Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket
https://www.reuters.com/article/...ket-heats-up-sources-idUSKCN1GA14C
"The money was provided by new investors KKR, Warburg Pincus, Farallon Capital and Capital Group Private Markets. Existing investors Sequoia India, Northstar Group, DST Global, NSI Ventures, Rakuten Ventures and Formation Group also took part."
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/04/...nts-at-southeast-asia-expansion/
"Go-Jek had planned last year to raise $1.2 billion, and, with the 25 percent extra funds it has received, it is now valued at about $5 billion, according to the sources."
Wenn die Löschung des Postings aufgehoben wird, was nicht anders sein kann, könnt Ihr das dort in der angegebenen Quelle nachlesen. Für eine derartige Löschung habe ich keinerlei Verständnis, weil sich der Moderator offensichtlich nicht einmal einen kurszen Quellentext durchgelesen hat.
Published on July 20, 2018
Glovo, a Barcelona, Spain-based local goods marketplace, closed a €115m Series C funding round.
Backers included Rakuten, Cathay Innovation, Seaya Ventures, AmRest, Idinvest Partners and GR Capital.
The company intends to use the funds to continue to optimize the platform, expand the tech team with hire over 100 engineers in the coming months.
http://www.finsmes.com/2018/07/...s-e115m-series-c-funding-round.html
https://capital.rakuten.com/
Denn die Beteiligung an Pinterest wurde offensichtlich schon eingegangen, als Rakuten Capital noch nicht aus der Taufe gehoben wurden war.
Die Frage ist, mit welchem Wert Pinterest bisher bilanziert wurde?
wäre es schon gut zu wissen, mit welchem Betrag Rakuten hier eingestiegen ist.
https://www.ft.com/content/440374a8-9ffa-11e1-94ba-00144feabdc0
Das wären dann ein Anteilswert von 600 Millionen.
12 JUN 2018
On May 31, GMS and Viber held a joint event in Kiev, Ukraine. Attended by around 60 marketers representing top Ukrainian companies, the event gave an insight into the ways Viber can benefit businesses. GMS and Viber showed participants how and why it makes sense to use Viber to optimize the efficiency of communication with a business’ target audience.
The invasion of OTTs has transformed the way businesses communicate with their customers. As Artem Doroshenko, Head of Enterprise Relations Division, GMS mentioned, “Viber’s stronghold in Ukraine with an impressive penetration of 93% among smartphone users makes it the preferred choice for Ukrainian marketers when it comes to fast and two-way communication with customers”.
https://www.gms-worldwide.com/news/...iber.+gms+and+viber+joint+event
Lyft’s Growth
Lyft, still largely focused in the US, has grown significantly during the past year. According to its Co-Founder and President John Zimmer, Lyft more than doubled the 162.6 million rides it provided in 2016. It is now available in all the 50 US states. Last year, Lyft also made its first international presence when it began operating its service in Toronto, Canada. Lyft has clearly benefited from all the turmoil at Uber. Here is an interesting infographic, courtesy recode, that shows how Lyft made big advances in San Francisco and New York, when compared with Uber.
https://www.sramanamitra.com/2018/01/04/...be-changing-gears-to-list/
PR Newswire•July 24, 2018
Predictive AI Helps Brands Discover New, Previously Untapped Customers Who Are Ready to Buy
SAN MATEO, Calif., July 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Rakuten Marketing has released a new edition of its high-performing programmatic Prospecting product, taking online advertising to an all new level of performance by connecting brands with relevant, in-market audiences they wouldn't have otherwise found. This new, market-leading edition of Rakuten Marketing Prospecting is powered by proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology, and unique Rakuten ecosystem data. It successfully helps brands acquire high-value consumers that will drive long-term growth through loyalty and repeat purchases.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/...rammatic-prospecting-100500422.html
https://asia.nikkei.com/Asia300/...helped-by-ride-sharing-investment2
Das Rakuten Start Ups im großen Stil unterstützt gefällt mir. https://e27.co/...d-rakuten-accelerator-programme-singapore-20180726/
Rakuten Global Market is an e-commerce platform that allows shoppers from around the world to connect with merchants on the Japan-based Rakuten Ichiba, providing automatic translation, as well as payment and delivery solutions, to create a truly borderless shopping experience. The global-facing site is run by Rakuten’s Cross-Border Trading (CBT) department, who also manage flagship stores offering popular Rakuten Ichiba products on other major marketplaces around the world, including China’s Kaola and JD.com, and Korea’s Gmarket and 11STREET.
GLOBAL DEMAND FOR JAPANESE PRODUCTS ON THE RISE
“We’ve grown gross merchandise sales (GMS) about eight times bigger in the past five years,” said Haruyoshi Kinoshita, who heads up the CB
Much of that growth is coming from neighboring markets like Taiwan and Hong Kong, but further-afar countries such as the United States are also demonstrating a demand for Japanese-made goods.
https://rakuten.today/blog/rakuten-global-market.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/20/...e-as-it-plans-to-ipo-mid-2019.html
China: Rabatt-Plattform Pinduoduo plant Börsengang
Chinas Rabatt-Plattform Pinduoduo will bei ihrem Börsengang in New York bis zu 1,6 Mrd. Dollar einnehmen. Dies berichtet die Nachrichtenagentur Reuters unter Berufung auf eine Mitteilung an die Börsenaufsicht. Das Unternehmen wolle 85,6 Mio. Aktien zu einem Stückpreis von 16 bis 19 Dollar ausgeben. Bei einer Finanzierungsrunde im April kam Pinduoduo auf eine Bewertung von 15 Mrd. Dollar. Laut Eigenangaben verwenden die Plattform rund 103 Mio. Nutzer, doch das Unternehmen schreibt immer noch rote Zahlen. Zu den wichtigsten Investoren zählt der chinesische Internetkonzern Tencent Holdings. Als größter Konkurrent gilt die Alibaba Group.
https://ostexperte.de/pinduoduo-boersengang/