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Berlin Brands Group

https://www.berlin-brands-group.com/en

Last activity: 01.12.2021

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Berlin Brands Group (BBG) is a global e-commerce company and one of the pioneers in the direct-to-consumer business. The Berlin-based hidden champion currently sells over 3,700 every day and trendy products across 34 of its own e-commerce brands. The goal: to become one of the world's leading e-commerce companies with a 'global house of digital brands'.

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Location: Germany, Berlin

Total raised: $940.31M

Valuation: $1B

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Investors 2

Date	Name	Website
-	Ardian	ardian.com
09.11.2021	Bain Capit...	baincapita...

Funding Rounds 2

Date	Series	Amount	Investors
02.09.2021	-	$700.31M	-
13.04.2021	-	$240M	-

Mentions in press and media 22

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01.12.2021	Sea’s VC arm backs US ecommerce roll-up firm	EcommerceInvestmentsNewsStartups Aditya Hadi Pratama · 2 Dec 2021 · 1 min readSea’s VC arm backs US ecommerce roll-up firm Markai, an ecommerce roll-up firm based in the US, has raised US$4 million in a seed round led by Pear VC, with parti...
17.11.2021	Ardian provides Berlin Brands Group with additional growth capital	Berlin / Frankfurt am Main, September 1, 2021 – Ardian, a world leading private investment house, announces today that it is providing additional growth capital to Berlin Brands Group ("BBG"), a global e-commerce company based in ...
02.09.2021	Sequoia backs a podcasting-focused, Clubhouse competitor from David Sacks	David Sacks, who cofounded Yammer and sold it to Microsoft for about $1.2 billion in 2012, is launching his next startup. On Thursday, the former Zenefits CEO announced the official launch of Callin, his live-audio, podcasting-focused start...
02.09.2021	Meet Germany’s new unicorn: Berlin Brands Group raises $700M led by Bain Capital	Germany-based Berlin Brands Group (BBG), a vertical commerce company that offers sound & light, home & living, and consumer electronic products all under one roof, announced that it has secured a whopping $700M (approx €590.89M) in ...
02.09.2021	Sequoia backs a podcasting-focused, Clubhouse competitor from David Sacks	David Sacks, who cofounded Yammer and sold it to Microsoft for about $1.2 billion in 2012, is launching his next startup. Paid Content Why the Electricity 4.0 moment is here From Schneider Electric On Thursday, the former Zenefits CEO annou...
01.09.2021	Berlin Brands Group raises $700 mln as Bain takes stake	BERLIN, Sept 1 (Reuters) - U.S. private equity firm Bain has taken a minority stake in Berlin Brands Group (BBG) as part of a $700 million financing deal, which means the German e-commerce company joins the ranks of "unicorn" star...
01.09.2021	Ardian sells its minority stake in Berlin Brands Group, a global e-commerce company, to Bain Capital	Berlin / Frankfurt am Main, September 1, 2021 – Ardian, a world leading private investment house, has signed an agreement with Bain Capital to sell its c.40-per cent minority stake in Berlin Brands Group (“BBG”), a global e-commerce company...
01.09.2021	Berlin Brands Group, now valued at $1B+, raises $700M to buy and scale merchants that sell on marketplaces like Amazon	Berlin Brands Group (BBG) — one of the new wave of e-commerce startups hoping to build lucrative economies of scale around buying up smaller brands that sell on marketplaces like Amazon and using technology to run and scale them more effici...
22.06.2021	Chinese sellers on Amazon in hot demand by VCs and e-commerce roll-ups	Chinese merchants selling on Amazon are having a moment. The scruffy exporters are used to roaming about suburban factory areas and dealing with constant cash flow strain, but suddenly they find themselves having coffee with top Chinese ven...
13.04.2021	AMAZON.COM, INC. Berlin Brands Group raises $240 mln in debt for e-commerce deals	BERLIN, April 13 (Reuters) - German e-commerce company Berlin Brands Group (BBG) said on Tuesday it had raised $240 million in debt financing to support the expansion of its direct-to-consumer brand portfolio, which it markets via Amazon an...
13.04.2021	Today in European Tech: Berlin Brands Group nabs $240 million in debt financing, Babylon eyeing a major SPAC deal, and more	Hello! Here's what happened today in European Tech. Deals - Germany-based e-commerce company Berlin Brands Group, which creates and acquires online retail brands, announced $240 million in debt financing, its first outside capital, to accel...
13.04.2021	Berlin Brands Group raises $240 million in debt for e-commerce deals	By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read BERLIN (Reuters) - German e-commerce company Berlin Brands Group (BBG) said on Tuesday it had raised $240 million in debt financing to support the expansion of its direct-to-consumer brand portfolio, which it mar...
13.04.2021	Berlin Brands Group raises $240M to buy and scale up third-party Amazon Marketplace brands	The race is on for companies building e-commerce empires by rolling up smaller, promising businesses that sell via Amazon and other marketplaces and growing by using some economies of scale to operate them as one. In the latest development,...
28.01.2021	Berlin Brands Group commits $302M to acquire D2C and Amazon merchants	If the rise of direct-to-consumer businesses has been one of the big e-commerce trends of the last decade, then the growth of startups raising huge rounds to consolidate D2C players, to bring more economies of scale to the model, has defini...
16.09.2020	Ardian Expansion closes fifth generation fund at €2Bn	Paris, September 16th, 2020. Ardian, a world leading private investment house, today announces it has raised €2 billion for its latest Expansion fund, Ardian Expansion Fund V. Despite a backdrop marked by the Covid-19 outbreak, Ardian has d...
-	Berlin Brands Group raises €590 million, becomes unicorn	Berlin Brands Group has secured 700 million dollars (590 million euros) of additional debt and equity financing. The millions of euros were raised for the acquisition of ecommerce brands and the development of an international logistics net...
-	PayPal Mafia's Keith Rabois has acquired 40 Shopify sellers in the past year through his startup OpenStore. He's not slowing down despite the recent problems in the aggregator space.	Keith Rabois. Keith Rabois This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. OpenStore, Keith Rabois' latest venture, acquired 40 brands after launching less than a year ago. OpenStore is c...
-	Today in European Tech: Berlin Brands Group nabs $240 million in debt financing, Babylon eyeing a major SPAC deal, and more	Hello! Here's what happened today in European Tech. Deals - Germany-based e-commerce company Berlin Brands Group, which creates and acquires online retail brands, announced $240 million in debt financing, its first outside capital, to accel...
-	Berlin Brands Group to expand logistics network in Europe	Berlin Brands Group has plans to massively expand its own logistics network in Europe over the next two years. The German company, which acquires ecommerce brands and Amazon retailers, will open logistics centers in multiple countries acros...
-	Big Amazon rollups are now looking for ways to reduce their reliance on Amazon's logistics infrastructure	The Amazon app and website. Denis Charlet/AFP via Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Amazon's FBA service, which stores, processes, and ships products for seller...
-	This Week in European Tech: Berlin Brands Group crowned Europe's latest unicorn, Delivery Hero raises €1.25 billion in bond sale, and more	Happy Friday! This week, our research team tracked more than 74 tech funding deals worth more than €1.8 billion, and 22 exits, M&A transactions, and rumours, and related news stories across Europe (including Russia, Israel, and Turkey)....
-	How Thrasio, the well-funded creator of Amazon aggregator space, went from 'hypergrowth' to layoffs in less than 2 years — and leaves the model it pioneered in question	This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. E-commerce startup Thrasio helped define the Amazon aggregator model, buying up the site's top brands. On May 2, the company announced sign...

Berlin Brands Group

Investors 2

Funding Rounds 2

Mentions in press and media 22

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