UK’s Bloom & Wild raises $102M to seed its flower delivery service across Europe
Bloom & Wild, a London-based startup that takes an updated and online approach to the very traditional business of ordering and delivering flowers, has seen business blossom in the last year. And today, it is announcing a big round of funding to help it double down on the opportunity ahead.
The company has raised £75 million ($102 million), a Series D that it plans to use to continue expanding across Europe (in addition to the UK, it operates today in Ireland, France, Germany and Austria) as it also continues to build out the business through technology, hiring new talent, thinking up more ideas and new partnerships, such as a new deal with supermarket giant Sainsbury’s to spearhead a new brick-and-mortar push.
London start-up Bloom & Wild has raised £75m ($102m) to expand its flower delivery service across Europe. The company, which already operates in Ireland, France, Germany and Austria, as well as the UK, will continue to ramp up its online operations through technology, hiring talent and new partnerships. The funding is being led by General Catalyst, with Index Ventures (which has stakes in Facebook (FB) and Just Eat (JET.L)), Novator, Latitude.
Carsome Announces Series D Fundraising ACN Newswire
2020-12-16
SEOUL & KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 16, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - Carsome, Southeast Asia s largest integrated car e-commerce platform, recently completed its Series D fundraising. The US$30 million round, one of the largest all-equity financings to-date in Southeast Asia s online automotive industry, was led by Asia Partners and was joined by existing Carsome investors Burda Principal Investments and Ondine Capital.
According to Eric Cheng, Co-founder and Group CEO of Carsome, this fundraising round, the largest equity investment in Carsome s history, is a strong endorsement of its integrated business model, with end-to-end digital enablement across used car sellers, dealers, and buyers. We will use this capital to strengthen our existing regional leadership in consumer-to-business (C2B) used car e-commerce and accelerate our already successful new offering in the business-to-consumer (B2C) segment. We look forward to
Carsome Announces Series D Fundraising Published : Tuesday, December 15, 2020, 9:00 am ACROFAN=ACNNewswire | us@acnnewswire.net | SNS
SEOUL & KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 15, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - Carsome, Southeast Asia s largest integrated car e-commerce platform, recently completed its Series D fundraising. The US$30 million round, one of the largest all-equity financings to-date in Southeast Asia s online automotive industry, was led by Asia Partners and was joined by existing Carsome investors Burda Principal Investments and Ondine Capital.
According to Eric Cheng, Co-founder and Group CEO of Carsome, this fundraising round, the largest equity investment in Carsome s history, is a strong endorsement of its integrated business model, with end-to-end digital enablement across used car sellers, dealers, and buyers. We will use this capital to strengthen our existing regional leadership in consumer-to-business (C2B) used car e-commerce and accelerate our already successful n
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