Leading American e-commerce investors such as Accel Partners, Insight Ventures or Lightspeed Venture Partners who invested 10 years ago in Zappos (now a part of Amazon) or 5 years ago in Diapers (also now a part of Amazon) won’t be investing any more in traditional sales models.
Instead, US investors are seeing the next Zappos as something more like a Bonobos, Birchbox, ModCloth or Shoedazzle. These ventures have business models which employ unique and difficult to copy components (see presentation from the Imagine Conference) and all were able to enjoy big finance rounds in 2010:
Anyone working on exciting and new e-commerce concepts in the areas of Fast Fashion or Beauty is heartily invited in March to present at our Live Shopping Days conference in Berlin.
This year we will be enjoying a presentation from Accel Partners on e-commerce models with disruptive potential. In the past, Accel financed companies such as Etsy, Groupon, Diapers, ModCloth, Spreadshirt, ShowroomPrive and recently Bonobos with $18.5 million and Birchbox with $1.4 million.
Related posts:
- Imagine: New Opportunities for eCommerce Entrepreneurs
- Shoedazzle Gets $13 Million from Lightspeed Ventures
- Announcing the Live Shopping Days 2011 in Berlin
Originally posted in German by Jochen Krisch, adapted for excitingcommerce.com by Jason Soo.
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