiently — has picked up a big round of funding to fill out that mission. […]
  Topics: brands, space, merchants, sell, bbg, techcrunch, round, ecommerce, amazon, raises, scale, marketplaces, valued, buy, equity, bain, group, million.
• Brazil’s Olist gets its horn with new $186M funding round - Olist said it tripled its size in 2021 and closed on four acquisitions within the last year.
  Topics: capital, horn, small, 186m, techcrunch, olist, funding, technology, series, round, gets, retailers, brazils, wellington, company, sachs.
• Brazil’s Petlove raises $150M from Riverwood, SoftBank to sell pet products and services online - Petlove&Co, a São Paulo-based digital platform for products and services for the pet market, announced today that it has raised about $150 million (R$750 million) in a funding round led by Riverwood Capital. The round is nearly double that of what Petlove has raised in its history. The company started its life as PetSuperMarket when […]
  Topics: company, round, raised, pet, techcrunch, million, petlove, online, softbank, sell, raises, services, market, according, total, riverwood, products.
• Briqpay raises 2 million euros - Briqpay, a Swedish company that offers solutions for B2B payments, has just closed a seed round of 2 million euros. The funding round was led by Swedish private equity firm eEquity. With the help of this money, Briqpay wants to become the leading B2B payment supplier. Almost a year ago,… Continue reading
  Topics: system, b2b, swedish, million, solutions, euros, round, briqpay, eequity, solution, raises, payment, ecommerce.
• Cannabis commerce company Dutchie doubles valuation following new funding round - The industry will continue to see adoption across all areas, especially as more people are educated on finding the right product and modality and more states legalize cannabis.
  Topics: company, lipson, dutchie, following, techcrunch, series, valuation, funding, investors, doubles, million, industry, commerce, capital, round, cannabis.
• Castiron serves up a $6M seed round to support ‘food artisans’ - The pandemic hasn’t been easy for anyone, but the food service industry has been hit particularly hard. More than 90,000 restaurants and bars have closed, leaving workers unemployed in an already precarious industry. And those who kept their jobs faced the stressful demands of customer-facing work in a pandemic. In response to the changed industry […]
  Topics: tools, castiron, seed, artisans, josephson, whats, customers, round, food, building, users, techcrunch, businesses, 6m, support, industry, serves.
• Chinese Amazon aggregator Nebula Brands raises $50M led by L Catterton - 2021 has been a rosy year for China-based Amazon vendors looking for exits. Roll-ups, or brand aggregators, have been flooding China’s export-oriented e-commerce market with capital to scoop up sellers. The roll-ups themselves are fueled by venture capital, such as Silicon Valley’s Markai, which recently raised its seed round of $4 million from investors like […]
  Topics: capital, nebula, company, million, brands, l, amazon, raises, vendors, techcrunch, led, chinese, aggregator, round, rollups, china, catterton.
• Commerce platform ShopUp raises $75 million in Bangladesh’s largest funding - ShopUp, a startup that is digitizing neighborhood stores in Bangladesh, has raised $75 million in a new financing round that is also the largest in the South Asian market. Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures led ShopUp’s $75 million Series B round. Prosus Ventures as well as existing investors Flourish Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, and VEON Ventures […]
  Topics: small, shops, funding, ventures, platform, bangladesh, startup, raises, stores, round, bangladeshs, india, commerce, largest, million, techcrunch, shopup.
• Consumer goods software company Aforza bags $22M to open US headquarters - Built on Salesforce and Google Cloud platforms, consumer goods companies can use Aforza to digitally transform product distribution and customer engagement.
  Topics: company, bags, using, industry, round, 22m, headquarters, software, salesforce, techcrunch, technology, goods, aforza, dinardo, consumer, open.
• Convictional grabs another round of funding to help retailers quickly onboard vendors - Retailers can more easily discover and change out inventory and get to their first orders in as little as 10 days versus three months.
  Topics: vendors, techcrunch, company, suppliers, round, retailers, funding, kirkness, grouchy, onboard, series, quickly, grabs, convictional, million, edi, help.
• CookUnity whips up nationwide expansion following $47M round - CookUnity combines the ready-to-eat meal category with a chef-focused business model that provides restaurant-quality meals at home.
  Topics: marietti, food, following, kitchens, company, whips, cookunity, expansion, round, techcrunch, 47m, series, million, nationwide, business, chefs, chef.
• Creadev seasons Salted with new funding for its QSR brands - Salted created six brands so far, including moonbowls, Califlower Pizza and lulubowls, and serves food from Chinese takeout to pizza to salads.
  Topics: seven, including, funding, lejal, salted, food, qsr, brands, appelbaum, creadev, techcrunch, seasons, round, company, million.
• Curated wants to be the expert in your pocket when making that next big purchase - Consumers answer a few questions about the products they are looking for, and Curated will match them to a category expert who provides a list of personalized recommendations.
  Topics: product, pocket, expert, vivas, series, purchase, big, curated, used, shopping, right, techcrunch, company, million, wants, making, round.
• Daily Crunch: Google dumps FloC plan, proposes new Topics API for ad targeting - Today our cup overflows with news. There’s simply too much going on to cover in a single newsletter, so I’ve tried to fit in as much as possible.
  Topics: writes, round, crunch, startup, million, targeting, google, dumps, plan, today, data, topics, proposes, raised, know, daily, floc, company, techcrunch.
• Daring Foods bites into third round in 12 months as plant-based chicken product enters Walmart - The company saw 900% growth over the past 12 months and will be using the new funding to support that growth and new innovation.
  Topics: product, plantbased, walmart, mackay, chicken, months, enters, growth, company, round, products, million, daring, foods, techcrunch.
• Deliverect raises $150M at a $1.4B+ valuation to streamline online and offline food orders - As we have started to see the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, food delivery has shaped up to continue to be a major business. In England, for example, some 76% of people order at least one takeaway a week, whereas it was 60% pre-pandemic. Now, a startup called Deliverect that has built a […]
  Topics: techcrunch, orders, restaurants, offline, number, business, streamline, food, company, valuation, restaurant, raises, online, xu, round, pandemic, 150m, delivery, deliverect.
• Deliverr bags another giant round as it works to move inventory closer to customers - E-commerce fulfillment is certainly having a moment.
  Topics: techcrunch, round, customers, ecommerce, billion, inventory, giant, abbott, global, closer, chain, fulfillment, bags, works, technology, deliverr, company, merchants.
• Disco gets brands to boogie together on customer acquisition - Disco used to be Co-op Commerce, and leadership says the new name better reflects the company's focus on consumer discovery.
  Topics: costs, gets, round, acquisition, company, shopify, techcrunch, marketing, customer, sherline, brands, disco, funding, boogie.
• Do you want to export? eBay launches its second round of support for Mexican SMEs - eBay will invest 5 million pesos to help small and medium Mexican companies accelerate their export process.
  Topics: program, launches, mexican, smes, businesses, online, round, export, second, store, ebay, support, business.
• E-commerce logistics startup Hive buzzes following $34M investment - Hive levels the logistics playing field by streamlining fulfillment so that DTC companies get the same inventory management, cost structure and customer notifications that big brands use.
  Topics: team, investment, started, services, fulfillment, hive, round, company, following, ecommerce, buzzes, logistics, 34m, delivery, startup, brands, times, techcrunch.
• E-commerce-as-a-service platform Cart.com picks up $98M to give brands scaling tools - The company provides software, services and infrastructure to small businesses so they can scale online.
  Topics: round, platform, company, services, tools, techcrunch, 98m, companies, cartcom, funding, ecommerce, tariq, picks, brands, ecommerceasaservice, scaling, million.
• Elude secures additional funding as it aims to improve travel booking experience - Elude launched on iOS, but has plans to launch a web version and Android version in the coming months.
  Topics: improve, venture, additional, simon, partners, money, secures, funding, companies, booking, travel, round, experience, techcrunch, million, elude, shonk, aims.
• Filing: Instant grocery startup Gopuff to raise $1B on a $15B post-money valuation - Gopuff, the “instant” grocery delivery startup that has been on an acquisition and expansion tear in the last several months to scale its business, is also racing to raise money to fuel those efforts. Documents uncovered by Prime Unicorn Index and shared with TechCrunch show that the startup has filed papers in Delaware to raise […]
  Topics: postmoney, instant, valuation, filing, market, 1b, raise, techcrunch, startup, delivery, gopuff, grocery, sources, round, billion.
• Fintech startup SellersFunding raises $166.5M in equity, credit round to support e-commerce sellers - SellersFunding created a lending and financial services platform to streamline global commerce for thousands of marketplaces, including working capital, cross-border cash management and taxes.
  Topics: company, pero, sales, credit, payments, sellers, marketplaces, techcrunch, equity, ecommerce, startup, fintech, small, round, fees, million, support, raises, sellersfunding.
• Forest bags $8M seed round to acquire Japanese e-commerce brands - Japan has been the birthplace of traditional arts and crafts since ancient times. Craftmanship, meticulous attention to detail and balance of design and functionality have contributed to creating unique Japanese products like pottery, traditional fabrics, washi (paper), woodwork, glasses, bento-boxes and more.  This craftsmanship continues to be passed along from generation to generation and live […]
  Topics: seed, round, market, yuhara, japanese, acquire, products, 8m, japan, bags, sales, million, ecommerce, techcrunch, forest, brands.
• Fresh from new round, Egypt’s proptech Nawy plans full-suite offering - Egyptian proptech startup Nawy, which began life in 2016 as an AI-driven property, listing has grown to offer brokerage services, supporting the closing of property deals. It is now looking for its next path of growth after connecting 40,000 buyers to sellers last year alone, winning the confidence of the Sawiris family — Egypt’s wealthiest […]
  Topics: market, fresh, preowned, mortgage, egypts, property, estate, sector, techcrunch, fullsuite, million, proptech, plans, real, startup, resale, round, nawy, offering.
• Fresh round of $355M lifts online checkout company Bolt into decacorn territory - This newest raise comes just three months after Bolt took in a sizable $393 million in Series D funding.
  Topics: company, lifts, decacorn, checkout, shoppers, territory, bolts, round, fresh, bolt, technology, network, online, breslow, series, funding, techcrunch.
• FullStory raises $103M at a $1.8B valuation to combat rage clicks on websites and apps - Even with all the years of work that have been put into improving how screen-based interfaces work, our experiences with websites, mobile apps and any other interactive service you might use still often come up short: we can’t find what we want, we’re bombarded with exactly what we don’t need or the flow is just […]
  Topics: websites, customers, clicks, customer, apps, 18b, raises, tools, rage, experiences, valuation, techcrunch, combat, round, experience, fullstory, data, company, digital.
• Gift-giving mobile app Goody nabs more capital to scale in time for the holidays - The holiday season is in full swing, and just in September and October, the volume of gifts sent grew by 615%.
  Topics: holidays, million, round, scale, mobile, goody, nabs, latin, having, techcrunch, capital, lando, corporate, gifting, app, giftgiving, company.
• Gopuff, the instant grocery startup, is raising $1.5B in a convertible note at up to a $40B valuation, ahead of going public as soon as mid-2022 - Instant grocery — where urban-dwelling consumers buy food and other essentials and can get them delivered in 15 minutes or less — continues to be a big business, and one of the juggernauts in the space is now raising a big round of funding to meet that opportunity: Gopuff is in the process of raising […]
  Topics: mid2022, soon, convertible, funding, startup, valuation, raising, techcrunch, instant, gopuff, grocery, big, note, round, public.
• Headless commerce company fabric sews up unicorn milestone following new round - Fabric offers over 300 commerce APIs and associated framework to connect a company’s sales channel to one place and the ability to use the entire commerce suite or individual products.
  Topics: headless, company, techcrunch, commerce, million, following, masud, unicorn, sales, milestone, round, sews, fabric, series, product, platform.
• Heyday raises $555M to buy up and scale more D2C brands in the Amazon marketplace universe - Consolidation to have better economies of scale is one of the biggest themes in the world of e-commerce, and today a player in the world of online retail is announcing a large round of funding to double down on its approach to the concept. San Francisco-based Heyday — which buys up and then grows direct-to-consumer […]
  Topics: brands, million, d2c, heyday, round, scale, universe, marketplace, team, raised, group, merchants, techcrunch, raises, buy, rymarz, amazon.
• Indian social commerce DealShare raises $144 million, eyes international expansion - High-profile investors are doubling down on their bets to explore the future of social commerce in India. DealShare said on Thursday it has raised $144 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its presence in the South Asian market and eye opportunities in international markets. The new financing round, a Series […]
  Topics: startup, indian, eyes, commerce, expansion, million, round, international, ecommerce, capital, potential, social, shopping, techcrunch, raises, dealshare.
• India’s GlobalBees joins unicorn club for its Thrasio-like house of brands - GlobalBees, which raised one of the largest Series A financing rounds in India earlier this year, has entered the unicorn club as the New Delhi-headquartered firm scales its Thrasio-like house of brands. Premji Invest, the investment firm controlled by Indian tycoon Azim Premji, led the nine-month-old startup’s Series B financing round, the young firm disclosed […]
  Topics: club, globalbees, joins, capital, indias, techcrunch, trying, brands, startups, thrasiolike, million, round, house, india, financing, unicorn.
• India’s Licious raises $192 million for international expansion - Licious, a Bangalore-based startup that sells fresh meat and seafood online, has raised $192 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its footprint beyond the South Asian market. The new round — a Series F — was led by Singapore’s investment firm Temasek and Multiples Private Equity. The round, which brings […]
  Topics: vertex, indian, indias, expansion, growth, supply, licious, international, fresh, startup, seafood, million, techcrunch, round, raises, meat.
• India’s Moglix valued at $2.6 billion in $250 million funding - Moglix has more than doubled its valuation to about $2.6 billion from $1 billion just eight months ago as the Indian industrial business-to-business marketplace aggressively scales its offerings in many parts of the world. Alpha Wave Global (formerly called Falcon Edge Capital), which led the seven-year-old startup’s previous funding, has returned alongside Tiger Global to […]
  Topics: financing, startup, supply, techcrunch, platform, chain, round, indias, valued, funding, moglix, india, global, billion, manufacturing, million.
• India’s OfBusiness in talks to raise new funds at over $4.5 billion valuation - OfBusiness, an e-commerce startup that sells industrial goods and provides small businesses with credit, is in talks to raise a new round of funding at a valuation of over $4.5 billion, three sources familiar with those talks told me. If the talks materialize, it would be the fourth financing round OfBusiness will secure this year. […]
  Topics: raise, sources, funds, indias, techcrunch, round, startup, small, talks, billion, finance, valuation, ofbusiness, realization.
• India’s OfBusiness valued at $5 billion in $325 million funding - OfBusiness, a New Delhi-headquartered startup that sells industrial goods and provides small businesses with credit, has secured its fourth financing round this year and is now valued at about $5 billion. Alpha Wave Global, Tiger Global and SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the startup’s $325 million Series G financing round. Alpha Wave Global, formerly known […]
  Topics: funding, indias, valued, million, billion, global, mohapatra, techcrunch, b2b, financing, wave, startup, round, commerce, ofbusiness.
• India’s Spinny valued at over $1.75 billion in $280 million funding - Spinny, a Gurgaon-based startup that operates a platform to facilitate the purchase and sale of used cars, is the latest firm to become a unicorn in the world’s second-largest internet market. Spinny has raised more than $280 million in its Series E financing round, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The round, which […]
  Topics: earlier, billion, indias, market, round, global, valued, used, funding, growth, india, million, spinny, techcrunch, startup.
• Instant grocery delivery startup JOKR bags another huge round to enter unicorn status - The company touts itself as “one of the fastest companies to reach unicorn status in history.”
  Topics: company, getting, techcrunch, enter, unicorn, instant, wenzel, status, huge, startup, jokr, york, grocery, growth, round, capital.
• Inventa poised to enter Mexico, Colombia with its supplier marketplace - Its technology connects retailers with suppliers for inventory discovery and also provides credit so retailers can flexibly pay suppliers.
  Topics: techcrunch, enter, marketplace, round, poised, mexico, supplier, salama, capital, suppliers, head, products, inventa, growth, retailers, colombia.
• Ivorian e-commerce startup ANKA, formerly Afrikrea, raises $6.2M pre-Series A - A study by McKinsey & Company on general e-commerce activities in Africa says consumer spending will reach over $2 trillion in the next three years. Much of this spending falls under the importation of products, primarily influenced by consumer demand and the positioning of major e-commerce platforms in Africa. Afrikrea, an Ivorian startup founded in […]
  Topics: anka, startup, afrikrea, 62m, sellers, marketplace, africa, platforms, company, ivorian, raises, round, techcrunch, channels, preseries, ecommerce.
• Jeff Bezos invests in Indonesian e-commerce startup Ula - Updated at 8.15pm PT, October 3: In a statement just now, Ula confirmed TechCrunch’s reporting, saying it has raised $87 million in its Series B financing round. The round was, as TechCrunch reported, co-led by Prosus Ventures, Tencent, and B Capital. Jeff Bezos invested in the new round. “We launched in 2020, with a single-minded […]
  Topics: ecommerce, techcrunch, ula, amazon, bezos, india, b, round, investors, invests, indonesian, retailers, jeff, startup, capital.
• Kenyan low-cost ISP Poa Internet secures $28 million in round led by AfDB-backed Africa50, plans to link region with cheap, limit-free connectivity - In 2020, Africa50, an infrastructure financier backed by the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) Group and a good number of African governments, hosted an innovation challenge that sought affordable and reliable solutions for last-mile internet connectivity across the continent. A proposal by Poa Internet, a Kenyan startup, beat 673 others from across the world as a […]
  Topics: kenya, continent, lowcost, mobile, africa50, startup, connectivity, round, data, region, secures, poa, plans, bank, limitfree, internet, video, link, million, techcrunch.
• Kenya’s MarketForce raises $2M, plans to focus on its B2B retail marketplace RejaReja - A 2016 study by global consultancy PwC states that an estimated 90% of sales in Africa’s major economies come through informal channels like markets and kiosks. In sub-Saharan Africa, 90% of these household retail transactions are carried out via a network of about 100 million MSMEs.  Africa’s retail payments, mostly cash-based, is expected to reach […]
  Topics: product, round, b2b, marketforce, plans, services, kenyas, payments, marketplace, africa, retail, distribution, focus, techcrunch, raises, rejareja, platform.
• Korean internet giant Naver backs e-commerce aggregator New Vessel in seed round - According to eMarketer, Japan and Korea’s e-commerce markets were estimated at $144 billion and $121 billion, respectively, in 2021. Despite the large e-commerce market size, both countries have fewer e-commerce aggregators than other countries with smaller markets, South Korean e-commerce aggregator New Vessel said. The startup announced today it has raised an undisclosed seed round co-led by […]
  Topics: japan, naver, korea, sellers, korean, giant, south, aggregator, techcrunch, ecommerce, round, brands, backs, seed, lee, vessel, internet.
• La Belle Vie raises $28 million to build an online supermarket from scratch - French startup La Belle Vie announced that it has raised a $28.2 million (€25 million) Series B round led by Left Lane and Quadrille Capital, with existing investor Capagro also participating. The company operates an online grocery store in the Paris area. Online grocery delivery services and so-called quick-commerce startups are quite trendy. In fact, […]
  Topics: supermarket, order, round, million, belle, paris, online, techcrunch, company, build, products, vie, scratch, raises, la.
• Live video shopping startup Talkshoplive brings in another $6M - Five months after announcing a $3 million seed round from Spero Ventures, shopping-focused live video host Talkshoplive is back, this time with a $6 million seed extension led by Raine Ventures.
  Topics: moore, startup, video, 6m, talkshoplive, round, million, brings, commerce, raine, seed, shopping, live, techcrunch, company, ventures.
• Logistics startup Stord raises $90M in Kleiner Perkins-led round, becomes a unicorn and acquires a company - When Kleiner Perkins led Stord’s $12.4 million Series A in 2019, its founders were in their early 20s and so passionate about their startup that they each dropped out of their respective schools to focus on growing the business. Fast-forward two years and Stord — an Atlanta-based company that has developed a cloud supply chain — […]
  Topics: company, henry, fulfillment, logistics, stords, million, techcrunch, series, startup, kleiner, perkinsled, round, unicorn, stord, supply, raises, software.
• ManoMano raises $355 million for its home improvement e-commerce platform - French startup ManoMano has raised a Series F funding round of $355 million led by Dragoneer Investment Group. The company operates an e-commerce platform focused on DIY, home improvement and gardening products. It is currently available in six European countries. Following today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of $2.6 billion. In addition […]
  Topics: platform, million, improvement, todays, round, startup, company, ecommerce, raises, logistics, products, group, techcrunch, manomano.
• Marketplace platform Mirakl raises $555 million at $3.5 billion valuation - French startup Mirakl has closed a new Series E funding round of $555 million. Following this round, the company is now valued at $3.5 billion. Mirakl helps you launch a marketplace on your online store for your end customers or for your B2B clients. It’s a software-as-a-service marketplace, meaning that Mirakl manages the marketplace for […]
  Topics: valuation, platform, techcrunch, round, team, million, billion, online, marketplace, thirdparty, youre, stores, raises, mirakl, funding, sellers.
• MaxAB, the Egyptian B2B food and grocery delivery startup, raises $40M for expansion - Globally, food and grocery delivery startups have been raising mega-rounds of late, especially those in Europe as the pandemic has given rise to more people ordering online more than ever. This growth has translated to an increase in volume across e-commerce platforms all over the world. While there has relatively been no action in Africa […]
  Topics: africa, b2b, round, middle, startup, grocery, technology, company, merchants, food, supply, raises, maxab, delivery, expansion, egyptian, growth, elmegharbel, techcrunch.
• Medical supply marketplace startup bttn. sews up additional $5M seed - Founders JT Garwood and Jack Miller started Bttn after seeing the challenges medical organizations had during the global pandemic to not only find supplies, but also get fair prices for them.
  Topics: million, supplies, round, startup, seed, techcrunch, medical, additional, 5m, garwood, fuse, marketplace, healthcare, supply, bttn, customers, sews.
• Mirakl raises 468 million euros in funding - The enterprise marketplace software as a service platform provider Mirakl, announced that it has raised 468 million euros in a Series E funding round. This increases the company’s value to more than 2,92 billion euros. The financing will be used to rapidly expand Mirakl further. Mirakl is a French marketplace… Continue reading
  Topics: million, mirakl, growth, funding, round, marketplace, enable, enterprise, platform, raises, euros.
• MoEngage raises 27.3 million euros - Customer engagement platform MoEngage has raised 32.5 million dollars (27.34 million euros) in a funding round led by India-dedicated private equity firm Multiples. With the money, MoEngage wants to invest more in the UK and the DACH region. “We want to go to the next stage of our growth plans… Continue reading
  Topics: moengage, wants, plans, raises, europe, euros, round, funding, uk, stage, million, customer, growth.
• Morocco’s Chari valued at $100M in bridge round as it looks to pilot BNPL services - Moroccan B2B e-commerce and retail startup Chari confirmed to TechCrunch that it has secured a bridge round at a $100 million valuation. The bridge round welcomed new investors Khwarizmi Ventures, Air Angels and Afri Mobility, the venture capital arm of AKWA Group. They join existing investors (Y Combinator, Rocket Internet, Global Founders Capital, Plug n […]
  Topics: looks, moroccos, shop, pilot, company, valued, round, chari, services, money, techcrunch, owners, bnpl, bridge, debt.
• NayaPay secures $13 million, largest seed funding in South Asia for its messaging and payment app - Pakistan-based fintech platform NayaPay has raised $13 million in a seed round to roll out its multi-service messaging and payment app, and to build payment acceptance and financial management tools for businesses in the South Asian country. NayaPay CEO and founder Danish Lakhani told TechCrunch that the super-app allows people residing in Pakistan to send […]
  Topics: pakistan, south, techcrunch, seed, million, funding, secures, bank, payment, messaging, payments, round, digital, largest, capital, nayapay.
• New capital positions luxury goods reseller Rebag for next round of innovation - The company has since seen a trend of owning fewer items, but of those that are purchased, they are of higher quality, made better, longer lasting and retain some resale value.
  Topics: capital, goods, reseller, resale, market, techcrunch, items, positions, technology, round, luxury, innovation, million, gorra, rebag, company.
• Novo, the SMB neobank, nabs $90M at a $700M valuation - Novo, the startup building a new kind of banking service from the ground up for small and medium businesses, has closed a significant round of funding to take the next step in growing its platform. It has raised $90 million, a Series B round that values the Miami-based startup at $700 million, funding that it […]
  Topics: 90m, techcrunch, growth, novo, company, 700m, nabs, neobank, small, series, businesses, round, smb, valuation, products, built, rangel.
• Ocurate raises $3.5M to show customer lifetime value for B2C companies - Ocurate believes lifetime value is a better prediction of how much profit a customer will bring to the company.
  Topics: value, customer, round, techcrunch, customers, ocurate, data, clients, raises, lifetime, companies, 35m, b2c, company, konitzer.
• Packhelp raises $45.6M to expand its custom packaging biz - Warsaw-based Packhelp has been riding the boom in e-commerce and on-demand delivery to scale a business that helps even the smallest brands wrap their wares in eye-catching custom packaging, while counting giants like H&M and Uber Eats among its customers, too. Since being founded back in 2015 — launching its custom packaging design platform in […]
  Topics: 456m, supply, sustainability, customers, carbon, packhelp, sustainable, million, product, biz, techcrunch, packaging, round, custom, expand, raises.
• Pakistan’s Airlift raises $85 million for its quick commerce startup, eyes international expansion - A one-year-old startup that is attempting to build the railroads for e-commerce in Pakistan has just secured a mega round of funding in a major boost to the South Asia nation’s nascent startup ecosystem. Airlift operates a quick commerce service in eight cities, including Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad in Pakistan. Users can order groceries, fresh […]
  Topics: round, airlift, techcrunch, pakistans, founder, raises, usman, quick, international, commerce, executive, startup, chief, pakistan, million, eyes, expansion.
• Pancake aims to make customers flip for its virtual home design platform - Pancake is democratizing interior design services to make it accessible to everyone.
  Topics: flip, designer, pancake, seed, platform, aims, virtual, techcrunch, space, work, round, company, design, furniture, customers.
• Pangaea Holdings, developing men’s personal care brands, raises $68M, including minority stake from Eurazeo - Pangaea started with the launch of men’s skincare brand, Lumin, containing natural Korean-based formulations.
  Topics: eurazeo, holdings, company, brands, products, personal, mens, gani, techcrunch, brand, including, million, raises, stake, skincare, series, round, minority, pangaea.
• Placer.ai, a location analytics startup, finds $100M at a $1B valuation - Many of us are moving around these days a lot less than we used to — because of COVID, we’re working from home instead of an office; and we are traveling and going out less. Now, as we shift back into more “normal” behavior, a startup that’s helping to better understand where and how we […]
  Topics: finds, startup, physical, company, 1b, valuation, placerai, data, using, ventures, real, 100m, platform, placer, analytics, location, techcrunch, customers, round.
• Pod Foods bags additional funding to overhaul the grocery supply chain - The company offers a data-driven approach to streamlining the retailer procurement process with brands while connecting consumers to a wider variety of products.
  Topics: brands, grocery, pod, ventures, techcrunch, chain, million, foods, products, shelves, supply, round, bags, company, funding, overhaul, russell, additional.
• Productsup raises $70M to help retailers navigate sales strategies in the choppy world of e-commerce - To many people, e-commerce is synonymous with shopping on Amazon, but the reality is that a retailer has the option to use a bundle of different channels to sell and market products — and many do. Today, a startup called Productsup, which has built a platform that helps retailers navigate that landscape, is announcing $70 […]
  Topics: round, market, shopping, strategies, navigate, sales, retailers, channels, productsup, help, ecommerce, solutions, raises, techcrunch, world, companies, commerce.
• Quip’s new $100M round will usher in more than just clean teeth - Quip is focused on growth, innovation and community building among its over 7.5 million customers in 100 countries.
  Topics: quips, usher, company, techcrunch, investment, team, round, teeth, care, clean, quip, million, launched, oral, products, 100m, personal.
• Rensource-spinoff Sabi closes $6M bridge round, expands B2B retail platform outside Nigeria - Nigeria’s informal trade sector, worth over $244 billion, has more than 40 million micro, small and medium businesses. Most of these businesses operated offline until a few years ago when startups brought about digitization by providing infrastructure and a gamut of e-commerce and financial services. One-year-old Sabi — a spinoff from Rensource, an African energy […]
  Topics: outside, expands, closes, platform, round, retail, techcrunch, offline, b2b, sector, rensourcespinoff, company, adesina, sabi, african, nigeria, informal, ecommerce.
• Salsify secures $200M as the boom in e-commerce catapults its valuation to $2B - E-commerce is booming, but it’s become increasingly apparent over the years that the businesses that are able to capitalize on that trend — and contribute to that growth — are those able to grasp the right technology to navigate the space. Today, Salsify, one of the startups building e-commerce solutions to that end, is announcing […]
  Topics: 2b, companies, company, ecommerce, million, salsify, round, brands, purcell, catapults, tech, techcrunch, work, valuation, secures, boom, 200m.
• Seel secures $17M round to infuse AI in customer product returns - Merchants can add “return assurance” to an order, if it is returned in the next 30 days, Seel, instead of the merchant, will pay for the refund.
  Topics: ai, underwriting, returns, return, assurance, product, secures, peng, techcrunch, 17m, customer, ecommerce, order, sold, round, seel, merchants, infuse.
• Sequoia Capital India looks to double down on commerce startup Bikayi - Bikayi is in talks to raise about $50 million in a new financing round, four people familiar with the matter told me, as the Indian startup looks to scale its platform that helps small businesses set up and run their e-commerce stores. Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital India are holding conversations with the Indian startup […]
  Topics: capital, million, india, sources, techcrunch, double, sequoia, startup, commerce, bikayi, platform, small, round, looks, businesses.
• Sequoia Capital India, STV back Dubai-based BNPL provider tabby in $54M extension round - Tabby, the Dubai-based buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform that lets users shop, pay later and earn cash from over 3,000 global brands, including Adidas, IKEA and Bloomingdale’s, has completed a Series B extension of $54 million. It follows tabby’s initial Series B round of $50 million announced last August that valued the company at […]
  Topics: stv, provider, series, techcrunch, million, round, sequoia, capital, dubaibased, india, bnpl, extension, market, arab, company, tabby.
• ShipBob nabs $200M at a $1B+ valuation to help e-commerce companies run logistics like Amazon’s - E-commerce saw a massive surge of activity and growth in 2020; and while we may hear a lot about how big companies like Amazon got even bigger during the COVID-19 pandemic, that rising tide also lifted a lot of smaller boats. And that, in turn, has had a big impact on the wider e-commerce ecosystem. […]
  Topics: online, amazons, round, shipping, help, amazon, shipbob, customers, run, companies, logistics, valuation, techcrunch, growth, ecommerce, nabs.
• SmarterTravel sheds HopJump name, begins a new journey with $9.5M round - SmarterTravel provides personalized travel recommendations and targeted travel content.
  Topics: managing, begins, sheds, company, going, global, techcrunch, pandemic, smartertravel, hopjump, million, growth, vacation, travel, 95m, journey, staab, round.
• SoftBank leads $150M round for Firework’s shoppable video - Firework provides tools for retailers and consumer brands to tap into their own customer data to build engaging video experiences across their own digital properties and social channels.
  Topics: round, shoppable, live, softbank, livestreaming, fireworks, video, 150m, techcrunch, commerce, firework, market, investment, sales, leads, million.
• Spinn taps into $40M to create better coffee brewing, discovery experiences - When you are a coffee lover, taste matters, and Spinn is brewing up some fresh funding to bring connected coffee to new customers through its hardware-enabled coffee marketplace.
  Topics: funding, machines, cup, machine, rode, round, discovery, 40m, experiences, taps, spinn, coffee, techcrunch, better, spark, create, brewing.
• Sproutl is an online marketplace for gardeners founded by former Farfetch executives - Meet Sproutl, a marketplace for gardeners living in the U.K. The startup founded by former Farfetch executives has raised a $9 million seed round. It wants to make gardening more accessible by providing a curated list of items, relevant advice as well as inspiration. Index Ventures is leading the round in the startup with Ada […]
  Topics: garden, ecommerce, startup, farfetch, videos, sproutl, online, gardeners, quite, techcrunch, marketplace, executives, uk, founded, gardening, round.
• Tendenube becomes the new unicorn in Mexico after receiving an investment of 500 million dollars - The company will become the fifth most valuable startup in Latin America.
  Topics: unicorn, investment, dollars, round, latin, investors, partners, receiving, mexico, capital, funds, tendenube, invested, million.
• Thatch using $3M round to put travel creators on the map - The mobile app provides tools for travel creators to build their own travel-based businesses in order to curate, share and soon sell interactive travel guides and planning services.
  Topics: company, using, thatch, creators, seed, round, travel, techcrunch, thatchs, build, app, west, industry, 3m, map.
• Thrasio, the Amazon aggregator, raises $1B in fresh funding at a valuation of up to $10 billion - One of the big leaders in buying up and scaling third-party merchants selling on Amazon and other marketplace platforms is announcing a major round of funding today as it continues to expand its ambitions. Thrasio, the Boston-based startup, has closed an all-equity Series D of over $1 billion — a huge infusion in cash that […]
  Topics: 1b, wider, company, fresh, aggregator, round, funding, thrasio, billion, amazon, raised, techcrunch, million, brands, raises, businesses, valuation.
• Tiger Global backs India’s OfBusiness at $3 billion valuation - OfBusiness, a commerce startup that sells industrial goods and provides small businesses with credit, has doubled its valuation in less than two months to $3 billion, a top executive told TechCrunch. Tiger Global led the six-year-old startup’s $207 million Series F round, and SoftBank and Alpha Wave participated, OfBusiness co-founder and chief executive Asish Mohapatra […]
  Topics: billion, startup, valuation, platform, pay, techcrunch, startups, told, ofbusiness, backs, material, round, raw, tiger, global, indias, using.
• Tiger Global backs Nacelle with $50M for its e-commerce infrastructure - Consumer shift to buying online during the global pandemic — and keeping that habit — continues to boost revenue for makers of e-commerce developer tools.
  Topics: online, million, tech, nacelle, tiger, techcrunch, backs, 50m, round, anderson, shopping, infrastructure, ecommerce, commerce, global, stack.
• Tiger and Falcon look to double down on Indian social commerce startup DealShare - Tiger Global and Falcon Edge Capital are looking to double down on their bets on DealShare, becoming the latest high-profile investors to go all-in on India’s nascent but growing social commerce trend. The two firms, both of which are already an investor in the Jaipur-headquartered startup (AWI, which is managed by Falcon, is an early […]
  Topics: social, round, investors, million, commerce, platform, falcon, look, talks, dealshare, recently, startup, indian, double, tiger, techcrunch.
• Topsort, an auction-based advertising startup, now valued at $110M after seed round - When Regina Ye was in college, she was a Shopify seller and recalls being so fed up with advertising solutions that she spent finals week staying up late to figure out how ads worked on Facebook and Amazon. “It was super complicated,” she told TechCrunch. “I was an early adopter of B2B marketplaces, but advertising […]
  Topics: startup, auctionbased, ads, customers, round, valued, company, user, ye, topsort, technology, early, seed, advertising, marketplaces, techcrunch, 110m.
• Vollebak, which makes ‘clothes for the future,’ is closing its Series A round - If you’ve ever visited the site of the six-year-old, London-based direct-to-consumer clothing company Vollebak, you’ve likely marveled at the exaggerated descriptions of clothing it sells, including a jacket “designed for a world of megastorms, where ‘waterproof’ is not enough,” a hoodie that promises to repel rain, wind, snow and fire; and and an “ice age” […]
  Topics: think, round, closing, thats, jacket, series, space, clothes, clothing, vollebak, future, stuff, really, techcrunch, going, graphene, makes.
• Weee! delivers second big funding round in a year, this time backed by SoftBank - This new monster round comes about a year after another big fundraise of $316 million in Series D financing.
  Topics: delivers, product, big, million, liu, second, techcrunch, company, weee, funding, offer, products, backed, ethnic, round, food, weees, softbank.
• White-label SaaS shipping startup Outvio closes $3M round led by Change Ventures - Outvio offers online stores of any size a post-purchase shipping setup, which seeks to replicate an Amazon-style experience where customers can also return packages.
  Topics: outvio, retailers, fulfillment, stores, experience, startup, led, shipping, ventures, saas, techcrunch, tools, closes, online, solutions, round, whitelabel.
• Woflow structures merchant data so food ordering can be more accurate - Woflow's data structuring platform powers some of our favorite food delivery apps so the next time you ask for "no bun," you actually get what you order.
  Topics: woflow, accurate, million, round, structures, food, nemrow, funding, data, systems, merchant, stores, company, techcrunch, ordering.
• WoodSpoon’s food delivery service cooks up support for home chefs with $14M round - The co-founders reached out to local home chefs and gathered them together in a marketplace where they could share their culture and passion of food with others.
  Topics: 14m, woodspoon, techcrunch, company, chef, service, food, customers, series, saar, round, cooks, woodspoons, delivery, support, chefs.
• Yummy bags $18M as its expands delivery app across Latin America - Yummy plans to have 50 active dark stores in both Peru and Chile by the end of 2022, touting that it will be able to deliver over 2,000 products in less than 15 minutes.
  Topics: seed, users, latin, expands, yummy, techcrunch, delivery, america, zavarce, months, million, 18m, ridesharing, bags, round, app, venezuela.
• Zapp snaps up $200M to supersize its instant grocery play - Zapp, the instant grocery delivery startup that launched in 2020 in London, has picked up a substantial round of funding to go head-to-head with Getir, Gopuff, Jiffy, Deliveroo and the many others hungry for a share of the on-demand convenience market. It has raised $200 million, a Series B round of funding that Zapp said […]
  Topics: gorillas, zapp, delivery, techcrunch, market, 200m, snaps, instant, round, company, grocery, customer, play, raised, supersize.
• Zepto, a 10-minute grocery delivery app in India, raises $100 million - Zepto, a Mumbai-based startup that operates a 10-minute instant grocery delivery service, has more than doubled its valuation to $570 million from $225 million less than two months ago as it expands into newer cities. Y Combinator’s Continuity Fund led the $100 million Series C round in Zepto, the two said Monday. Glade Brook, Nexus, […]
  Topics: palicha, india, zepto, raises, million, execution, months, techcrunch, delivery, instant, app, startup, 10minute, round, grocery.
• clicOH’s shipping technology provides Amazon-like logistics to e-commerce companies in LatAm - The company delivers a package every 20 seconds and services customers of all sizes, from AB inBev and Red Bull to small Shopify merchants.
  Topics: technology, shipping, provides, funding, latin, saravia, round, companies, amazonlike, latam, company, america, techcrunch, clicohs, logistics, ecommerce, novillo.
• mPharma raises $35 million in round joined by Tinder co-founder’s JAM fund, Bharti executive - Ghanaian health tech startup mPharma is building a network of community pharmacies across Africa as it plans to be the go-to primary healthcare service provider for millions of people residing in the region. MPharma plans to grow its community (Mutti) pharmacies across eight markets in Africa to be the first point of care for patients. […]
  Topics: executive, jam, joined, round, pharmacies, health, techcrunch, raises, care, fund, million, services, africa, pharmacy, mpharma, build, tinder, mutti, community.