American Makeup Electric dealer Zalora only a year has been 100 million U.S. dollars investment

Silicon Valley May 23--The rocket, a fashion and beauty retailer Zalora by the Samwer brothers ' investment incubation agency in Germany, announced today that it has received $100 million trillion in funding from the agency.

Also involved in this round of investment are rocket Internet long-term partners, including Summit Partners, investment AB Kinnevik, Verlinvest, and Tengelmann Group.

This round of investment is the largest foreign capital Zalora has ever received, and is one of the few start-up companies in the region to achieve such large-scale financing.

Zalora is headquartered in Singapore but has operations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.

It is reported that Zalora currently employs a total of 1000 people.

Zalora, founded in March 2012, has had at least two rounds of financing. Zalora won tens of millions of dollars from JPMorgan Chase in September 2012. In March 2013, Zalora received a 26 million dollar investment from the German retail group Tengelmann. Zalora funds for business expansion, investment logistics construction and research and development work, its latest product is the release of iOS applications.

Recently, Zalora said it had completed its 1 millionth order, which was only a year from the company's inception. As for income, Zalora did not give a specific figure, but said only tens of millions of dollars. In addition, Zalora said that mobile sales accounted for 25% of its total sales, providing each market with 500 brands and a total of 20,000 commodities.

Zalora Southeast Asia general manager Michel Ferrario (Michele Ferrario) said: "Our company is one of the fastest-growing electric companies in Southeast Asia, with a bright future." It is a great honor for many well-known investors to invest in such a young company. Our goal is to continue to provide world-class products and services, so that every consumer in Southeast Asia enjoy the benefits. ”

Rocket the Internet in Europe to create a start-up of electric business start-ups, it is more imitation of the development of very mature U.S. electric business start-ups. Rocket Internet has launched many enterprises even by the United States of the same type of enterprises for the extensive growth of strategic needs and acquisitions.

Rocket the internet has a strong presence in the European region. However, the Samwer brothers will be more energy transfer to Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, South America and other emerging markets. Rocket the internet typically enters a market that has not yet been developed by US peers, making these companies a potential acquisition target. "Original title: American Makeup Electric dealer Zalora heated up a year to get 100 million dollars investment"