Meet Singapore's Cococart, which helps small local businesses easily set up shop and sell online. This e-commerce enabler just bagged a $4.2M seed, led by Forerunner Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
Who else cashed in? Y Combinator, Uncommon Capital, Soma Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, James Park (Fitbit) and Eduardo Vivas (Curated) joined the round.
🥥  Add to (Coco)cart
Build a free store in minutes. Build a simple, fast and beautiful store in minutes with no code, apps or design skills or experience required.
Automate orders from social media. Replying to DMs manually for orders sucks. You always have to be online and replying, and you might even make a mistake— so you lose sales.
Accept all kinds of payments. Accept credit and debit cards, bank transfer, GCash, AfterPay, Venmo, AliPay and more.
Easy management. Lose the spreadsheet! Their admin dashboard allows you to manage orders and inventory, view your earnings, add products and more.
🛒  What's next?
Cococart's doubling down on international expansion and accelerating its product development. The goal? Hit 200M businesses worldwide.
It's just the beginning. To make starting and running businesses as easy as possible, they're looking into building solutions in deliveries, supply chain and financing.
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