Ukrainian fund TA Venture
The founders are entrepreneurs from Ukraine, located in Luxembourg. It supports both foreign and Russian projects. The sums it allocates are impressive: $5 million in 2013 to launch the Ukrainian online trading platform Topmall (clothing trade). Then — money for another Ukrainian startup called Pufetto.com (sale of sofas and armchairs). Who else is on the list of TA Venture's clients from the e-commerce sphere? Online store AdoreMe (USA, lingerie sales), web market Auctionata (Germany, antiques).
Rocket Internet Venture Fund
Created in Germany, acts a hungary email list both an investor and an accelerator. More interested in the e-commerce sphere, in addition, it borrows successful business models from the American market. The large Russian fashion retailer Lamoda is from there. In 2010, the fund invested $3 million in this project (at the same time, the share of the Munich fund HV Holtzbrinck Ventures was $10 million).
The Lamoda platform has now become a member of the international Global Fashion Group (GFG), which currently includes five of the world's largest retailers: Lamoda (Russia), Jabong (India), Dafiti (Latin America), Namshi (Middle East) and Zalora (Australia-Asia). The group's expansion will be expanded by investing $166 million from Rocket Internet and the Kinnevik fund (Sweden). This was announced by GFG.
Rocket Internet became an investor for the online furniture store Mebelrama, allocating $6 million for its development in 2011 and $10 million in 2012. The fund is interested in supporting the e-commerce sector. Its clients include the FabFurnish platform (India, furniture sales), the large web retailer Jumia (Nigeria), the Lazada store (Singapore, electronics sales) and others.
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Ventech Investment Fund
Location — France. Invested $3 million in the online trading platform Trends Brands. Before that, there were ru-Net and Kite Ventures (Russia). Ventech's portfolio includes the Mamsy website (Russia, children's goods), as well as a wide range of clients from the e-commerce sector. Among them are the AdoreMe web platform (USA, lingerie sales), the 21 Diamonds retailer (Germany, jewelry), the Jumei cosmetics store (China), and many others.
Intel Capital, a division of Intel (USA)
6 foreign investment funds
In Russia, a special division has been operating since 2003. The fund has become an investor for three of the largest Russian online stores. These are Ozon, KupiVIP (shopping club) and Sapato (shoe sales).
Investment fund Kinnevik
Location — Sweden. In Russia, the fund became an investor for the online store Sapato in 2011 (Direct Group, Intel Capital and e.ventures also invested in the project). Then Kinnevik allocated money to Yell.ru (review portal) and Avito (electronic classifieds platform). Among the latest decisions — Kinnevik and Global Fashion Group will jointly invest $166 million in the development of the international group Global Fashion Group, of which the Lamoda platform (Russia, clothing sales) is a member.
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