2021年5月6日

0股Riyadh-headquartered Retailo B2B电子商务市场已经筹集了670万美元在最大的一个沙特seed-round-ever启动,今天宣布。交易仅仅七个月后Retailo筹集了230万美元在该地区最大的种子计划轮。种子圆形,Retailo目前融资总额的900万美元被返回共同投资者Shorooq伙伴和总部位于伦敦的私人股本公司Abercross控股由多个支持沙特家族理财室。旧金山AgFunder和地区风险投资公司Arzan风险资本也参加了一轮随着不同的个人投资者包括Careem前高管Junaid伊克巴尔。成立于2020年由一组前Careem领导人;现场安萨里,穆罕默德Nowkhaiz Wahaj Ahmed Retailo让杂货店主人为他们的商店买库存使用其移动应用程序,在自己的话说,Retailo的使命是为了简化零售通过使用尖端技术和增加访问通过复杂的供应链漂亮简单,精简和高效。目前在利雅得&卡拉奇Retailo提供送达成千上万的sku的著名快速消费品品牌。启动中心有自己的成就感和最后一英里交付网络履行订单在这两个城市。物流部门雇佣了超过250个直接和间接员工占公司总员工的60%以上。除了Careem, Retailo的创始人和高级领导也建立和扩展产品Foodpanda这样的公司和团队,Daraz,易趣、亚马逊和麦肯锡在不同的国家在该地区。 According to its website, over 30,000 retailers have used Retailo to date. The Saudi startup has been growing at 35 percent (in terms of GMV) month-over-month on average since closing its pre-seed round in October 2020, its co-founder Talha Ansari told MENAbytes, adding that it currently does over 100,000 orders a month in Riyadh & Karachi. “With this investment, Retailo is geared for hyper-growth to rapidly build on what we have already achieved in a short time. The current round of $6.7 million will not only help us expand our existing verticals across MENAP but also build new, much-needed technology products for the highly underserved SME market and bring us closer to achieving our grand vision of unlocking the earning potential of 10 million SMEs,” added Talha in a statement. Issam Hamid, the Managing Partner of Abercross Holdings, said, “Abercross is pleased to partner with the Retailo team in building a modern, efficient, technology-led supply chain across the Middle East and Pakistan region which will bring real benefits to hundreds of thousands of consumers and small retailers.” Michael Dean, Founding Partner at AgFunder said, “Informal retail is an extremely large market that is the backbone of employment and consumer spending in the MENAP region. We were impressed by the Retailo team’s blend of experience and domain expertise and their ability to leverage technology to build a compelling and fast-growing B2B Ecommerce Marketplace to service these markets.” Retailo plans to use the latest funds to deepen its reach in the existing markets, grow its team, and further improve its products.