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 [...]
Yemeksepeti.com Sells 10% Stake
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on November 29, 2011
Yemeksepeti.com recently welcomed new stakeholders, thus selling 10% stake. In fact, we heard about it months ago that the company had been thinking about selling a group of stakes. We even heard about some figures and the names of some potential buyers. We have talked with some of our important resources about the stakeholder exchange [...]
New Round Investment for Tasit.com Completed – There are Familiar Names among Partners!
One Comment by Arda Kutsal on November 24, 2011
We have learned that auto classifieds service Tasit.com has received a new round investment. The amount is not certain yet, but we have some hearsay that have yet to be confirmed. Tasit.com has guaranteed to be on the safe side for the next period with the new round of investment that has been finalized with [...]
iPara: New Startup From GittiGidiyor Founders
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on November 21, 2011
New Project of GittiGidiyor founders, iPara has gone online. Partners of this new startup include Serkan Borançılı, Burak Divanlıoğlu, Aydonat Atasever, Tolga Kabataş’ın and Cenk Angın, current GM of GittiGidiyor. iPara is aiming to create a safe shopping platform for both e-trading websites and users. iPara lets its members make shopping with their iPara accounts [...]
Women Will Love This Start-up: VanilyaClub
One Comment by Serkan Ünsal on October 10, 2011
A Project similar to American Birchbox.com and European Glossybox.co.uk went online in Turkey on October 1st and it is called VanilyaClub! As founders Mustafa Ekim and Beri Bener have told me, they have already started to look for investment opportunities. The website works like this: You sign up for monthly subscription, and then receive 4-5 free trial products of latest [...]
Markafoni’s Sister Site MissPera Is Online
One Comment by Arda Kutsal on October 7, 2011
In the past weeks, we shared the news on a new website based on hearsay information and our researches, and finally Markafoni’s new sister website MissPera has gone online. As we have said on the article dated 27 September, MissPera is a service that is similar to Zizigo, but it focuses on cosmetics. And as Zizigo does, [...]