2022年12月22日

Jumbotail是印度領先的食品和雜貨產品新零售平台和B2B電子商務市場，由Artal Asia Pte. Ltd.領投8500萬美元C輪融資，Artal Asia Pte. Ltd.是一家全球股權投資公司，管理著超過100億美元的常綠資本。快速消費品企業家阿賈伊·古普塔(Ajay Gupta)的家族辦公室Ajax Capital也參與了本輪融資。本輪C輪融資包括一級和二級投資，早期投資者Nexus Venture Partners和Kalaari Capital在二級投資中少量退出。這使得該公司籌集的總資本達到1.25億美元。Invus亞洲董事總經理Francis Cukierman和Invus美國董事總經理Benjamin Felt將加入Jumbotail董事會。Cukierman和Felt評論道:“我們的常綠結構使我們能夠與尋求轉型的公司進行長期合作，我們很高興能夠與Jumbotail建立這樣的合作關係，Jumbotail正在迅速成為B2B電子商務領域的行業定義公司。我們讚同阿希什和卡蒂克的願景，即將基拉納商店數字化，大規模改變印度的食品和雜貨零售格局。”Jumbotail聯合創始人兼首席運營官Ashish Jhina表示:“我們在2021年的規模幾乎翻了兩番，並希望在未來一年進一步加速增長軌跡。我們將繼續積極投資，使Jumbotail成為食品和雜貨品牌的卓越目的地，通過我們的基拉納合作夥伴泛印度網絡覆蓋絕大多數印度消費者。”阿賈克斯資本的Ajay Gupta說:“我花了近25年的時間在印度艱難地建立快消品品牌，我相信Jumbotail將使下一代快消品品牌更容易快速擴張，成本更低。 I am excited to be part of this journey" “I knew in my first meeting with Jumbotail's founders that I had discovered a company unlike any other in my career. This fundraise is a validation of the top-notch execution demonstrated by the Jumbotail team throughout the Covid pandemic and the immense value they are creating for brands and kirana store entrepreneurs in an incredibly capital efficient manner" said Tom Williams, sole GP of Heron Rock, and a Board Director in Jumbotail. Jumbotail connects nearly 2000 FMCG & staples brands and sellers to ~150,000 kirana stores across 38 cities and towns in India via its full stack e-commerce model consisting of its B2B e-commerce marketplace platform and its industry leading warehousing and logistics supply chain network. Jumbotail’s New Retail platform transforms kirana stores into modern omni-channel convenience grocery stores under the J24 brand within 24-48 hours - offering kirana retailers a full suite of Retail Operating System for digitizing in-store operations with Point-of-Sale (POS), inventory management, real time data and merchandising insights, daily fulfillment of thousands of products, a B2C online store as well as loyalty and digital marketing solutions to better connect retailers to their consumers. The company provides direct and indirect employment to over 2000 people across the country. Jumbotail will use the funds to triple its engineering, product, design, data science, category management, marketing, and finance teams. It will also scale its core B2B marketplace to 100 cities and towns across India, expand its network of J24 stores, invest in large scale kirana entrepreneur skill development initiatives, and further strengthen its Go-To-Market services to support regional and new age FMCG brands. Jumbotail was founded in Nov 2015 by Stanford MBA classmates S.Karthik Venkateswaran and Ashish Jhina. Karthik served with the Indian army in hard combat and is a marketplace tech/product veteran from eBay-US and Flipkart. Ashish Jhina is a 3rd generation apple farmer, and a former consultant with BCG, with deep experience in agricultural production and supply chains. An estimated 14 million kirana stores in India control more than 95% of the country’s $500B+ food and grocery market. Startups like Jumbotail are poised to transform the kirana store ecosystem at an unprecedented pace and scale over the next few years. Share this article: