Thursday, 10 September 2015

Livspace.com acquires YoFloor

Home Interior Designs E-commerce Pvt. Ltd, which owns online home design start-up Livspace, has acquired YoFloor, a mobile platform that offers a virtual trial room for home design, for an undisclosed amount. This is Livspace third acquisition. It acquired curated online network of Interior designers Dwll.in in May and online community and marketplace for designers and consumers DezignUp in March.
The company also raised $8 Million in an internal funding round from existing investors Helion Ventures Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Jungle Ventures last month. Before that, it raised $4.6 Million in a Series a funding round in December 2014. YoFloor was incubated at Mango Technologies. It offers 3D visualization tools which can be used by buyers and designers to facilitate the visualization of a look or home design before a purchase is done.


As part of the acquisition, the founders and the core team of YoFloor will join Livspace. Livspace was founded in 2012 by former senior executives of Google Inc., Myntra, and founder of Architectural Design consultancy Space Matrix. It competes with Sequoia Capital funded HomeLane.com, as well as bigger furniture e-retailers, Pepperfry and Urban Ladder. Livspace also offers readymade home design solutions and connects customers with interior designers.

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