Moroccan entrepreneur Rania Belkahia has raised €10 million in Series B funding for e-commerce platform Afrimarket, which targets the French-speaking countries of West Africa. (source: Les Echos) The Series B round brings total investment for Afrimarket, which is based in Paris and Abidjan (Ivory Coast), to €13 million euros. The company was established in 2013. […]
Cross-border e-commerce startup Global-e secures $20 million
UK-based e-commerce technology startup Moltin scores $2 million
UK-based marketplace Mihaibao raises $1.6 million
Vivino, the Danish-founded wine community and app maker, today announced a $25 million Series B round led by SCP Neptune International. Prior backers like Balderton Capital, Creandum, SEED Capital and Iconical chipped in for the round as well. The financing round brings Vivino’s total funding to date to $37 million since the company was founded […]
As we inch towards the end of the calendar year, the acquisitions in the European tech space just keep coming, particularly in Germany. At the end of last week, Immobilienscout24 bought classmarkets, and then Zalando picked up nugg.ad while Ströer acquired Statista for €57.2 million. Today, Cimpress, the Dutch company behind Web-to-print company Vistaprint, announced […]
Vinted, a Vilnius, Lithuania-based e-commerce startup that’s been seeing a lot of interest in its peer-to-peer marketplace for secondhand fashion items, has raised $27 million in Series C funding in a round led by international media company Hubert Burda Media. VC firms Accel Partners and Insight Venture Partners also participated in the round, which brings […]