Jumbotail为其在印度的批发市场筹集了1420万美元

杂货和食品在线批发市场Jumbotail上周五表示，由于这家总部位于班加罗尔的初创公司正在寻求将世界第二大互联网市场的邻里店数字化的机会，该公司又筹集了1420万美元。

这家成立5年的初创公司表示，新一轮B轮融资由VII Ventures牵头，Nutresa、Veronorte、Jumbofund、Klingert Investment Trust、Peter Crosby Trust、Nexus Venture Partners和Discovery Ventures参与。

这家初创公司告诉TechCrunch，新的B轮融资已经结束，该轮融资于2019年启动，融资额为1270万美元。这家初创公司在接受本刊采访时表示，该公司最终在B轮融资（包括上周五的部分融资）中筹集了约4400万美元，迄今为止已累积了约5400万美元的股权投资。

Jumbotail说，它为印度3万多家社区商店（印度俗称基拉纳）提供服务。除了企业对企业市场，这家初创公司还通过与金融机构的合作，为附近的商店提供营运资金。

这家初创公司建立了自己的供应链网络，以实现“最后一英里”配送，同时还为这些商店提供销售点设备，以便他们能够轻松地获得更广泛的目录选择，并在两天内将新的库存运送到这些商店。它还将这些商店与邓佐（Dunzo）和斯威吉（Swiggy）等超本地送货初创公司进行整合，以帮助夫妻店进一步扩大客户群。

Jumbotail的联合创始人Ashish Jhina说，他认为这家初创公司已经到了增长的拐点，现在已经准备好迎接下一个篇章，其中包括雇佣顶尖人才，并向印度更多地区，特别是南印度的几个城市扩张。

Jhina说：“我们看到全球各地的投资者对我们高度可扩展和运营盈利的商业模式产生了极大的兴趣，这种商业模式建立在行业最佳技术和客户NPS的基础上。”。

原文：Jumbotail,  an online wholesale marketplace for grocery and food items, said on Friday it has raised an additional $14.2 million as the Bangalore-based startup chases the opportunity to digitize neighborhood stores in the world’s second-largest internet market.

The five-year-old startup said the new tranche of its Series B financing round was led by VII Ventures, with participation from Nutresa, Veronorte, Jumbofund, Klinkert Investment Trust, Peter Crosby Trust, Nexus Venture Partners  and Discovery Ventures.

The startup told TechCrunch that the new tranche concludes its Series B round, which it kickstarted in 2019 with a tranche of $12.7 million. It ended up raising about $44 million in the Series B round (including Friday’s tranche), and to date has amassed about $54 million in equity investment, the startup told the publication.

Jumbotail said it serves more than 30,000 neighborhood stores (popularly known in India as kiranas) in the country. In addition to its business-to-business marketplace, the startup also provides working capital to neighborhood stores through partnerships with financial institutions.

The startup, which has built its own supply chain network to enable last-mile delivery, also supplies these stores with point-of-sale devices so they can easily get access to a much wider selection of catalog and have the new inventory shipped to them within two days. It also integrates these stores with hyperlocal delivery startups such as Dunzo and Swiggy to help mom and pop shops further expand their customer base.

Ashish Jhina, co-founder of Jumbotail, said he believes the startup has reached an inflection point in its growth and is now ready for its next chapter, which includes hiring top talent and expanding to more regions in the country, especially in several cities in South India.

“We are seeing tremendous interest from investors across the globe who are drawn to our highly scalable and operationally profitable business model, built on the industry’s best technology and customer NPS,” said Jhina.