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• 5-month-old Indonesian startup Ula raises $10.5 million for its wholesale e-commerce marketplace - Five-month-old Indonesian startup Ula, which aims to help small retailers solve inefficiencies that they face in supply chain, inventory and working capital, said today it has raised $10.5 million in a new financing round to grow its business in the Southeast Asian market. The seed round was led by Sequoia India and Lightspeed India. SMDV, […]
  Topics: need, million, marketplace, team, round, inventory, retail, ecommerce, raises, ula, indonesia, working, wholesale, techcrunch, indonesian, 5monthold, startup, capital.
• A $44M Series B Drop in the bucket for millennial loyalty - Commerce and marketing are radically changing these days. Consumers are increasingly looking for brands they identify with, while at the same time, the cost of acquiring users is increasing year-over-year for marketers. For brands, that math makes marketing complicated: they want to reach the right customers with the most efficient acquisition channels in order to […]
  Topics: strategic, capital, 44m, fung, york, techcrunch, ways, loyalty, drop, millennial, bucket, consumers, million, b, round, weve, series.
• AB Tasty raises $40 million to optimize e-commerce user experience - AB Tasty has raised a new $40 million funding round led by Credit Mutuel Innovation, with existing investors Korelya Capital, Omnes, Partech and XAnge also participating. Overall, the startup has raised $64 million. The startup is focused on improving user experience on e-commerce platforms, travel portals, fashion websites and more. It lets you customize the […]
  Topics: customers, tasty, user, ab, trying, users, optimize, raises, end, round, lets, experience, features, ecommerce, techcrunch, million.
• Aeon invests in US grocery platform Boxed - Japanese retail group Aeon has lead a US$111 million funding round in US bulk grocery delivery business Boxed.
  Topics: platform, grocery, transformationour, invests, national, various, round, funding, group, us111, aeon, boxed, latest.
• Alibaba takes stake in garment sharing platform YCloset - Alibaba has invested an undisclosed figure in Chinese garment-sharing platform YCloset.
  Topics: platform, takes, users, subscription, round, garment, clothes, xianyu, stake, sharing, alibaba, ycloset, million, fundraising, yclosetthe.
• Amazon leads Deliveroo funding round - Amazon is leading another funding round in international food-delivery startup Deliveroo.
  Topics: funding, company, grow, deliveroo, leads, work, team, offer, deliveroos, restaurants, riders, customers, service, amazon, round.
• Amify raises its first venture round on a promise: to boost revenue for third-party sellers on Amazon - Small businesses have a complicated relationship with Amazon . While they fear the company because they have no control over it, Amazon’s platform is also a great way to reach shoppers, particularly small businesses that rise to the top of its results pages. Amify, a nine-year-old, Alexandria, Va.-based company, says it can get them there, […]
  Topics: companies, mcafee, boost, promise, revenue, amify, customers, small, sales, sell, venture, doesnt, amazon, sellers, pay, thirdparty, raises, round.
• Ankorstore raises $29.9 million for its wholesale marketplace - French startup Ankorstore has raised a $29.9 million Series A round (€25 million) with Index Ventures leading the round. Existing investors GFC, Alven and Aglaé are also participating. Ankorstore is building a wholesale marketplace that connects independent shop owners with brands selling household supplies, maple syrup, headbands, bath salts, stationery items and a lot more. […]
  Topics: order, techcrunch, startup, ankorstore, products, raised, round, wholesale, million, marketplace, brands, selling, shop, raises.
• BGF leads $11M round in on-demand merchandise platform Moteefe - Moteefe, the e-commerce platform for on-demand production of merchandise, has raised $11 million in what, according to filings, appears to be part one of a Series B. Leading the round is BGF, with participation from existing investors, including Gresham House Ventures and Force Over Mass Capital. The injection of capital will be used by Moteefe […]
  Topics: platform, 11m, entrepreneurs, sell, bgf, techcrunch, moteefe, leads, customer, round, store, production, supply, products, retailers, merchandise, ondemand.
• BeliMobilGue raises $10M for its used-car sales platform in Indonesia - BeliMobilGue, a used car sales platform in Indonesia, has fueled up with a $10 million Series round for the race to dominate the automotive market in Southeast Asia’s largest economy. The company was started in 2017 as a joint venture between Europe’s Frontier Car Group (FCG) and Intudo Ventures, a VC firm focused on Indonesia. BeliMobilGue said […]
  Topics: round, capital, 10m, tunas, raises, indonesia, monteiro, belimobilgue, sales, venture, platform, toyota, car, million, usedcar.
• Bigblue wants to automate e-commerce fulfillment in Europe - Meet Bigblue, a French startup that just raised a $3.6 million seed round (€3 million) to build an end-to-end fulfillment solution in Europe. If you sell products on your own website and across multiple marketplaces, you can use Bigblue to handle everything that happens after a transaction. Bigblue doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel. Instead, […]
  Topics: customers, startup, wants, round, automate, bigblue, techcrunch, products, ecommerce, logistics, europe, product, improve, fulfillment.
• Birchbox ownership changes hands after beauty business does recap - Beauty-in-a-box brand Birchbox has changed up its ownership structure. The New York-based startup, which has raised almost $90 million in funding from noted venture firms like Accel Partners and First Round Capital, has a new majority owner in hedge fund Viking Global, sources confirm to TechCrunch. First reported by Recode, Birchbox made some changes to its cap table […]
  Topics: ownership, consumers, birchbox, majority, funding, capital, hands, beauty, business, million, changes, startup, does, viking, round, recap.
• Checkout.com raises 206 million euros - Checkout.com, a London-based provider of online payment solutions has raised 230 million dollar (206 million euros). It’s Europe’s largest fintech Series A round ever. It’s the first time the payment solutions provider is taking funding from outside investors. The funding round was led by Insight Partners and DST Global, while… Continue reading
  Topics: euros, payment, services, checkoutcom, round, payments, million, raises, wants, partners, financial, online.
• Checkout.com raises 370 million euros - London fintech company Checkout.com has raised 450 million dollars (370 million euros) in a Series C round. The company is now valuated at over 12 billion euros and is looking to expand its business further abroad. The company, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom, says it’s now the most… Continue reading
  Topics: fintech, euros, raises, checkoutcom, company, million, payments, payment, round, raised, series.
• ClassPass works up $85 million Series D funding - ClassPass today announced the close of an $85 million Series D financing round led by Temasek, the same firm that led the startup’s Series C financing. L Catterton, a private equity firm that has also invested in the likes of Peloton, Equinox, and Pure Barre, also participated in the round. As part of the deal, […]
  Topics: series, million, model, studio, users, company, led, funding, works, d, classpass, lanman, round, fitness.
• Club Factory raises $100M to expand its lifestyle e-commerce platform in India - Club Factory, a Chinese e-commerce platform that sells fashion and beauty items and electronics accessories, has raised $100 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its footprint in India. The new financing round — Series D — was led by Qiming Venture Partners, Bertelsmann, IDG Capital “and  other Fortune 500 companies […]
  Topics: raises, lifestyle, factory, club, sellers, raised, india, expand, million, ecommerce, round, startup, techcrunch, 100m, platform.
• D2C underwear brand TomboyX raises $18 million from the Craftory - TomboyX, a direct to consumer, gender-neutral underwear brand, has today announced the close of an $18 million Series B funding round led by the Craftory. With this deal, Craftory becomes TomboyX’s majority shareholder. TomboyX develops gender-neutral, size-inclusive underwear at a relatively affordable price point. The company started when co-founder Fran Dunaway struggled to find herself […]
  Topics: series, techcrunch, funding, brand, round, craftory, raises, started, underwear, million, tomboyxs, tomboyx, genderneutral, d2c.
• Daily Crunch: A big funding round for Boll & Branch - The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Bedding startup Boll & Branch raises $100M The company sells sustainably sourced sheets, pillows, mattresses and towels. Until now, it had […]
  Topics: previous, startup, company, plane, daily, space, big, round, unicorn, funding, record, wework, boll, really, crunch, branch, techcrunch, vmware.
• Darkstore raises $21 million Series B round - Darkstore, the tech-driven fulfillment solution to enable e-commerce companies to offer same-day delivery, just raised a $21 million Series B round led by EQT Ventures. The deal will bring EQT principal Laura Yao to Darkstore’s board of directors. This Series B round comes less than one year after Darkstore raised a $7.5 million Series A […]
  Topics: team, round, b, series, worked, raises, techcrunch, brands, darkstore, fulfillment, million, yao, raised.
• DealShare raises $21 million to expand its e-commerce platform to 100 Indian cities and towns - DealShare, a startup in India that has built an e-commerce platform for middle and lower-income groups of consumers, said on Tuesday it has raised $21 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its footprint in the world’s second-largest internet market. WestBridge Capital led the Series C round of the three-year-old startup, […]
  Topics: india, million, rao, round, platform, raises, items, ecommerce, towns, techcrunch, expand, cities, startup, today, products, dealshare, indian.
• Delivery startup Paack raises €44 million - Spain-based parcel platform Paack has raised 44 million euros. Practically all of it has been invested by British private equity fund Bregal Milestone, who led the Series C investment round. With the millions of euros, Paack wants to turbocharge its growth and expand its coverage across Europe. Paack is a… Continue reading
  Topics: million, packages, startup, delivery, paack, platform, raised, round, raises, euros.
• DoorDash raises $400M round, now valued at $7.1B - Delivery company DoorDash is announcing that it has raised $400 million in Series F financing. Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal reported that the company was looking to raise $500 million at a valuation of $6 billion or more. In fact, DoorDash now says the funding came at a $7.1 billion valuation. The round […]
  Topics: company, restaurants, xu, 71b, doordash, billion, round, month, million, tested, valued, theres, 400m, raises.
• Flipkart leads $60M investment in logistics startup Shadowfax - Walmart’s Flipkart has backed Indian startup Shadowfax in a new $60 million financing round as the retail giant works to strengthen its logistics network in the nation. Flipkart led the Series D financing round for the four-year-old Bangalore-based startup, Shadowfax co-founder and chief executive Abhishek Bansal told TechCrunch in an interview. Existing investors Eight Roads Ventures, […]
  Topics: startup, bansal, stores, shadowfax, leads, 60m, network, logistics, flipkart, round, india, techcrunch, delivery, investment, million.
• Fresh capital for Vestiaire Collective to fund Asian expansion - Pre-owned luxury fashion retailer Vestiaire Collective has completed a €40 million round of financing led by BPIFrance and new CEO Max Bittner.
  Topics: industry, capital, tech, data, fund, international, fashion, round, fresh, collective, asian, expansion, company, max, vestiaire.
• Fulfilment solution Bigblue raises €3 million - Bigblue, a logistics provider from France, has raised 3.6 million dollars (3 million euros) in a seed round. The startup wants to build an end-to-end fulfilment solution in Europe. Bigblue isn’t a fulfilment company itself, but it works with several ones to handle post-order processes for online stores. The company… Continue reading
  Topics: stock, bigblue, wants, round, retailers, store, million, fulfilment, logistics, online, solution, raises.
• Grocery e-commerce startup Kurly raises US$113 million - Korean grocery delivery service Kurly has closed an upsized Series D round that hit US$113 million.
  Topics: hit, ecommerce, us113, startup, million, infrastructure, weve, raises, round, yearonyear, grocery, service, fulfillment, kurly, york, uses.
• Grove Collaborative, a subscription startup selling ‘household essentials,’ has been quietly raising a lot of moolah - Grove Collaborative, a four-year-old, San Francisco-based startup that sells household, personal care, baby, children’s and pet products, has been busy raising money in 2018, shows two new SEC filings that lists representatives from the company’s earlier investors, including Mayfield, Norwest Venture Partners and MHS Capital, as well as apparent new investor General Atlantic, represented by partner Catherine […]
  Topics: round, moolah, household, essentials, shows, collaborative, startup, quietly, subscription, raising, lot, grove, million, products, raised, money, company, selling.
• Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop raises another $50 million - Actress-turned-entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow is getting more capital to accelerate her startup’s growth. Goop, the lifestyle brand which she founded ten years ago, is announcing a $50 million Series C round from NEA, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Felix Capital. It brings the total outside investment to $82 million. A source close to the situation tells us […]
  Topics: raises, products, company, gwyneth, valuation, goops, paltrows, goop, unusual, water, million, round, postmoney.
• India’s FreshToHome raises $121 million to grow its meat and vegetable e-commerce platform - FreshToHome, an Indian e-commerce startup that sells fresh vegetables, fish, chicken and other kinds of meat, has raised $121 million in a new financing round as the Bangalore-headquartered firm reports accelerated growth spurred by the coronavirus pandemic. The startup, which offers its service in several major Indian cities, including Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, and Hyderabad, […]
  Topics: round, million, techcrunch, freshtohome, meat, startup, series, raised, platform, vegetable, grow, investment, ecommerce, startups, financing, indias, raises, indian.
• Indonesia’s Fabelio raises US$9 million for expansion - Indonesian online furniture retailer Fabelio has raised US$9 million in a Series C funding round led by Taiwanese venture firm AppWorks.
  Topics: expansion, indonesias, times, raises, million, round, market, indonesia, main, furniture, improve, fabelio, funding, us9.
• JUMP Bikes weighing Uber $100m+ acquisition, investment offers - JUMP Bikes, the on-demand biking service that integrates with Uber, has been weighing both acquisition and investment offers. A decision has not yet been reached, but right now possible options include a sale to Uber at a price that exceeds $100 million, or a venture investment round, multiple sources tell TechCrunch. One of the possible […]
  Topics: uber, users, bike, sequoia, ventures, told, 100m, acquisition, recently, round, weighing, jump, investment, bikes, offers.
• Kenyan logistics startup Sendy raises $20M round backed by Toyota - Africa’s logistics startup space has gained another multi-million-dollar round with global backing.
  Topics: logistics, million, series, ondemand, kenyan, backed, 20m, toyota, sendy, raises, round, startup.
• Klarna CEO says ‘maybe’ of taking public Europe’s most valuable fintech next year (but he’s not ruling out another round, either) - Yesterday at TechCrunch Berlin, we sat down with Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the co-founder and CEO of Klarna, a 15-year-old company that’s currently the most highly valued privately held fintech in Europe, following a $460 million investment that pegged the company’s worth at $5.5 billion back in August. (Asked yesterday to confirm that the company has raised […]
  Topics: pay, think, industry, klarna, ruling, maybe, going, thats, whats, valuable, techcrunch, hes, fintech, taking, youre, really, public, round, credit.
• Korean grocery startup Kurly raises $150M - Kurly, a startup that operates a grocery delivery service in Korea, has secured $150 million in a new financing round months after reports claimed that the firm might be acquired soon. Sequoia Capital, Hillhouse Capital and DST Global invested in the Korean startup’s Series E financing round, which according to news outlet Korean Investors, valued […]
  Topics: financing, series, korean, million, kurly, raises, techcrunch, grocery, raised, korea, startup, round, 150m, reports, valued.
• Kurly, a grocery e-commerce startup in Korea, closes upsized $113M Series D round - Kurly, a startup that operates a grocery delivery service in Korea, said today that it has closed an upsized Series D round that reached a total of $113 million. The company announced the round in April when it was $88 million, led by investors that include Sequoia China; however, it has now increased by $25 […]
  Topics: kim, d, coupang, million, produce, grocery, kurly, round, techcrunch, startup, thats, service, market, series, ecommerce, upsized, korea.
• Licious raises $30M to grow its meat and seafood e-commerce platform in India - Licious, a Bangalore-based startup that sells fresh meat and seafood online, has secured $30 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its footprint in the nation. The new financing round, dubbed Series E, for the four-year-old startup was led by Singapore-based Vertex Growth Fund, it said Monday. Existing investors 3one4 Capital, […]
  Topics: india, seafood, meat, raises, ecommerce, 30m, million, techcrunch, industry, round, vertex, grow, licious, platform, startup, cities.
• Lidya Raises $6.9 Million in a Series A Round Led by Omidyar Network - Lidya, the digital financial services platform focused on improving access to credit for micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Africa, announced in late May that it has raised $6.9 million in a Series A investment round, one of the largest in Nigerian tech history.
  Topics: network, kehinde, series, million, lidya, omidyar, tunde, raises, investment, investors, round, led.
• Lidya Raises $6.9 Million in a Series A Round Led by Omidyar Network - Lidya, the digital financial services platform focused on improving access to credit for micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Africa, announced in late May that it has raised $6.9 million in a Series A investment round, one of the largest in Nigerian tech history.
  Topics: investors, tunde, network, investment, led, round, raises, omidyar, kehinde, series, million, lidya.
• MAX.ng raises $7M round backed by Yamaha - Nigerian motorcycle transit startup MAX.ng has raised a $7 million funding round led by Novastar Ventures, with participation from Japanese manufacturer Yamaha.
  Topics: startup, funding, million, including, yamaha, tuk, 7m, maxng, raises, motorcycle, njoya, backed, round.
• Magento Innovations Lab Round 2 Showcase - Magento Innovations Lab round two selections are fantastic examples of cutting-edge development. Here's a closer look at the innovations and the awesome new opportunities they bring to digital commerce
  Topics: magento, submitting, privacy, showcase, withdraw, innovations, visiting, subject, website, lab, understand, preference, policy, round.
• Magento Innovations Lab Round 3 Showcase - The latest cutting-edge innovations from the Magento Community
  Topics: showcase, shopping, online, magento, product, voice, reality, mobile, phoenix, lab, innovations, round.
• Magento Innovations Lab Round 4 Showcase - We launched the Magento Innovations Lab to spotlight the exceptional, bleeding-edge work that the Magento Community is doing. From merchandising to customer service to payments (and more), these innovations are truly creating exceptional customer experiences for Magento merchants. Please join us in a round of applause for the newest additions to the program—the round four selections!
  Topics: showcase, used, robot, round, lab, product, magento, testing, innovations, extension, parts.
• Magento Innovations Lab Round Five & Sneaks are Coming to MagentoLive Europe 2019 - A select number of innovations from this round will have the opportunity to present their solution LIVE on the keynote stage
  Topics: innovations, magentolive, magento, europe, present, lab, sneaks, live, round, coming.
• Magento Innovations Lab Round Four & Announcing Sneaks at Imagine 2019 - We’ve got some pretty amazing twists for this round. 
  Topics: live, lab, imagine, present, round, announcing, sneaks, selected, magento, las, innovations.
• ManoMano raises $139 million for its home improvement e-commerce platform - French startup ManoMano is raising another mega round of funding. The company operates an e-commerce website for DIY, home improvement and gardening products. This time, ManoMano is raising $139 million (€125 million), with Temasek leading the round. General Atlantic, Eurazeo, Piton Capital, Bpifrance and Kismet Holdings are also participating. The company announced another significant funding […]
  Topics: ecommerce, sales, raising, improvement, million, round, techcrunch, funding, manomano, service, raised, platform, company, raises.
• Mirakl raises $70 million to manage the marketplace of your e-commerce website - French startup Mirakl raised a $70 million funding round. Bain Capital is leading the round, with existing investors 83North, Felix Capital and Elaia Partners also participating. If you’ve bought a few products from a third-party seller on an e-commerce website that isn’t Amazon or Alibaba, chances are you’ve used Mirakl in the past. The company […]
  Topics: website, marketplaces, million, manage, raises, round, marketplace, sellers, ecommerce, thirdparty, startup, company, mirakl, product.
• Missfresh seeking US$500 million in new funding round - Chinese grocery-delivery startup Missfresh is seeking up to US$500 million in new funding to help it continue to trade .
  Topics: users, services, delivery, warehouses, million, valuation, company, round, funding, seeking, missfresh, us500.
• Mister Spex raises 65 million euros - Online optician Mister Spex has raised over 65 million euros in an equity round led by the Büll Family Office. With the fresh funding, the German company wants to accelerate its international growth and expand its retail network. Mister Spex already has 11 own stores across Germany, but the online… Continue reading
  Topics: retail, christmas, spex, online, network, euros, store, round, conversions, stores, million, mister, raises.
• Opendoor raises $300M on a $3.8B valuation for its home marketplace - Last month, we reported that Opendoor — the startup that is taking on the real estate industry with its own platform for buying up homes and selling them on to interested buyers — filed to raise $200 million on a $3.7 billion valuation. Now, we can confirm that the round has closed, and it has […]
  Topics: 300m, selling, buying, techcrunch, company, marketplace, round, pricing, 38b, opendoor, ventures, markets, raises, work, valuation.
• Otrium raises $26 million to sell end-of-season fashion items - Otrium has raised a $26 million Series B funding round (€24 million), with Eight Roads Ventures leading the round. Existing investors Index Ventures and Hans Veldhuizen also participated. Otrium works with clothing brands to help them sell items when they reach the end-of-season status. Due to fast fashion, you have to regularly clear some space […]
  Topics: sell, fashion, items, round, million, raises, brands, inventory, ventures, otrium, endofseason, techcrunch.
• Parabola no-code platform raises $8M Series A as it focuses on e-commerce - Many workers today are still stuck doing a bushel of manual tasks, copying and pasting data into spreadsheets, sending out the same emails every morning and generally lacking any kind of automation because they lack coding skills. Parabola wants to change that with a simple drag and drop workflow setup, and today the startup announced […]
  Topics: techcrunch, series, platform, bring, think, company, parabola, 8m, nocode, round, focuses, increase, raises, users, right, yaseen, ecommerce.
• Payment card startup Marqeta confirms $260M round at close to $2B valuation - Startups that are disrupting and unlocking the lucrative world of financial services continue to unlock big funding rounds for themselves. Today, Marqeta — which helps third parties like Square, Affirm, DoorDash, Kabbage and Instacart build and offer card services to their customers — announced that it has raised a Series E of $260 million led […]
  Topics: payment, marqeta, services, cards, opportunity, startup, confirms, company, gardner, close, growth, card, round, 2b, valuation, growing, techcrunch, transactions.
• Pioneering retailer Studs takes the pain points out of piercing - Ear-piercing retailer Studs has won private-equity funding and opened its first physical store after launching online in New York.
  Topics: jewellery, funding, takes, retail, points, pain, traditional, earpiercing, healthy, retailer, round, online, piercing, studs, pioneering.
• Polish startup Packhelp raises 8.8 million euros - Packhelp, a startup from Poland that allows users to design their packaging, has raised 8.8 million euros in a Series A round. White Star Capital led the investment, while existing investors participated. With the money, Packhelp wants to boost its growth in Europe. The online package customization platform launched in… Continue reading
  Topics: star, startup, million, euros, wants, capital, track, packaging, omnichannel, packhelp, white, round, raises, polish.
• Portuguese marketplace Bizay raises €32 million - Bizay, a marketplace for customized products, has raised 32 million euros in a Series C round. The round was led by the European Investment Bank and Indico, with support from Iberis Capital and existing investors. Bizay is an online platform from Portugal that’s aimed at small-to-medium sized businesses. It allows… Continue reading
  Topics: million, raised, round, portuguese, supply, euros, orders, marketplace, raises, products, bizay, smbs, customized.
• Print-on-demand platform Moteefe raises €4.5 million - Moteefe, a Dutch platform for on-demand production of merchandise, has raised 5 million dollars (4.54 million euros) in a Series A round led by Gresham House and Force Over Mass Capital. The money will be used for further expansion across the globe, launching new products for large retailers and scaling… Continue reading
  Topics: euros, platform, round, total, merchandise, service, retailers, raised, moteefe, raises, million, printondemand.
• Print-on-demand platform Moteefe raises €9.3 million - Moteefe, a Dutch platform for on-demand production of merchandise, has successfully completed an 11 million dollar (9.3 million euros) funding round. It was led by new investor BGF, with participation from existing investors. The round follows a Series A fundraise announced earlier this year. Last February, Moteefe announced it raised… Continue reading
  Topics: platform, growth, euros, printondemand, sizes, million, raises, moteefe, users, round, production, retailers.
• Prisync raises €1 million - Prisync, an ecommerce pricing platform from Turkey, has raised 1.1 million dollars (985.700 euros) in a seed round that was led by Istanbul-based venture capital investment company Collective Spark. With the money, Prisync wants to further develop its product and grow the customer base. Aside from Collective Spark, ESOR Investments… Continue reading
  Topics: round, prisync, solution, pricing, magento, ecommerce, million, istanbulbased, spark, wants, investments, raises.
• SellerX raises $118M to buy up and grow Amazon marketplace businesses - As Amazon’s Marketplace continues to grow and mature, a new opportunity has emerged in the world of e-commerce for a new breed of startups to consolidate the most promising of the smaller businesses that sell via Amazon’s platform, and build out their own economies of scale within that ecosystem. In the latest development, SellerX — […]
  Topics: raises, 118m, opportunity, grow, buy, goods, sellerx, million, marketplace, businesses, round, smaller, products, selling, amazon, techcrunch.
• Sequoia leads $10M round for home improvement negotiator Setter - You probably don’t know how much it should cost to get your home’s windows washed, yard landscaped or countertops replaced. But Setter does. The startup pairs you with a home improvement concierge familiar with all the vendors, prices and common screwups that plague these jobs. Setter finds the best contractors across handiwork, plumbing, electrical, carpentry […]
  Topics: negotiator, sequoia, laliberté, improvement, setter, price, round, homeowners, contractors, steckel, startup, leads, 10m, million, concierge.
• Shoes of Prey presses pause to select a business sale or pivot - Shoes of Prey, a Khosla Ventures-backed shoe retailer whose website let women customize footwear purchases by selecting the color and material of the sandals or pumps they wanted to order as well as the size, has announced it’s stopped taking orders after almost ten years trading. The management team will now decide whether to sell […]
  Topics: select, sale, shoes, business, website, pause, today, presses, weve, women, pivot, round, orders, prey, writes.
• Small business payments and marketing startup Fivestars raises $52.5M - It’s a difficult time for small businesses — to put it mildly. And Fivestars CEO Victor Ho said that many of the big digital platforms aren’t really helping. Ho argued that those platforms (whether they offer delivery services, user reviews or marketing tools) all have the same underlying model: “They seek to take over a small business’ customer […]
  Topics: businesses, million, techcrunch, raises, marketing, 525m, small, payments, network, funding, customers, pay, round, business, fivestars, pandemic, startup.
• SoftBank Vision Fund invests $275M in India’s Lenskart - Lenskart, an omni-channel retailer in India that sells eyewear products, said on Friday that it has raised $275 million in a new financing round from SoftBank Vision Fund as it looks to expand its business in the nation. As part of the new financing round — dubbed Series G — some of the nine-year-old startup’s […]
  Topics: softbank, lenskart, startup, round, vision, invests, million, users, stores, indias, fund, 275m, india, technology, techcrunch.
• Sources: Clutter is raising $200-250M led by SoftBank for on-demand storage and moving - Marie Kondo’s rise as a cultural icon shows there’s big business to be had in sorting out a mess. And startups are also hoping to get in on the action. TechCrunch has learned that Clutter, a storage-on-demand service that packs up, takes away, stores and returns your possessions at the click of an app, is raising […]
  Topics: business, round, million, storage, clutter, startups, raising, services, softbank, ondemand, possessions, moving, sources, led, 200250m.
• Startup Letsell has more users than eBay Italia - Letsell, an ecommerce startup from Turin, has overtaken eBay Italia when it comes to the number of unique users and registered sellers. The startup, founded in September 2017, currently has as an online network of over 40,000 Italian retailers. Letsell is an online ecommerce platform that allows users to create… Continue reading
  Topics: online, registered, startup, ecommerce, italia, ebay, letsell, international, users, round, unique.
• The StockX megaround smells like pre-IPO money - An IPO? A shoe-reselling marketplace? Sure! At the numbers we know about it, why not?
  Topics: gross, preipo, volume, round, money, company, stockx, took, million, understand, merchandise, megaround, growth, smells, techcrunch.
• Travel activity platform GetYourGuide is raising a big round, says €500M report is ‘inaccurate’ - As we head into the summer travel season, GetYourGuide, which lets people search for and book tours and other experiences in their destinations of choice from a catalog of some 35,000 activities, is raising a big round of funding, which we understand is not get closed but in the works. German blog Deutsche Startups this weekend reported that […]
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• Vestiaire Collective raises $64.2 million for its second-hand fashion platform - Vestiaire Collective just closed another big round of funding in the middle of an economic crisis — the round closed in early April. The startup raised $64.2 million (€59 million) and the company has raised more than €209 million in total, according to Crunchbase. Vestiaire Collective operates a marketplace of pre-owned fashion items. Users can […]
  Topics: items, collective, shipping, round, working, raised, secondhand, startup, vestiaire, platform, techcrunch, raises, company, million, fashion.
• Warby Parker, valued at $3 billion, raises $245 million in funding - Warby Parker, the optical e-commerce giant, has today announced the close of a $245 million funding round from D1 Capital Partners, Durable Capital Partners, T. Rowe Price and Baillie Gifford. A source familiar with the company’s finances confirmed to TechCrunch that this brings Warby Parker’s valuation to $3 billion. The fresh $245 million comes as […]
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• Wholesale marketplace Ankorstore raises €25 million - Ankorstore, a wholesale marketplace from France, has raised 29.9 million dollars (25 million euros) in a Series A round. Index Ventures led the round, while existing investors GFC, Alven and Aglaé participated. At the moment, Ankorstore is live in eight countries across Europe. It started in France last year, but… Continue reading
  Topics: order, ankorstore, round, wholesale, france, million, marketplace, retailers, brands, shop, independent, raises.
• WorldRemit raises $175M at $900M+ valuation to help users send money to contacts in emerging markets - The value of remittances globally continues to rise, and today a startup that has built a business targeting money transfers into emerging markets has raised a large round of growth funding to capitalize on that. WorldRemit, the London startup that has focused on enabling competitively-priced, quick money transfers from migrant workers and immigrants living in […]
  Topics: countries, techcrunch, emerging, worldremit, million, send, help, payments, money, raises, company, markets, round, users, remittances, valuation, business.
• Zilingo raises $54 million in third funding round - Singapore-based lifestyle marketplace Zilingo has raised US$54 million in series-C funding, taking its total capital raised to $82 million.
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• Zilingo raises fresh funding - Online marketplace Zilingo has raised US$226 million in its recent Series D funding.
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