212 Capital Partners Makes First Investment in Butigo.com
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on February 8, 2012
We had 212 Capital Partners into our radar first with its founders’s individual investments in Hazinem.com. The partnership just announced they have made their first investment as a company in Butigo.com. Started by Gizem Yasa, Harun Güner and Berk Alevi, Butigo.com is a e-commerce site selling shoes, bags and accessories to fashion enthusiasts. Press release contained no data on the amount of investment or [...]
Limango steps in cosmetics and personal care vertical with Limango Pink
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on February 6, 2012
The pieces are falling into place in Turkish private shopping market and vertical websites become the new area where competition is getting hot. Otto Group’s Turkish private shopping platform Limango prefers to compete by making new parts of its initial website, instead of launching new websites. The new part focuses on cosmetics and personal care [...]
Hazinem Pırlanta: Major Investors Invest in Diamond
One Comment by Arda Kutsal on December 27, 2011
Emre Kurttepeli mentioned about his interest in vertical e-trading in this year’s Webrazzi Agenda E-commerce Meeting, and he confirmed this interest once again. A fresh startup, Hazinem Pırlanta A.Ş., is the new vertical e-trading investment with its experienced management team and major investors, including Emre Kurttepeli. The startup will be offering diamond ring, necklace, bracelet, [...]
Amazon Takes the First Step Into the Turkish Market with CicekSepeti.com!
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on December 20, 2011
We are sharing one of the most important news about Turkish internet market in 2011 with you now! World’s e-commerce giant Amazon has finally taken its position in Turkish market as expected and took its first step into Turkish market as the minority shareholder of CicekSepeti.com. As we have learned, contract process that was being [...]
Visitor Numbers for Private Shopping Websites in October by comScore
One Comment by Arda Kutsal on December 19, 2011
Private shopping market has been achieving a steady growth compared to group shopping market, and we thought taking a closer look to this market would be fine. So we requested October data from comScore. The data below reveals that the market is developing steadily. Private shopping market has achieved serious growth in terms of not [...]
Luxybox.com: Çağlar Erol Invests in Birchbox “Box” Model
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on December 15, 2011
Personal care product, cosmetics and perfume industries bear very big opportunities in e-trading world, which is dominated by women and attract both users and investors as a result. Lately the industry has inspired e-trading start-ups as the investment Balerin.com has received, and took it a step further with Markafoni’s sister company MissPera. As the driving [...]
Founders of Markafoni Partners with MarkMost
One Comment by Ümit Öncel on December 6, 2011
MarkMost is a service that offers a new structure of group shopping, and we have received a new development on the service, following the new revenue partnership system. It was today confirmed that Markafoni’s founders Ahmet Emre Sarı, Sina Afra and Tolga Tatari have become partners with MarkMost. We know these three names for their [...]
Majority Sale of Grupfoni Confirmed
4 Comments by Arda Kutsal on December 5, 2011
We had written about the news of Grupfoni, whose 55 percent was sold to a disguised company on 11th November. Today, NOAH Advisors, the negotiator for the acquisition, made an announcement on the issue. NOAH Advisors did not mention about the percentage, but confirmed that majority of shares were sold, while announcing that the group [...]
Bebekbezi.com: OZN Medya Focuses on Diapers and Other Baby Products After Evim.net
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on December 2, 2011
A new player is joining the diaper market which is expected to be a 900-million-dollar market in 2010. Having stepped in e-trading with Evim.net, OZN Medya has recently introduced Bebekbezi.com. Bebekbezi.com could be the most important domain name that OZN Medya owns in the area of e-trading. The average for Google results for baby diaper [...]
BeyazKutu.com: A New, Private E-trading Site Joins iLab Family
One Comment by Fırat Demirel on December 1, 2011
The number of private shopping sites was on a big rise until lately. When the big players came to the front stage, this increase stopped and now we only get to talk about the big players. Beyazkutu.com got noticed more and more at this point and became known in the market with iLab investment. Hamdi [...]