Flipkart
Venture Round in 2022
Flipkart is an e-commerce marketplace based in Bengaluru, India, offering over 30 million products across more than 70 categories, including electronics, home appliances, and personal care items. Founded in 2007 by Binny and Sachin Bansal, the platform has grown to serve 75 million registered users and generates over 10 million daily visits. Flipkart efficiently handles approximately 8 million shipments per month, a figure that continues to rise. The company is also the parent of Flipkart Ventures, which invests in early-stage companies. In 2018, Flipkart was acquired by Walmart, further strengthening its position in the competitive e-commerce landscape. With a workforce of around 33,000 employees, Flipkart remains a significant player in the Indian online retail market.
Flipdish is a company that specializes in providing an all-in-one online ordering platform for the food service industry, catering primarily to quick service delivery and takeout restaurants. The platform offers a range of services, including branded ordering apps and websites, web ordering tools, point-of-service integrations, and mobile applications. By utilizing Flipdish, restaurants, cafes, and takeaways can enhance their customer experience and regain control over their customer data and marketing channels. Additionally, the platform supports loyalty programs and marketing services, empowering food businesses to manage their online presence effectively and streamline their operations.
Xiaohongshu
Series E in 2021
Xiaohongshu, founded in 2013 and based in Shanghai, is a lifestyle sharing platform that facilitates the exchange of experiences through text, images, and videos. Initially created to assist overseas travelers with shopping, it has transformed into a vibrant community focused on various lifestyle topics, including cosmetics, fashion, food, travel, entertainment, reading, fitness, and childcare. The platform allows users to post their favorite products, share shopping experiences, and discover global merchandise, particularly in the luxury and fashion sectors. It serves as both a social network and a social e-commerce platform, enabling users to review and purchase products from abroad.
Lokal provides users with hyperlocal information such as daily commodity prices, local jobs, real estate, matrimonial, local business advertorials, and classifieds that would otherwise be scattered across local newspapers. Lokal, which was founded in 2018, aims to strengthen hyperlocal communities by allowing its mostly non-English users to share, interact, and transact in their native language. The app has 10 million downloads and is available in 100+ districts across South India in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Marathi.
Flipkart
Private Equity Round in 2021
Flipkart is an e-commerce marketplace based in Bengaluru, India, offering over 30 million products across more than 70 categories, including electronics, home appliances, and personal care items. Founded in 2007 by Binny and Sachin Bansal, the platform has grown to serve 75 million registered users and generates over 10 million daily visits. Flipkart efficiently handles approximately 8 million shipments per month, a figure that continues to rise. The company is also the parent of Flipkart Ventures, which invests in early-stage companies. In 2018, Flipkart was acquired by Walmart, further strengthening its position in the competitive e-commerce landscape. With a workforce of around 33,000 employees, Flipkart remains a significant player in the Indian online retail market.
HAYDON Black Hole provides synchronized and leading domestic counters of professional skin care, makeup and fragrance products for high-end customers in the Mainland.
Flipkart
Corporate Round in 2020
Flipkart is an e-commerce marketplace based in Bengaluru, India, offering over 30 million products across more than 70 categories, including electronics, home appliances, and personal care items. Founded in 2007 by Binny and Sachin Bansal, the platform has grown to serve 75 million registered users and generates over 10 million daily visits. Flipkart efficiently handles approximately 8 million shipments per month, a figure that continues to rise. The company is also the parent of Flipkart Ventures, which invests in early-stage companies. In 2018, Flipkart was acquired by Walmart, further strengthening its position in the competitive e-commerce landscape. With a workforce of around 33,000 employees, Flipkart remains a significant player in the Indian online retail market.
Farfetch is an online platform established in 2008 that connects buyers and sellers of personal luxury goods. It unites various independent fashion boutiques and offers a diverse range of products, including bags, dresses, shoes, and accessories. The company partners with over 1,000 luxury goods sellers to provide their inventory to nearly one million active customers, charging a commission for each sale. Farfetch operates a modular technology platform designed to enhance the luxury fashion ecosystem, utilizing a proprietary technology stack to support its applications, services, and data. In addition to its digital marketplace, Farfetch also includes Browns stores and the New Guard Group, and it offers solutions that facilitate the e-commerce operations of luxury brands. The company's focus on connecting luxury brands closely with the fashion industry underlines its commitment to the sector.
Vipshop
Venture Round in 2019
Vipshop Holdings Limited is a prominent online discount retailer in China, specializing in offering a wide range of branded products at significant discounts, typically between 10% and 90% off their original prices, through daily flash sales. The company manages various aspects of its operations in-house, including warehousing, retailing, product procurement, software development, and information technology support, while utilizing third-party logistics providers for distribution and shipping. Vipshop sources its branded products primarily through a consignment model, collaborating with over 29,000 global partners as of December 2023. The leadership team includes Eric Ya Shen, who serves as chairman and CEO, holding a substantial portion of voting rights and equity in the company.
Webuy Group
Series C in 2019
Founded in 2017, Webuy/Jingling Group is a social e-commerce company which owns brands including Shaking Baby (甩甩宝宝), Haoyiku (好衣库) and 芝麻云仓. Webuy Group is a community-based e-commerce platform. It enables merchants to share links to sale items in the app to WeChat, China's most popular social media app, where shoppers can directly make their purchases.
Gojek is an app that providing a variety of services from payments, food delivery, transportation, and logistics. The app is used for food ordering, commuting, digital payments, shopping, hyper-local delivery, getting a massage, and other services. It aims to create a positive socio-economic impact on customers, driver-partners, business, and MSMEs. Gojek is backed by investors including Google, Facebook, PayPal, Sequoia Capital, and Tencent Holdings. The company was founded in 2009 in Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia by Kevin Aluwi, Nadiem Makarim, and Michaelangelo Moran.
MINISO is a lifestyle product retailer, offering high-quality household goods, cosmetics, food, and toys at affordable prices.
Webuy Group
Series B in 2018
Founded in 2017, Webuy/Jingling Group is a social e-commerce company which owns brands including Shaking Baby (甩甩宝宝), Haoyiku (好衣库) and 芝麻云仓. Webuy Group is a community-based e-commerce platform. It enables merchants to share links to sale items in the app to WeChat, China's most popular social media app, where shoppers can directly make their purchases.
Xiaohongshu
Series D in 2018
Xiaohongshu, founded in 2013 and based in Shanghai, is a lifestyle sharing platform that facilitates the exchange of experiences through text, images, and videos. Initially created to assist overseas travelers with shopping, it has transformed into a vibrant community focused on various lifestyle topics, including cosmetics, fashion, food, travel, entertainment, reading, fitness, and childcare. The platform allows users to post their favorite products, share shopping experiences, and discover global merchandise, particularly in the luxury and fashion sectors. It serves as both a social network and a social e-commerce platform, enabling users to review and purchase products from abroad.
HuiXiaDan
Corporate Round in 2018
Hui Xia is a mobile phone ordering app for terminal retail stores, which is operated by Beijing Hui Win World Network Technology Co., Ltd. The use of subversion of the traditional mode of operation, the terminal store independent orders. Orders can save the work load of business staff visits, effectively improve the service value and service quality; At the same time, increase customer networks for brands and distributors, improve channel coverage efficiency and market control level.
Gojek is an app that providing a variety of services from payments, food delivery, transportation, and logistics. The app is used for food ordering, commuting, digital payments, shopping, hyper-local delivery, getting a massage, and other services. It aims to create a positive socio-economic impact on customers, driver-partners, business, and MSMEs. Gojek is backed by investors including Google, Facebook, PayPal, Sequoia Capital, and Tencent Holdings. The company was founded in 2009 in Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia by Kevin Aluwi, Nadiem Makarim, and Michaelangelo Moran.
Wanda Commercial Management Group
Funding Round in 2018
Wanda Plaza is a leading global commercial brand providing services that facilitate functions such as social networking, entertainment, catering and retail, and forming independent business districts in surrounding areas, enabling the plazas to be the center of the city. As of the end of 2017, Wanda Commercial operated 235 Wanda Plazas in China, which received 3.19 billion visitors last year. It held 31.51 million square meters of operating commercial property spaces. Wanda Group also owns cultural tourism parks, hotels, cinemas, children’s entertainment and other offline commercial businesses catering to various consumer needs in its other subsidiaries and affiliates.
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.
Yonghui Superstores
Post in 2017
Yonghui Superstores is a China-based supermarket chain that operates regular chain supermarkets, offering a wide range of products. The company specializes in fresh meat, agricultural products, processed foods, daily necessities, clothing, household appliances, electronic products, and imported goods. Its product categories include fresh food, food products, clothing, and processed items, catering to diverse consumer needs.
Flipkart is an e-commerce marketplace based in Bengaluru, India, offering over 30 million products across more than 70 categories, including electronics, home appliances, and personal care items. Founded in 2007 by Binny and Sachin Bansal, the platform has grown to serve 75 million registered users and generates over 10 million daily visits. Flipkart efficiently handles approximately 8 million shipments per month, a figure that continues to rise. The company is also the parent of Flipkart Ventures, which invests in early-stage companies. In 2018, Flipkart was acquired by Walmart, further strengthening its position in the competitive e-commerce landscape. With a workforce of around 33,000 employees, Flipkart remains a significant player in the Indian online retail market.
Xiaohongshu
Series C in 2016
Xiaohongshu, founded in 2013 and based in Shanghai, is a lifestyle sharing platform that facilitates the exchange of experiences through text, images, and videos. Initially created to assist overseas travelers with shopping, it has transformed into a vibrant community focused on various lifestyle topics, including cosmetics, fashion, food, travel, entertainment, reading, fitness, and childcare. The platform allows users to post their favorite products, share shopping experiences, and discover global merchandise, particularly in the luxury and fashion sectors. It serves as both a social network and a social e-commerce platform, enabling users to review and purchase products from abroad.
ibibo Group
Venture Round in 2016
ibiboGroup is an Indian online travel group that owns properties such as Goibibo.com, a B2C online travel aggregator; redBus.in, an online bus ticketing platform; and travelboutique, a B2B online travel platform. In 2010, ibiboGroup organically developed and launched Goibibo.com that enables consumers to buy air tickets, hotels, and bus tickets via both mobile and desktop. It has become a mobile and online travel platform in India for bookings, after sales, payments, and refunds. The combined travel assets of ibiboGroup makes the company one of the largest in terms of volume of transactions. ibiboGroup was founded in 2006 by [Ashish Kashyap](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/ashish-kashyap) and the company also owns a minority stake in Naspers’ global payments business, PayU Global. It is headquartered in Gurgaon, India.
LY.com
Venture Round in 2015
LY.com allows users to search for places of interest at the local and city levels. LY.com pinpoints the right spots within a few clicks. Every place of interest comes with user reviews. If users are satisfied with the reviews, they can purchase tickets directly on the site. The company's goal is to become the leading service provider of leisure travel, making it easier for customers to enjoy travelling.
Maimaibao
Series D in 2015
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%.
Weidian Group
Series C in 2014
Weidian Group is a platform developer that provides e-commerce and social shopping services. The company's platform offers a digital marketplace for WeChat users to shop, allowing businesses to develop SaaS stores and connect with customers. It allows local community stores to sell their products on WeChat/SNS, where vendors may upload product information across many social media channels. It includes functions including product listings, inventory management, payment processing, and customer assistance.
Woqu travelling website (我趣旅行) is an online travel reservation platform, helping users plan a self-help trip. It is a one-stop service for planning individualized overseas trips with inclusive of tours, hotels, tickets, visa, shopping, car rentals, insurance and many other options that a traveler would require. The clients can also decide their own travel routes, and the proceed with the reservations required directly. And now, the business of Woqu.com has covered the American, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Thailand and Europe.
1jiajie APP is a Chinese provider of hourly workers for housekeeping services. It is the first online application that provides housekeeping service appoinments. 1jiajie APP’s clients can call workers who live in their localities for prices that are lower than market prices. The company has established a standard service routine, interviewing every worker and performing reference checks on them and their companies. By scrolling through their profiles on the 1jiajie application, users can choose a workers based on their photographs and detailed profiles. The company adopts a high-security payment system for both online and cash payments.
LY.com allows users to search for places of interest at the local and city levels. LY.com pinpoints the right spots within a few clicks. Every place of interest comes with user reviews. If users are satisfied with the reviews, they can purchase tickets directly on the site. The company's goal is to become the leading service provider of leisure travel, making it easier for customers to enjoy travelling.
LY.com allows users to search for places of interest at the local and city levels. LY.com pinpoints the right spots within a few clicks. Every place of interest comes with user reviews. If users are satisfied with the reviews, they can purchase tickets directly on the site. The company's goal is to become the leading service provider of leisure travel, making it easier for customers to enjoy travelling.