#EcomBuzz #8 - Here's a quick wrap of some of this week's hottest news you should be aware of from the #D2C industry
?? FUNDING ALERT
?? Launched in 2022 by Rebecca Rudisch , Yummers - an omnichannel pet lifestyle brand, announces that it has raised $6.3 million in a seed funding round led by? L Catterton , along with Caravan, FS Investors , Platinum Mile Ventures , C&S Family Capital, and Louis Kreisberg
???? An India-based sustainable kidswear D2C brand - Kidbea , led by Swapnil Srivastav raised an undisclosed amount as pre-seed funds from Agility Ventures and other prominent angels
?? Palette Brands – A house of digitally native Instagram-first D2C brands for premium kitchenware & decors owned by? Siddharth Gadodia ?has raised a seed fund of over $1 million led by DHOLAKIA VENTURES , with Inflection Point Ventures and FirstPort (UK)
? Jaipur Watch Company , a luxury customizable watch brand led by Gaurav Mehta , raised its first round of funding, with participation from Dexter Ventures , and Marwari Catalysts
?? Thevasa , an omnichannel handicrafts, and apparel D2C start-up founded by Neha Kalra & Himanshu Wardhan, CFA secured the first round of external investment led by Singapore-based VC fund M Venture Partners (MVP) . The funding also saw participation from 35+ leading angels
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?? Industry Updates
?? Blissclub - A women’s activewear brand founded in 2020 by Minu Bitch Margeret , earns a spot in LinkedIn’s Top Startups of 2022, breaking through the pattern of mostly tech startups being featured in the list.
?? Anurag Chhabra and Divisha Chaudhry ’s Bevzilla – A D2C beverage brand and the curator of India’s first Instant Coffee Cubes, celebrates the International Coffee Day by launching another exotic and exciting flavour called the Turkish Hazelnut to its instant coffee range.
?? American model and actress Gerber Kaia collaborated with the clothing retailer ZARA SA for their new collection?
?? One of India’s leading digital entertainment companies – Pocket Aces , partnered with cookware specialist Aniket Metals to launch Gobble – a kitchenware line for millennial audiences.