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Country: France
Market place connecting brands and stores across Europe
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Ankorstore, French Tech's 24th unicorn. 10/01/2022
- Founded in July 2019, Ankostore connects 300,000 independent retailers and 40,000 brands.
- A fast-growing company, its business volume is set to increase almost tenfold between 2020 and 2021.
- A $2 billion financing round values the company at $12.4 billion.
- Ankorstore's model is attractive to retailers, who can discover and purchase new brands with just a few clicks
- The unicorn's latest €250 million round of financing was led by Tiger Global and Bond, a late-stage fund making its first investment in a French nugget.
Ankorstore expands its model and product catalog. 10/01/2022
- Eight months after raising 84 million euros, the young startup is developing a platform to put brands and independent retailers in touch with each other
- It raised 250 million euros in December 2022.
- Ankorstore has grown from 20 employees in 2019 to 400 employees in 2021.
- Since its creation in 2019, the platform connecting brands and independent retailers, Ankorstore, has kept up a phenomenal pace of growth.
- Ankorstore has made 2.5 million connections between the 15,000 brands and 200,000 retailers who use it.
- The start-up aims to open another office in Italy and Spain in 2022, and to become a leader in its sector in Europe.
Ankorstore has raised six million euros to launch rapidly in Europe. 09/12/2019
- Ankorstore's aim is to turn local commerce into a new outlet for brands and retailers.
- Ankorstore has just raised 6 million euros from Global Founders Capital, Alven and Aglaé Ventures, and in just a few weeks has brought together over 1,000 retailers and 300 brands.
- The platform connects brands and merchants.
- Brands are immediately charged by the platform, which takes a 15% commission on their sales to remunerate itself.
- The service is free for retailers.
- It offers an invoicing and order history service.
- The start-up aims to launch in Europe.