Tagged: online commerce

February 13, 2021 @ 2:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Thrasio, a company that acquires and then aims to quickly grow third-party sellers on Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has finalized $750 million in new funding, raising the firm’s valuation to around $3 billion to $4 billion. The investment round was led by current investors Advent and… Read More

January 27, 2021 @ 10:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

It’s not easy to enter the highly competitive space of financial “super apps.” Companies or businesses usually spend a long time acquiring the appropriate licenses and developing relevant products and services that can address the strict requirements of regulators. Although these time-consuming processes can lead… Read More

January 26, 2020 @ 7:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tokopedia, an Indonesia-based e-commerce marketplace, is reportedly in the final stages of closing an investment round valued at around $1.5 billion from Japan’s Softbank, China’s Alibaba Group and Singapore-based Temasek. The Tokopedia marketplace, which is notably the largest of its kind in Indonesia, is now… Read More