TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Wonder Brands , an acquirer of e-commerce brands in Latin America, announced today the closing of $15.5 In 2021, the e-commerce roll-up, or aggregator, scene was in full force. As a consequence, Wonder Brands stood out due to its strong brand development capabilities in the rapidly growing Latin American e-commerce market,” he said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Merama, a five-month old e-commerce startup focused on Latin America, announced today that it has raised $60 million in seed and Series A funding and $100 million in debt. The 42-person team is made up of e-commerce leaders from companies such as Amazon, Mercado Libre and Facebook, among others. billion in 2023.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

Three years after stepping down as GoFundMe’s chairman and CEO , Rob Solomon is returning to the industry he calls his “first love,” digital commerce , as co-founder and CEO of Kite , a commerce company focused on investing in, acquiring and operating high-potential, digital-first consumer product brands.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

When it comes to investment in e-commerce aggregators in Latin America lately, when it rains, it pours. It also comes a day after fellow LatAm e-commerce aggregator Quinio announced $20 million in initial funding to acquire some 30 companies. Armed with $160M in funding, LatAm’s Merama enters the e-commerce land grab.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Chamber of Commerce has advocated in Washington pro-business policies for over 100 years. Chamber of Commerce. The selected 100, segmented into 10 awardees in 10 categories, showcase America’s diverse small business sector from microbreweries to fisheries to healthcare startups. Chambers’ upcoming Small Business Forum The U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

As a global financial center, one could argue that Singapore’s startup ecosystem is in a category of its own when compared to its neighbors. Startups tend to launch in the Greater Jakarta area before expanding into other Tier 1 cities like Bandung and Surabaya but many are eyeing smaller cities, especially fintech and e-commerce startups.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Global investment group Eurazeo invested $53 million in Pangaea Holdings for a minority investment in the Los Angeles e-commerce company rooted in creating premium men’s personal care brands. Pangaea, to date, has been a brand incubator, but post the Series B will expand to be a vertically integrated e-commerce platform for other brands.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

With seven weeks left in holiday shopping, e-commerce platform Curated aims to help you find the perfect pair of skis or golf clubs and is attracting additional capital to expand its offerings. US e-commerce on track for its first $1 trillion year by 2022, due to lasting pandemic impacts. With the U.S. With the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Reliance Retail has led a $240 million funding round in Google-backed hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo as the largest Indian retail chain expands to the instant commerce space, a category that has made inroads in the South Asian market in recent quarters. Reliance Retail is investing $200 million in the round for a 25.8%

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 2, 2023

Register Multi-channel e-commerce aggregator Una Brands targets to further develop its platform after raising $30 million in its pre-Series C funding round. The startup also plans to continue with its acquisition of high-quality e-commerce brands within the Home & Living, Mom & Baby and Beauty & Personal Care categories.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Unybrands is the latest e-commerce aggregator to pick up a significant investment, this time closing $300 million in growth capital from Crayhill Capital Management. The Miami-based company, which created a platform for e-commerce businesses looking to scale their operations on and off Amazon, was founded in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

China’s e-commerce and industrial ecosystem is as different from the Western world as its culture. China is also home to one of the world’s largest e-commerce and tech ecosystems. More posts by this contributor. Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years. Other investors noticed as well.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Founded by Nitin Agarwal , formerly of Edelweiss Financial, and Supam Maheshwari , a founder of FirstCry, GlobalBees acquires and partners with digitally native brands across categories such as beauty, personal care, home and kitchen, food and nutrition, and sports and lifestyle with a revenue rate of $1 million to $20 million.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

The number of startups acquiring e-commerce businesses, especially those operating on Amazon, to grow and scale is increasing as more people than ever are shopping online. Then, its multichannel approaches aimed at positioning the brands for “long-term category leadership.” So, this is not a winner-takes-all market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

“Apparel is a core category for us,” said Davis, but he also said he believes that the model can be applied to improve the unit economics of selling online to other categories, like cookware. ” Where is the e-commerce app ecosystem headed in 2021? ” Where is the e-commerce app ecosystem headed in 2021?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

The models of these B2B companies mirror their retail e-commerce counterparts such as Wasoko and TradeDepot, as they use tech-enabled solutions to digitize medicine distribution to underserved pharmacies, drug shops, clinics, and hospitals. Companies like Wasoko and other companies in B2B e commerce involved in FMCG are raising larger sums.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Now it is paving the way to foray into the wealth management category. The American e-commerce giant has backed Bangalore-based startup Smallcase in a $40 million Series C financing round. The e-commerce firm, which has deployed over $6.5 Amazon has entered the financial services and insurance markets of India in recent years.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

And in the traditional world of B2B commerce, which is dominated by trade shows and sales reps, Faire and Ankorstore helped fuel the rise of enablers Proton.ai Again and again, we see these call-and-response patterns of disruptive innovation across supply chain categories. and Enable. The result?

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Drawing from their global base of Sellers, the company has set up 10 categories featuring 50 businesses that the public can vote on through October 24 at 1 am PDT. The Square 50 features 50 businesses across 10 categories are as follows: The Inspiring Innovators: Businesses that diversified operations and built resiliency for the long term.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The crisis has shaken everything up at breakneck speed, from the shifting patterns in commerce to changes in consumer behavior, and with it, some amazing opportunities are being born. The way customers shop is changing, as well, with a drastic dependence on e-commerce. Take, for example, outdoor gear.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The company, headquartered in France, has developed a SaaS-based visual e-merchandising platform with tools for creating 3D images for e-commerce. Based on nfinite’s performance in the past year, this is an area ripe for both e-commerce and venture capital investors. Europe and Asia so we become the standard,” he added.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

E-commerce companies are data-driven, but typically only have their own historical data to go by, Yarden Shaked told TechCrunch. This is a new category of data analytics that helps users understand their own performance as it compares to direct competitors, Yarden Shaked added. Image Credits: Varos.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Evermos is an Indonesian social commerce startup with two goals: to let people earn extra income by opening online stores without spending capital and to help small brands grow into household names. Super, an Indonesian hyperlocal social commerce startup, raises $28M led by SoftBank Ventures Asia. Image Credits: Evermos.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

But 90% of its business today surrounds the smartphone category, explained Mandeep Manocha, founder and chief executive of Cashify, in an interview with TechCrunch. A few years ago, I wrote about the struggle e-commerce firms face globally in handling returned items. If you walk into an Apple store today, they use our platform.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

Instead, Love launches first as a wellness marketplace that features an initial 200 curated products, like supplements, health testing kits and essential oils, among categories including reducing stress and gut health. New products and categories will be added in stages and will also be accompanied by educational content, Breslow said.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 3, 2023

The startup plans to use the funds to accelerate creator acquisition, expand into more categories, and grow its team and product. The platform aims to support 100,000 creators by 2025, tapping into India’s $100B commerce market. Hypd plans to use the recent funding to facilitate growth in these sectors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Vietnam has one of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets in Southeast Asia, but many major platforms still focus on large cities. Social commerce company Mio is taking advantage of that gap by building a reseller network and logistics infrastructure that can offer next-day delivery to tier 2 and 3 cities.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

ReCharge , a provider of subscription management software for e-commerce, announced today that it has raised $227 million in a Series B growth round at a $2.1 Specifically, ReCharge’s cloud-based software is designed to give e-commerce merchants a way to offer and manage subscriptions for physical products. billion valuation. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Amod Malviya, co-founder of Udaan, said in a statement that the coronavirus pandemic, which prompted New Delhi to order a nationwide lockdown and put restrictions on e-commerce firms , underscored the significance of small businesses and mom-and-pop shops (popularly known as kiranas) in the country.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

And Moore claimed the platform three to nine times the sales an author would see on other e-commerce sites. ” Why e-commerce startups aren’t raising more funding during this historic boom. ” Why e-commerce startups aren’t raising more funding during this historic boom.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

CarDekho, an Indian search and e-commerce platform for new and used cars , has become the latest startup in the world’s second-largest market to reach the unicorn status. Penetration of e-commerce in automobiles is low compared to other categories. Auto e-commerce generally has low penetration globally, with India and U.S.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

. “The grocery market is undergoing fundamental change and the shift to e-commerce and higher quality products and services is accelerating,” Van Arsdale said in a statement. “Good Eggs is experiencing rapid growth with strong unit economics and is well-positioned to become a category-defining leader.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

E-commerce has undoubtedly seen a huge boost in growth in the last year and a half of COVID-19 living, with people turning to the web and apps to shop for essentials and not-so-essentials to keep their social distance, and using delivery services to receive their goods rather than picking things up in person.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

In India, Zepto is among the earliest startups attempting to prove the quick commerce model, a category that has taken off in several markets, including North America and Europe. In a report earlier this year, the firm’s analysts reported that India is leading other global markets in the adoption of quick commerce.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

After taking some exploratory trips to China and India, she realized that the first steps to access seemed to always be people buying things online, so she began looking at how to make e-commerce more accessible to the 92% of Latin Americans who were unable to access online shopping.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Product returns remain a headache for many e-commerce companies. US e-commerce on track for its first $1 trillion year by 2022, due to lasting pandemic impacts. Seel sits at the intersection between fintech and e-commerce, and both markets are growing rapidly with strong secular trends,” Peng said. Image Credits: Seel.

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