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OCTOBER 5, 2018

Revolve is pushing forward with an IPO and is looking for a $100 million valuation coming out of it. It’s been described as a “fancy price tag,” particularly for an eCommerce up-and-comer most people have never heard of.

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MAY 10, 2018

After much speculation – and a fair amount of “will they, won’t they” – it looks like the deal is done: Walmart will be the majority owner of Indian eCommerce up-and-comer Flipkart, with a 77 percent stake. All it will cost them is a cool $16 billion. What the Deal Will Mean. is known for. “As

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

H&M is also making an investment of $20 million in the payments company, according to reports. The companies aren’t saying what Klarna’s valuation is after the investment, but sources said $20 million is “much less than one percent of the company.”. “We and Sweden in the first phase of deployment.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

Try to beat ’em is, of course, a tall order, given that Amazon’s market cap clocks in at over $900 billion – a valuation backed by its massive logistics network, army of 100 million loyal Prime customers, web services profit machine and evolving and expanding commerce ecosystem. But the mechanics of joining are a bit complex.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

Investment activity picked up for the first full week of the new year as measured against the last week of December, logging a total of just under $519 million. As had been seen in the last few weeks of the year, the total amounts invested were dominated by a few outsized deals, with two triple-digit transactions.

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JULY 10, 2017

Visa’s push into mobile payments continues when late last month it announced its strategic investment in Klarna, the 12-year-old, Sweden-based startup focused on payments and POS financing that counts 70,000 eCommerce sites among its 65 to 70 million customer roster throughout 18 countries. according to Gajda. “We

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

This is not the first case of its kind in the high-stakes world of eCommerce and mobile commerce competition. Some funding here, and some funding there, and pretty soon the valuations start to get a bit heady. The valuation stands at $7.6 billion in its coffers. billion as the company reportedly readies for an IPO.

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

All of this [bad] news is expected to impact the rather complex investment deal that Uber and a SoftBank-led consortium are trying to close in order to add $7 billion to the $10 billion flow into Uber’s coffers. a share, a price that would decrease Uber’s $60 billion valuation by 30 percent. billion in funding.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

This week, luxury online marketplace Farfetch filed to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at a valuation, rumored by outlets such as CNBC, to be as much as $6 billion. That partnership will seek to leverage insight into both online and offline channels. Why should luxury fashion be any different?

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

But the reality is that Uber, by dent of its relentless pursuit of growth, competition in the marketplace from Lyft and others and so forth, managed to move up that growth curve, get all the way to an IPO, establish a public market valuation before the tech meltdown of $100 billion market cap, and they still had not found profit market fit.

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JULY 24, 2017

And it’s only continuing to drive the point home after its latest Series D funding round generated $50 million in new investments, catapulting it to a $275-million valuation. Seasoned collectors, who often come to the platform with a very specific need in mind, can leverage the same algorithm to help them find it.

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JUNE 30, 2017

Then as time goes on, the quality of earnings and cash flow and balance sheets, and the business model represented by a stock, win out in the end (and this is what guides, in general, value investing). The road from here to there is a rocky one. Blue Apron may have the less than stellar luck to follow Snap out of the IPO gate.

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JUNE 6, 2016

This, of course, is Walmart’s announcement of a new partnership with Uber and Lyft to leverage those ride-sharing platforms to deliver groceries in a two-hour window to Walmart customers. Uber just created more demand – just like they have with UberEats, which also leverages Uber drivers for pickup and delivery.

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