A group of international investors, including Blumberg Capital and Brain-to-Ventures, have invested in a startup Urbanara 3,5 million euros as a result of the investment round A. It is mentioned in the official report of fund.

Project Urbanara  is an online service for the sale of home textiles and home accessories. As It has been explained by the executive  Director of  Victoria Tigipko's fund, the ability to attract investors to the project to the business scaling within limited time  (on the markets of Germany, Austria and the UK). According to her, Ukrainian suppliers will also be able to work with the project.

As the Executive Director of the Project Benjamin Esser pointed out, customers from Russia and Ukraine will be able to order products in the next 2-3 months, and at the beginning of the  next year Russian version of the site will be launched. 

The project started in February 2011 in Germany and Austria. At present, the project has more than 800 lots of goods received from 20 countries worldwide. During the first year of service handled more than 10 thousand orders. Services are available  in Germany, Austria and Great Britain,  they are also expected to expand to other European countries.

Earlier, the fund has invested  $ 1.2 million in startup InBed.me – a website that allows you to book accommodation for the trip, in the project Tailored (online shopping platform for the brides), and - in the Mile High Organics – the U.S. e-commerce company for the delivery of organic non-GMO products to offices and private clients.

Source: AIN.UA