Blue Nile, an online retailer of precious fashion jewellery was acquired by Bain Capital Private Equity, Bow Street and Adama Partners for $520M, including the related transactions, fees and expenses.
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Urban Ladder, an online private label brand of furniture and home decor products raised $15.2M in a Series C funding round from Kalaari Capital, SAIF Partners, Steadview Capital, and Sequoia Capital. Post funding, its shares are priced at $295.4.
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Boohoo.com, an online fashion brand is reportedly bidding $20M for the bankrupt US clothing brand, Nasty Gal. Nasty Gal filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Nov. 2016 after it was unable to secure fresh capital or a buyer.
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Furlenco, an online furniture rental platform raised $30M in a mix of equity and debt funding round. The $15M equity funding round was led by Lightbox Ventures and Axis Capital and the $15M debt funding round was led by HDFC, Axis Bank, Kotak Mahindra, and Intelligrow.
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OfferUp, a peer-to-peer mobile listing platform for household goods raised $119M from Warburg Pincus, GGV Capital, Altimeter Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, T. Rowe Price, Vy Capital, Coatue Management and others.
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Dot & Bo, an SF-based online curator of home furniture and decor products ceased its operations on September 23, 2016. The startup was backed by Trinity Ventures and Oak Investment Partners and was valued close to $60M.
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Letgo & Wallapop, the two heavily funded mobile-first P2P listing platforms merged in the US with $100M in new funding. Letgo was founded by Alec Oxenford (ex-Co-Founder of Olx) in Jan. 2015 and Wallapop acquired a Fabrice Grinda (ex-Co-Founder of Olx) backed startup, Sell it in Nov. 2015.
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Bed Bath & Beyond bought the flash sales website – One Kings Lane in an all cash deal for an amount much less than its previous valuation of $900M.
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With $1.5B raised in 2015, the Second Hand Goods sector continues to see momentum
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Rebagg, an online re-seller marketplace for designer handbags raised $8M in Series A funding led by General Catalyst Partners. MoebelFirst (2016, Cologne), online curated recommerce marketplace for branded and designer furniture.
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Havenly, an interior designer marketplace raised $5.8M led by Binary Capital, Foundry Group and Chicago Ventures, thus bringing its total Series A round of funding to $13.3M. Sayduck (2012, Helsinki, $1.43M) is an augmented reality app for retail of furniture products. Backed by Seedcamp.
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Material Wrld, a designer fashion trade-in service raised $9M in Series B funding from Nissay Capital and Start Today.
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Eight, (previously known as Luna) a smart mattress cover startup raised $6M in an early stage funding round from Y Combinator, Yunqui Partners, Azure Capital, Cota Capital, Comcast Ventures, Vast Ventures and others. Wayfair (2002, Boston, IPO), online retailer of home decor products & furnishings. Went IPO in 2014.
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Mercari, a Japanese P2P mobile marketplace for used goods raised $75 million in Series D funding at a valuation of over $1 billion. 58.com (2005, Beijing, IPO) , Online classified advertisements website serving local merchants and consumers in China. Went IPO in 2013.
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Modsy, a home design solutions provider that uses 3D rendering tools to allow consumers to visualize their interior design ideas raised $8M in Series A funding round from Norwest Venture Partners. Wayfair (2002, Boston, IPO) is online retailer of home decor products & furnishings. Went IPO in 2014.
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5miles raises $30M in Series B funding from Blue Lake Capital, IDG Capital Partners, Morningside Group and SIG-China. Also, Jualo raises an undisclosed amount of Series A funding from NSI Ventures and Alpha JWC Ventures
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ShopClues, an e-commerce managed marketplace expands into the furniture category. Also, Cityfurnish raises an undisclosed amount in seed funding from Citrus Pay co-founder, Jitendra Gupta
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Vinted , Swap, and the Luxury Closet raise funding of over $1M. Also, according to the recent filings, Quikr lost Rs 9 for every Re 1 earned in the last fiscal
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Funding activity has been on a rise with 2015 seeing the most investments at $1.3b. While a majority of the deals still continue to be in the form of early stage rounds, a large portion of the total volume has come through late stage deals.
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  A daily newsletter summarizing recent activity & interesting start-ups globally RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – HOME IMPROVEMENTS Capricoast, a home solutions startup that provides modular kitchen designs has raised $3.5M in Series A funding from Accel Partners and RB Investments. Link ServiceWhale, an online marketplace for home improvement
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A daily newsletter summarizing recent activity & interesting start-ups globally  RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – SECOND HAND GOODS Reverb, an online marketplace for used musical instruments has raised $25M in Series B funding led by Summit Partners. Link Quikr, an online classifieds platform has finalized a stock-cum-cash deal
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A daily newsletter summarizing recent activity & interesting startups globally.   RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – HOME IMPROVEMENTS Rentomojo, a furnishing rental platform raised $2M in Pre-Series A funding from Accel Partners and IDG Ventures India. Link Home24, a Rocket Internet backed furniture marketplace acquired Fashion for Home, an
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A daily newsletter summarizing recent activity & interesting startups globally. RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – SECOND HAND GOODS OfferUp, a smartphone app that connects buyers and sellers of second hand goods announced its funding details; $90M in total received over the years from Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue Management, Tiger
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