Berrybenka Bukukan US$5 Juta Pendanaan Seri B dari Transcosmos, Fokus Ke Ekspansi Perusahaan

Tak diragukan lagi bahwa geliat e-commerce di Indonesia sedang mengalami perkembangan yang besar. Perusahaan e-commerce yang bergerak di bidang fashion khusus wanita Berrybenka mendapatkan pendanaan startegis seri B. Melalui siaran persnya hari ini (21/11), PT Berrybenka, mengumumkan mendapat kucuran dana seri B dari Transcosmos inc dan GREE Ventures. Dikabarkan total dana yang diterima, sebanyak USD 5 juta. Ini merupakan jumlah yang cukup besar untuk putaran dana seri B yang terjadi di Indonesia.

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Jason Lamuda: E-Commerce is a Lot Like Traditional Retail

Fashion e-commerce site BerryBenka now serve 300-500 transactions per day after its launch in late 2011. CEO Jason Lamuda revealed that he plans to raise another round of funding some time this year as the company grows in double digit percentage on a monthly basis. Lamuda had a chat with us this week about the Indonesian e-commerce landscape and shared his views on VCs looking into investing in the local Internet business scene, his competition, growth potentials, and other issues affecting Internet-based businesses.

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Sambut Ulang Tahun Jakarta, Penggiat E-commerce Adakan Festival “Jakarta Great Online Sale”

Hadir sebagai tandem event tahunan “Jakarta Great Sale” yang digagas oleh para pelaku industri retail di Jakarta, para penggiat e-commerce dan sejumlah daily deals yang juga turut ingin menyemarakkan perhelatan ulang tahun Ibukota Jakarta ke-486 yang jatuh pada 22 Juni ini mengadakan festival “Jakarta Great Online Sale” (JGOS). Pada festival ini, situs-situs e-commerce yang terdaftar akan memberikan penawaran terbaik bagi para shoppers di Jakarta.
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Lazada, Yahoo, and Other Indonesian E-Commerce Players to Hold a Shopping Bonanza on 12-12-12

Tomorrow, 12 December 2012, will be an important day for online store players and consumers in Indonesia. Based on Cyber Monday, which is an online shopping discount event created as a follow up to the post-Thanksgiving Black Friday shopping tradition, a number of Indonesian online marketplaces and stores are holding a joint discount event which they call #1212sale, initiated by Lazada and Yahoo!.

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Lazada, Yahoo, dan Pemain E-Commerce Indonesia Lainnya Menggelar Event Belanja Akbar Pada 12-12-12

Tanggal 12 Desember 2012 (12-12-12) besok bakal menjadi ajang penting bagi konsumen dan penggiat toko online di Indonesia. Berkaca pada Cyber Monday yang merupakan ajang diskon toko online di Amerika Serikat yang meneruskan tradisi Black Friday setelah Thanksgiving, sejumlah online marketplace dan toko online ternama di Indonesia menggelar ajang diskon besar-besaran tahun ini dengan nama #1212sale, yang diprakarsai oleh Lazada dan Yahoo.
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Groupon Indonesia Founders Leave to Focus on E-Commerce Startups

The other day we reported the launch of Bilna, an e-commerce site that sells baby products. The people behind the web site? Ferry Tenka and Jason Lamuda, both of whom are the co-founders of Disdus which became Groupon Indonesia. Lamuda himself had been an advisor at a fashion e-commerce site called BerryBenka, co-founded by his wife and her friend back in August 2011. With the two co-founders of Groupon Indonesia focusing on their own companies, the obvious question is, “what’s happening with Groupon Indonesia?”. Continue reading Groupon Indonesia Founders Leave to Focus on E-Commerce Startups

CyberAgent Ventures and East Ventures backs Disdus founders to launch Bilna

Japan’s CyberAgent Ventures and Singapore-based East Ventures today announced that they are closing a round of funding for a new e-commerce site that focuses on baby and kids products called Bilna. And if you know the people behind the new e-commerce company, then you will come to no surprise on why those two big investment firms decided to back them up.

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Berrybenka Receives Investment from East Ventures

We heard the news that East Ventures has added Berrybenka into its investment portfolio. Berrybenka is one of few curated online commerce startup which focuses on women fashion and has similar product line with Zalora (from Rocket Internet) and Ratimaya. Until today, Berrrybenka has already had more than 50 brands as partners with 3000 different products. The investment value from East Ventures is not disclosed.

Berrybenka is founded on August 2011 by Claudia Widjaja and Yenti Elizabeth. Interestingly, Berrybenka also has Jason J. Lamuda and Ferry Tanka as recently-joint advisors. Both people are founders of Disdus which has been acquired by Groupon and previously was in investment list of East Ventures too.

The fund obtained, according to Claudia Widjaja, will be utilized to build Berrybenka as the leading fashion commerce site in Indonesia that promotes local brands and designers. Speaking about its portfolio, this is East Ventures’ first startup that focus on fashion commerce and should be interesting to hear as fashion commerce will be one segment to spark this year.

Berrybenka Terima Investasi dari East Ventures

Kami menerima kabar bahwa East Ventures menambah lagi portofolio investasinya dengan memasukkan Berrybenka ke dalam daftarnya. Berrybenka adalah satu dari sedikit curated online commerce yang fokus di bidang fashion dan memiliki bidang yang mirip dengan Zalora (dari Rocket Internet) dan Ratimaya. Hingga saat ini Berrybenka telah memiliki lebih dari 50 brands sebagai partner kerjasama dan 3000 buah produk yang berbeda. Produk yang dijual di Berrybenka adalah produk fashion perempuan. Nilai investasi yang diberikan oleh East Ventures tidak diumumkan.

Berrybenka didirikan bulan Agustus 2011 oleh Claudia Widjaja dan Yenti Elizabeth. Yang menarik, Berrybenka memiliki Jason J. Lamuda dan Ferry Tanka yang baru bergabung selaku advisors. Keduanya adalah pendiri Disdus yang telah diakuisisi oleh Groupon dan sebelumnya juga merupakan startup yang mendapat investasi dari East Ventures.

Dana yang diperoleh, menurut Claudia Widjaja akan digunakan untuk membangun Berrybenka menjadi situs commerce fashion terdepan di Indonesia yang mempromosikan desainer dan brand lokal. Dari portofolionya selama ini, ini adalah kali pertama bagi East Ventures untuk berinvestasi di startup yang fokus untuk segmen commerce, terutama produk fashion.

East Ventures closes the year with Disdus investment

East Ventures is not going to end this year without some serious announcement for their Indonesian portfolio, as we receive a press release from Jason Lamuda, CEO and co-founder of Disdus. Disdus launched in August 2010 –together with 2 other similar sites– is one of the biggest Groupon clone in Indonesia together with DealKeren as incumbent players in the collective commerce scene. Their partnership with Kaskus in October boost up their visibility and gained new users from the mammoth forum, and apparently their partnership with the people behind Kaskus is only getting better.

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