Lazada Secures $100 Million Funding and Launches A New Mobile Shopping Platform
6/27/2013
LAZADA,
Southeast Asia’s largest online shopping mall, today disclosed that Verlinvest,
a Belgian family-owned, consumer-focused investment holding company, has joined
the company as an investor. Existing investors Holtzbrinck Ventures, Kinnevik,
Summit Partners and Tengelmann Group also participated in the financing round
that injected about $100 million of fresh capital into LAZADA’s German holding
company.
“We
are extremely happy to have finalized this investment round shortly after our 1st
year anniversary and to again focus 100% of our attention on what we enjoy
most: providing an amazing shopping experience to our customers” Maximilian
Bittner, CEO of LAZADA, commented. “The interest in joining this round and its
quick closing has exceeded all our expectations” he added. “We are thrilled to
join LAZADA as a partner of Rocket Internet and an investor, the company’s
scale and achievements after only one year of operations are highly impressive.
Given the management’s track record and the region’s macro outlook we are very
confident in LAZADA’s future” Frédéric de Mevius, Chairman of Verlinvest, said.
LAZADA,
which recently surpassed 1 million orders, has always maintained the customer
experience as its main point of focus and invests heavily to provide superior services to its customers.This
focus has resulted in a highly streamlined fulfilment process where currently 90%
of all orders are shipped the same day and 85% of orders in metro areas are
delivered within the next day. However, to further improve delivery time and
increase customer satisfaction the company will use a large part of the freshly
injected capital to optimize its fulfilment infrastructure in the near future.
At
the same time LAZADA announced the launch of its new mobile application that
provides its customers with a fast and intuitive shopping experience using a
smartphone. The application is currently available for Android users and an
iPhone version is soon to come. “We are very excited to launch this mobile
shopping platform that provides additional convenience to our customers
allowing them to shop anywhere at any time” said LAZADA’s CMO Stein Jakob Oeie.
“Mobile commerce is representing more than 10% of eCommerce in the US and we
expect this to develop even faster in Southeast Asia where many users only have
access to the Internet through smartphones” he continued.
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About
LAZADA
LAZADA(www.lazada.co.id, www.lazada.com.my, www.lazada.com.ph, www.lazada.co.th, www.lazada.vn) is Southeast Asia’s fastest growing
online shopping mall, with operations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines,
Thailand and Vietnam. LAZADA is pioneering eCommerce across some of the fastest
growing countries in the world by offering a fast, secure and convenient online
shopping experience with a broad product offering in categories ranging from
consumer electronics to household goods, toys and sports equipment. LAZADA is
always striving to offer its customers the best possible offering – including
multiple payment options, free returns and extensive customer service and
warranty commitments.
About
Verlinvest
Verlinvest (www.verlinvest.com) is a Belgian family-owned,
consumer-focused investment holding company.The company is an active and
flexible long-term investor, and all its shareholders are part of the AB-InBev
control group. Founded in 1995, Verlinvest currently manages around €700m of
assets across multiple geographies.
About
Holtzbrinck Ventures
Holtzbrinck Ventures (www.holtzbrinck-ventures.com) wasfounded in 2000 as
the venture capital arm of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and now
operates as the leading German early stage fund in the fourth generation of
funds. For over a decade Holtzbrinck Ventures has been supporting founders in
developing their Internet businesses. During this time, Holtzbrinck Ventures
has invested in over 100 businesses, among them some of today’s most successful
businesses, such as Groupon, Zalando, Parship, brands4friends, Experteer,
StudiVZ, MyHammer, AdScale, Wooga, eDarling and Gameduell.
About
Kinnevik
Kinnevik (www.kinnevik.se)
was founded in 1936 and thus embodies seventy-five years of entrepreneurship
under the same group of principal owners. Kinnevik's objective is to increase
shareholder value, primarily through net asset value growth. The company's
holdings of growth companies are focused around seven comprehensive business
sectors; Telecom & Services, Online, Media, Micro financing, Paper &
Packaging, Agriculture and Renewable energy. Kinnevik has a long history of
investing in emerging markets which has resulted in a considerable exposure to
consumer sectors in these markets. Kinnevik plays an active role on the Boards
of its holdings.
The Kinnevik's
class A and class B shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm's list for
large cap companies, within the financial and real estate sector. The ticker
codes are KINV A and KINV B.
About
Summit Partners
Summit Partners (www.summitpartners.com)
is a growth equity firm that invests in rapidly growing companies. Founded in
1984, Summit has raised nearly $15 billion in capital and provides equity and
credit for growth, recapitalizations, and management buyouts. Summit has
invested in more than 350 companies globally in the technology, healthcare and
other growth industries. These companies have completed more than 125 public
offerings, and in excess of 130 have been acquired through strategic mergers
and sales. Summit Partners has offices in Boston, Palo Alto, London and Mumbai.
In the United States of America, Summit Partners operates as an
SEC-registered investment advisor. In the United Kingdom, this document is
issued by Summit Partners Limited, a firm authorized and regulated by the
Financial Services Authority. Summit Partners Limited is a limited company
registered in England and Wales with company number 4141197, and its registered
office is at 20–22 Bedford Row, London, WC1R 4JS, UK. This document is intended
solely to provide information regarding Summit Partners’ potential financing
capabilities for prospective portfolio companies.
About
Tengelmann Group
Tengelmann Group (www.tengelmann.de)
is an international operating retail company whose business interests are
spread across a number of different industries. Subsidiaries include OBI, KiK,
Kaiser's Tengelmann, baby-markt.de and Plus Online. TREI Real Estate, as well
as the holding company Tengelmann Ventures, which has been investing in
promising online start-ups for several years, are also part of the corporate
group. The family-owned business was established in 1867 in Mülheim an der Ruhr
and is currently managed in fifth generation. Tengelmann Group is operating
over 4,000 stores in 15 different countries and employing more than 80,000
people. The group’s annual turnover is totalling EUR 10bn.
***** The content of this post is provided as part of the official press release from Lazada Philippines.*****
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