Showing posts with label Livspace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Livspace. Show all posts

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.

Monday, 25 May 2015

Livspace acquires Dwll.in

Helion Backed home design and décor start up Livspace has announced the acquisition of Bengaluru based Dwll.in to lead the space. Founded in 2013, Dwll.in is an Indian curated online network of interior designers. This is Livspace second acquisition in less than a month. Towards the end of the March, the company had bought DezignUp, an online design community and marketplace.
As part of the deal, the co-founders of Dwll.in and the core team will join the Livspace family. With this acquisition, Livspace will start building go-to-market strategy for the western region, in addition to expanding across other metros and Tier 1 Cities. Livspace is currently projecting a revenue run rate of more than a $10 Million in months to come.

Livspace is an online shopping destination for home décor and furnishings. Also, it offers facility to hire designers on its platform. Further, the users can customize the products based on their requirements. It delivers in Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. Online home décor market in India will touch $20 Billion by 2015.

Out of this $20 Billion market 40% - 50% is furniture and rest are pure home décor items such as Cutlery, kitchen items, fancy lamps etc. Other players in the online furniture space include Urban Ladder, Fab Furnish, HomeLane, CustomerFurnish, Pepperfry etc. Online market place like Snapdeal, Jabong, Homeshop18 etc. also have home décor and furnishing as one of their verticals.