Indian
domestic online shopping is expanding at over 80% annually as more and more
young people getting attracted towards online shopping. In India online
shopping has expended their feet in such a way that everyone looks for online
deals who plans to buy anything from market and compare all parameters. That is
Indian Consumers are getting smarter and smarter and tries to get best rates available
in market.
ebay Raised Stake in Snapdeal
Snapdeal which is well known by an
Indian who do online shopping founded by Kunal Bahl and IIT Delhi graduate
Rohit Bansal in 2010 was first in business of providing deals in various
locations all over India just like Groupon doing. But they decided to change their
business model by making it online marketing place in 2011 and that takes the
co. to new highs.
Snapdeal which is owned by Jasper
Infotech now has raised a new funding of 134 million dollars, out of 134
million dollars ebay investment estimated at 100 million dollars i.e. Rs. 650
crore and rest 34 million dollars is invested by smaller investors Nexus
Venture Partners, Kalaari Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Intel Capital and
Saama Capital . ebay which holds earlier 10% stake in Snapdeal now raises their
stake to 20%. Global investors now looking to capture Indian Market.
Now fresh round of funding raised
market valuation of Snapdeal to 1 billion Dollars and close rivals Flipkart
which raised 360 milliom dollars last year in two trenches valued at 1.5
billion dollars.
Flipkart investors last year were
Morgan Stanley, Tiger Global, Dragoneer Investment group, Accel Partners,
Iconiq capital which infused 360 million dollars.
Jabong which deals in online Fashion retailing
raised over $100 million from investors led by British development finance
institution CDC, which invested $27.5 million in the Gurgaon-based company.
Also Myntra online Fashion retailer raised $50 million
from Wipro Chairman Azim Premji's family office, PremjiInvest , Tiger Global
and Accel Partners this year. Last year Myntra has raised 25 million Dollars
from Tiger Global and Accel Partners.
Shopclues also raised 10 million
dollars last year from Hellion Ventures and Nexus Ventures last year. In India
internet users have been around 200 million and out of which 20 million do
transactions online.