Founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California, Sequoia Capital is a leading venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early to growth stage companies across various sectors, including energy, financial services, healthcare, internet, mobile, and technology. The firm aims to collaborate with a select number of ambitious founders to help them build transformative companies. Sequoia Capital typically invests between $100,000 and $1 million in startups at the seed stage, $1 million to $10 million in early-stage companies, and $10 million to $100 million in growth-stage firms. With a strong preference for being the first investor in profitable and rapidly growing companies, Sequoia seeks to partner with teams that have demonstrated successful products or services. The firm's investment strategy encompasses a global perspective, with significant allocations in markets such as China, India, and Israel.
Claim operates a social shopping application designed to enhance brand discovery for consumers, particularly targeting Gen Z. The platform allows brands to engage directly in customer acquisition through weekly promotional events known as Drops, which showcase new products. Users can earn rewards such as cash-back, exclusive event access, and free merchandise simply by shopping at their favorite brands. Additionally, Claim encourages social interaction by enabling users to share benefits with friends through gifting and trading rewards. This approach aims to create a fun and engaging shopping experience that connects consumers with brands in a meaningful way.
ApnaMart
Series A in 2023
ApnaMart is a shop and online retail store.
Elyn
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Elyn provides a comprehensive platform designed to enhance the e-commerce experience by enabling merchants to convert online visitors into customers and increase revenue from returns. The company offers several modules, including a try-before-you-buy feature that allows customers to test products before purchasing, thereby boosting average order values and conversion rates. Additionally, Elyn includes a return management suite that facilitates the conversion of returns into exchanges. By integrating seamlessly with online stores, Elyn automates the shopping process from payment to returns, utilizing the same logistics channels as standard orders, which streamlines operations for merchants and improves overall customer satisfaction.
Dingdong Maicai
Series D in 2021
Dingdong Maicai is a community-based online retail platform in China that specializes in fresh produce and other daily necessities. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Shanghai, the company leverages technology to enhance its operations, allowing for direct procurement at the point of origin and efficient pre-warehouse distribution. It aims to deliver products to customers' homes in 29 minutes or less, significantly improving the fresh food consumption experience. The service is available in major cities, including Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and Suzhou. Dingdong Maicai operates through its mobile application and mini-programs, generating revenue from the sale of fresh groceries and membership services, positioning itself as one of the fastest-growing on-demand e-commerce companies in China.
MUSINSA
Venture Round in 2021
MUSINSA is a fashion business company that offers personalized curation and storytelling for various brands and products. Its platform helps brands and consumers' lifestyles by designing, creating, enjoying, and interacting with fashion. It also delivers fashion trends and information to help customers engage and interact.
Knocknock.TV
Venture Round in 2020
Knocknock.TV is a live streaming shopping platform that allows retailers to stream live from their store and sell now for free. As for the buyers, its platform allows them to ‘Window shop’ their favorite indie stores live-streaming from San Francisco + gain points when they livechat.
MUSINSA
Venture Round in 2019
MUSINSA is a fashion business company that offers personalized curation and storytelling for various brands and products. Its platform helps brands and consumers' lifestyles by designing, creating, enjoying, and interacting with fashion. It also delivers fashion trends and information to help customers engage and interact.
blinkit
Series F in 2019
Blinkit is a quick-commerce platform specializing in the rapid delivery of groceries, household essentials, and other daily necessities. It provides instant access to a wide range of products, including fresh produce, dairy, snacks, beverages, and home goods. Operating on a dark store model, Blinkit utilizes micro-warehouses located in high-demand urban areas to ensure swift order fulfillment. Following its acquisition by Zomato, the company has expanded its services into additional cities, integrating its offerings with Zomato's food delivery platform to enhance both reach and operational efficiency. Through its online platform, Blinkit connects users with local stores, facilitating the purchase of various items, including groceries, cosmetics, electronics, and more, all delivered directly to consumers' homes.
Coupang
Private Equity Round in 2018
Coupang is an e-commerce company that offers a wide range of products, including apparel, electronics, footwear, food items, furniture, and nutritional supplements. The company's business is primarily divided into two segments: Product Commerce and Developing Offerings. The Product Commerce segment generates the majority of Coupang's revenue and encompasses core retail through owned inventory, marketplace offerings from third-party merchants, and Rocket Fresh, which focuses on fresh grocery delivery. Additionally, Coupang provides advertising products related to these offerings, enhancing its overall service portfolio.
Dia&Co
Series B in 2018
Dia&Co is an e-commerce platform that specializes in selling clothing and accessories for women who wear plus-sized apparel. The company operates a try-on-at-home model, allowing customers to complete an online survey about their fashion preferences. Based on this information, Dia&Co sends a five-item box containing a selection of clothing and accessories. Customers can purchase the items they like while returning the rest at no additional cost. Each box includes a $20 styling fee that can be applied as a credit toward any purchase from that box. Additionally, if a customer decides to keep all the items, they receive a 25 percent discount. Dia&Co aims to meet the diverse style needs of the plus-size community, offering a variety of apparel such as tops, denim, pants, dresses, skirts, and outerwear.
Traveloka
Venture Round in 2017
Traveloka is an online travel aggregator based in Indonesia, primarily focused on helping customers search for and book various travel options. It operates a comprehensive platform that enables users to compare and book flights, hotels, villas, apartments, transportation, tours, holiday packages, and activities. By providing a user-friendly search engine, Traveloka aims to simplify the travel planning process, allowing individuals to find accommodations and tickets that meet their specific needs. The company has expanded its operations to six countries and continues to explore new initiatives to enhance its impact in the travel industry.
Dia&Co
Venture Round in 2016
Dia&Co is an e-commerce platform that specializes in selling clothing and accessories for women who wear plus-sized apparel. The company operates a try-on-at-home model, allowing customers to complete an online survey about their fashion preferences. Based on this information, Dia&Co sends a five-item box containing a selection of clothing and accessories. Customers can purchase the items they like while returning the rest at no additional cost. Each box includes a $20 styling fee that can be applied as a credit toward any purchase from that box. Additionally, if a customer decides to keep all the items, they receive a 25 percent discount. Dia&Co aims to meet the diverse style needs of the plus-size community, offering a variety of apparel such as tops, denim, pants, dresses, skirts, and outerwear.
Pinkoi
Venture Round in 2015
Pinkoi is an online marketplace established in 2009 and launched in 2010, headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. It serves as a social e-commerce platform where designers and artists can sell their unique products, focusing primarily on the Asian market. Pinkoi provides a distinctive environment for original design trading, enabling users to discover and purchase items from creators across various regions, including China, Japan, and the United States. The platform emphasizes the promotion of original and luxury goods, catering to consumers seeking unique gifts and artistic creations.
Beequick
Series C in 2015
Beequick is an on-demand delivery service that offers one-hour delivery of fresh produce and various products from community convenience stores. Based in Beijing, the company has successfully served over 250,000 customers and plans to expand its operations to other major cities across China. Utilizing a mobile application, Beequick enables consumers to conveniently purchase items from local stores, bridging the gap between online shopping and offline retail.
Lugg
Seed Round in 2015
Lugg, Inc., founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, specializes in on-demand delivery and relocation services. The company provides store-to-home delivery of purchased goods, facilitating the transport of items such as furniture and other heavy purchases. In addition to delivery services, Lugg offers relocation assistance for homes, junk removal, and pickup and delivery services for used goods. Through its logistics platform, Lugg connects consumers with local movers and trucks, streamlining the process of moving and delivering items at the push of a button. The company has garnered significant investment from notable firms, emphasizing its commitment to simplifying the moving experience for its customers.
Beequick
Series B in 2015
Beequick is an on-demand delivery service that offers one-hour delivery of fresh produce and various products from community convenience stores. Based in Beijing, the company has successfully served over 250,000 customers and plans to expand its operations to other major cities across China. Utilizing a mobile application, Beequick enables consumers to conveniently purchase items from local stores, bridging the gap between online shopping and offline retail.
Coupang
Venture Round in 2014
Coupang is an e-commerce company that offers a wide range of products, including apparel, electronics, footwear, food items, furniture, and nutritional supplements. The company's business is primarily divided into two segments: Product Commerce and Developing Offerings. The Product Commerce segment generates the majority of Coupang's revenue and encompasses core retail through owned inventory, marketplace offerings from third-party merchants, and Rocket Fresh, which focuses on fresh grocery delivery. Additionally, Coupang provides advertising products related to these offerings, enhancing its overall service portfolio.
Maimaibao
Series B in 2014
MMB is a Chinese business-to-consumer phone shopping centre. The company recieved investment from Far East Holding Group, Sequoia Capital, and an internet gian from 2007-2010 with a total investment that amounts to more than 10 million dollars. Currently, their daily sales has surpassed a million and the annual sales is approximately 0.5 billion with a growth rate of 300%.
Shopular
Series A in 2013
Shopular, Inc. is a mobile application developer based in Redwood City, California, established in 2011. The company focuses on enhancing the shopping experience by providing users with personalized sales notifications and coupons when they are near retail locations. Available on both iPhone and Android devices, Shopular's innovative app has gained recognition for its effectiveness, being the highest-rated application in its category and featured by Time Magazine as one of the best iPhone apps in 2013. As of March 2016, Shopular operates as a subsidiary of Ebates, Inc.
Plateno Hotel Group
Venture Round in 2013
Plateno Hotel Group is a leading hospitality company in China, recognized for its innovative and customer-centric approach. The company manages a diverse portfolio of 14 hotel brands, operating over 3,000 hotels across more than 300 cities. Catering to budget, corporate, and leisure travelers, Plateno provides a wide range of accommodations and services, including entertainment, restaurants, and food facilities. In addition to its hotel operations, the group engages in leasing and converting properties into hotels, as well as managing hotels for franchisees. Plateno also invests in apartment communities and cafés and supports young artists through a non-profit platform. With over 50 million room bookings annually, Plateno Hotel Group remains a significant player in the hospitality industry.
Decolar.com
Venture Round in 2012
Decolar.com is an online travel agency that offers complete travel services, including tickets, tour packages, accommodation, and car rental. Since 1999, more than 2,000,000 people have bought their air tickets through this platform. Decolar.com is present in 21 countries, including Argentina, the U.S., and Spain. It has a partnership of more than 500 airlines and 150,000 hotels worldwide. When purchasing an airline ticket or travel package, Decolar.com’s customers also receive discounts at restaurants and shops in the chosen destination, plus 10% discount on purchases in Duty Free. Decolar.com was launched in 1999 and is based in Guarulhos, Sao Paulo.
Meilishuo
Series C in 2011
Meilishuo.com is a Chinese online platform that caters specifically to young, fashion-conscious women by providing a personalized shopping experience for clothing, cosmetics, and accessories. Launched in November 2009, the website allows users to search for expert advice, explore shops, engage in group buying, and share links to their favorite products. It primarily features listings from third-party e-commerce sites, notably Taobao, China's largest online marketplace. Users are redirected to these external sites to complete their purchases, after which Meilishuo earns a commission. The platform has attracted a significant user base, boasting 150 million registered users and daily traffic of approximately 3.2 million users and 164 million page views. By facilitating these transactions, Meilishuo contributes significantly to the turnover of Taobao, generating around 700 million yuan monthly. Its main competitor in the market is Mogujie.
Basha
Series B in 2011
Basha Web is a gift-based online website. It offers gift services for individuals and businesses. Basha Web has built a service standard for freely chosen gifts. Through gift books, integration platform outsourcing, B2B sales, B2C sales, and business modes, the company provides gift sending, customer relationship maintenance, staff welfare, and many other related services. Basha Web was launched by Beijing Bazaar Science and Technology in 2005.
Meilishuo
Series B in 2011
Meilishuo.com is a Chinese online platform that caters specifically to young, fashion-conscious women by providing a personalized shopping experience for clothing, cosmetics, and accessories. Launched in November 2009, the website allows users to search for expert advice, explore shops, engage in group buying, and share links to their favorite products. It primarily features listings from third-party e-commerce sites, notably Taobao, China's largest online marketplace. Users are redirected to these external sites to complete their purchases, after which Meilishuo earns a commission. The platform has attracted a significant user base, boasting 150 million registered users and daily traffic of approximately 3.2 million users and 164 million page views. By facilitating these transactions, Meilishuo contributes significantly to the turnover of Taobao, generating around 700 million yuan monthly. Its main competitor in the market is Mogujie.
Meilishuo
Series A in 2011
Meilishuo.com is a Chinese online platform that caters specifically to young, fashion-conscious women by providing a personalized shopping experience for clothing, cosmetics, and accessories. Launched in November 2009, the website allows users to search for expert advice, explore shops, engage in group buying, and share links to their favorite products. It primarily features listings from third-party e-commerce sites, notably Taobao, China's largest online marketplace. Users are redirected to these external sites to complete their purchases, after which Meilishuo earns a commission. The platform has attracted a significant user base, boasting 150 million registered users and daily traffic of approximately 3.2 million users and 164 million page views. By facilitating these transactions, Meilishuo contributes significantly to the turnover of Taobao, generating around 700 million yuan monthly. Its main competitor in the market is Mogujie.
Weipinhui
Venture Round in 2010
Weipinhui (formerly Vipshop) is a Chinese online discount retailer for brands. The company offers quality branded products to consumers throughout China at a significant discount from retail prices. Weipinhui has successfully created and proven that there is a third e-commerce model that can provide tremendous scale and profitability. By providing special offers and large discounts on branded products, the company has pioneered the online discount retail model in China. Weipinhui has approximately 4.9 million cumulative customers and partnerships with over 5,800 domestic and international brands. Weipinhui was founded in August 2008. The company raised $50 million in Series B from DCM and Sequoia Capital after securing 20 million in its Series A. On March 23, the company raised USD 72.64 million through its IPO.
OkBuy.com
Series B in 2010
OkBuy.com is a Chinese online retail platform that specializes in certified clothing and footwear. The company offers a diverse range of products, including discount clothing, outdoor gear, sportswear, and lighting products from multiple brands, allowing customers to conveniently shop for various items in one place. OkBuy.com utilizes an innovative business model that merges e-commerce with traditional retailing, supported by advanced capital management and network technologies. The platform emphasizes a direct selling approach and efficient delivery systems, enhancing the shopping experience for its users. By leveraging partnerships both domestically and internationally, OkBuy.com aims to provide a comprehensive and cost-effective shopping solution.
Maimaibao
Venture Round in 2009
MMB is a Chinese business-to-consumer phone shopping centre. The company recieved investment from Far East Holding Group, Sequoia Capital, and an internet gian from 2007-2010 with a total investment that amounts to more than 10 million dollars. Currently, their daily sales has surpassed a million and the annual sales is approximately 0.5 billion with a growth rate of 300%.
MarketLive
Series E in 2008
MarketLive, established in 1995, specializes in eCommerce technology and services designed for fast-growing companies. The company offers an extensive eCommerce suite tailored to the needs of catalogers, retailers, direct marketers, and manufacturers. MarketLive's solutions include software for establishing an online sales presence, managing content, processing orders, and overseeing customer relationships and website activity. The company employs its Intelligent Selling methodology to enhance customer experiences and significantly improve acquisition, conversion, and retention rates. MarketLive supports various prominent eCommerce sites, including brands such as Peruvian Connection, Learning Resources, and Warner Brothers, among others.
LAFASO
Venture Round in 2008
Lefeng is a Chinese large-scale online shopping website for females. It provides solutions related to female fashion. Lefeng provides various kinds of information on fashion news, lifestyles, shopping enjoyment, and more. All presented merchandises are strictly selected by beauty trainers. These products include essential oils, dietary supplements, cosmetics and skincare products, makeup, perfumes, environment-friendly fashion products, beauty books, and more. Lefeng was founded by Lijing in 2008, who is a famous presenter, producer, and the founder of Oriental Popular Media Group.
KAYAK
Series D in 2007
KAYAK helps millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. As one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. KAYAK offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast. In addition, KAYAK also manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including: SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined that together process 6 billion queries across our platforms each year. KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 60 countries and territories. KAYAK was launched in the US in 2004 by a team of industry leaders including Steve Hafner (CEO) a co-founder of Orbitz, Paul English (CTO) a former VP of technology at Intuit, Terrell Jones (Chairman), founder of Travelocity, and Greg Slyngstad (Director), a co-founder of Expedia.
Zappos
Series E in 2005
Zappos is an online retailer specializing in shoes. In addition to shoes they sell handbags, clothing, eyewear, watches and accessories. The company is currently based in Henderson, NV, with a warehouse in Shepherdsville, KY. In addition, Zappos has a small number of brick-and-mortar outlet stores. The name Zappos is derived from the Spanish word zapatos, meaning shoes.
KAYAK
Series B in 2004
KAYAK helps millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. As one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. KAYAK offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast. In addition, KAYAK also manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including: SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined that together process 6 billion queries across our platforms each year. KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 60 countries and territories. KAYAK was launched in the US in 2004 by a team of industry leaders including Steve Hafner (CEO) a co-founder of Orbitz, Paul English (CTO) a former VP of technology at Intuit, Terrell Jones (Chairman), founder of Travelocity, and Greg Slyngstad (Director), a co-founder of Expedia.
Zappos
Series D in 2004
Zappos is an online retailer specializing in shoes. In addition to shoes they sell handbags, clothing, eyewear, watches and accessories. The company is currently based in Henderson, NV, with a warehouse in Shepherdsville, KY. In addition, Zappos has a small number of brick-and-mortar outlet stores. The name Zappos is derived from the Spanish word zapatos, meaning shoes.
MarketLive
Venture Round in 2003
MarketLive, established in 1995, specializes in eCommerce technology and services designed for fast-growing companies. The company offers an extensive eCommerce suite tailored to the needs of catalogers, retailers, direct marketers, and manufacturers. MarketLive's solutions include software for establishing an online sales presence, managing content, processing orders, and overseeing customer relationships and website activity. The company employs its Intelligent Selling methodology to enhance customer experiences and significantly improve acquisition, conversion, and retention rates. MarketLive supports various prominent eCommerce sites, including brands such as Peruvian Connection, Learning Resources, and Warner Brothers, among others.
Vendeo
Series C in 2000
Vendeo is an eCommerce platform that provides small to medium-sized merchants with a comprehensive solution for managing online sales across multiple channels. The company enables merchants to efficiently sell products through various platforms, including their own online stores as well as major marketplaces like Amazon and eBay. Each year, Vendeo supports over 80,000 merchants, facilitating nearly $2 billion in merchandise sales. In addition to its core services, Vendeo operates Dealio, a shopping and coupons site designed for consumers. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with a development office in Romania, Vendeo was acquired by Alibaba.com in 2010, strengthening its position in the eCommerce landscape.
Miadora
Series C in 2000
Miadora operates an online business to consumer marketplace for the purchase of luxury jewelry and other accessories. Its products include handbags, earrings, watches, and rings. The company provides jewelry in collections such as bridal, diamond, pearl, gemstone, and signature. Miadora was founded by Julie Schwartz in 1999 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.
Obongo
Series B in 2000
Obongo provides e-commerce solutions such as tools to remember passwords, compare prices, fill out forms, receive e-shopping rebates, and allow email forwarding. It offers Obongo Companion, a browser assistant that enables shopping for users, and generates shopping carts for websites. Obongo’s web service also allows users to store their passwords, credit card numbers, and shipping addresses in one place. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.
Vendeo
Series B in 1999
Vendeo is an eCommerce platform that provides small to medium-sized merchants with a comprehensive solution for managing online sales across multiple channels. The company enables merchants to efficiently sell products through various platforms, including their own online stores as well as major marketplaces like Amazon and eBay. Each year, Vendeo supports over 80,000 merchants, facilitating nearly $2 billion in merchandise sales. In addition to its core services, Vendeo operates Dealio, a shopping and coupons site designed for consumers. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with a development office in Romania, Vendeo was acquired by Alibaba.com in 2010, strengthening its position in the eCommerce landscape.
Yahoo
Series B in 1995
Yahoo is a media technology company based in New York City that connects users with a wide range of interests, including finance, sports, shopping, gaming, and news. It operates as a comprehensive web portal, offering services such as Yahoo Search, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo News. Additionally, Yahoo provides a platform for businesses to engage in advertising and marketing, leveraging its extensive media reach. The company also includes Yahoo! Store, which offers tools for building and managing e-commerce sites. By combining innovative technologies with diverse content, Yahoo aims to facilitate connections among its users and deliver relevant information and services.
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