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Vinted Secures TPG-Led Secondary Investment at Valuation of €5B, Reflecting Profitable Growth
- Secondary share sale of €340 million to a group of new investors, including TPG and Hedosophia, recognises employee contribution to Vinted becoming a leader in Europe.
- The transaction values Vinted at €5 billion and brings in new investors for the next phase of growth.
- In 2023, Vinted delivered 61% revenue growth and reached profitability, while investing for the future.
LONDON, Oct. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Vinted, Europe’s leading second-hand C2C marketplace focused on fashion, has closed a secondary share sale of €340 million at a valuation of €5 billion.
The transaction, led by TPG (NASDAQ: TPG), a leading global alternative asset manager, validates Vinted’s opportunity and progress in developing and growing the second-hand market globally. It also diversifies the company’s investor base with new expertise and rewards its employees and early investors for their contributions to Vinted’s success.
TPG Tech Adjacencies (TTAD), TPG’s strategy dedicated to providing flexible capital solutions to the technology industry, is funding the investment. Other major investment funds including Hedosophia, Baillie Gifford, Invus Opportunities, FJ Labs, Manhattan Venture Partners, and Moore Strategic Ventures also participated. All of Vinted’s existing institutional investors remain invested in the company.
In 2021, at the time of Vinted’s last fundraising round, the company had a pre-money valuation of €3.5 billion. Since then, Vinted has increased its gross merchandise value (GMV) by more than 3.5x and has become fully profitable. In 2023, the company delivered revenue growth of 61% and had a double-digit EBITDA margin.* Vinted has become the European leader in its field, encouraging people to adopt new consumption habits and today, more than a third (37%) of Vinted members say that second-hand makes up at least half of their wardrobe.**
This growth has been enabled by Vinted’s rigorous focus on ensuring its members get excellent value at the lowest possible cost. In the last year alone, Vinted marketplace expanded in existing markets, and launched into new markets including Finland, Greece and Croatia. The company also launched a new verification service to help members trade designer and luxury fashion items more safely. This feature is now live in 10 countries.
In recent weeks, Vinted has begun the roll-out of a new category for electronics. And in parallel, the company has successfully expanded its shipping business in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. Vinted’s payments business has acquired an EMI license and is working on solutions to improve how members transact on Vinted.
Thomas Plantenga, CEO of Vinted, said: “We’re delighted to welcome new investors with the experience to support us through our next phase of growth, while continuing to benefit from the expertise of our long-term backers. TPG and our other new investors share our vision: to make second-hand the first choice, worldwide. We’re also delighted that this share sale rewards our employees for their dedication in making Vinted a success.
We are incredibly proud to have built a product that our members love to use, and that has created a market for second-hand fashion. Vinted shows it’s possible to have a successful, profitable business that positively impacts people, communities, and the environment.”
Andy Doyle, Partner at TPG, said: “We’ve seen that consumers are increasingly choosing second-hand as a core part of their wardrobe, as sustainability and flexibility become top of mind for many people. Vinted’s customer focus, leading product experience, and sophisticated approach to logistics have made this market accessible to an even broader population. We are excited to partner with Thomas and his team of world-class operators and to count Vinted among our growing portfolio of leading European tech businesses.”
Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc served as financial advisor and placement agent for the transaction. Taylor Wessing and Cooley provided legal advice to Vinted.
*April 29, 2024 (Vinted delivers strong year of growth and reaches profitability, while investing for the future )
** According to Vinted’s Impact Report, released in June 2024
About Vinted
Vinted Marketplace is Europe’s leading international online C2C marketplace dedicated to second-hand fashion and more. With a mission to make second-hand the first choice worldwide, Vinted enables people to sell and buy second-hand clothes and lifestyle items from each other, helping give those items a second or even third life.
Vinted was founded in 2008 in Lithuania and in 2019 became the country’s first Unicorn.
Today Vinted is still headquartered in Vilnius, with offices in Lithuania, Germany and the Netherlands, and over 2,000 employees. Its backers include Accel, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sprints.
About TPG
TPG is a leading global alternative asset management firm, founded in San Francisco in 1992, with $229 billion of assets under management and investment and operational teams around the world. TPG invests across a broadly diversified set of strategies, including private equity, impact, credit, real estate, and market solutions, and our unique strategy is driven by collaboration, innovation, and inclusion. Our teams combine deep product and sector experience with broad capabilities and expertise to develop differentiated insights and add value for our fund investors, portfolio companies, management teams, and communities. For more information, visit www.tpg.com.
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FinMont Announces Strategic Partnership with Leading Payment Provider, The Payments Group
BERLIN, Oct. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — FinMont, a global payment orchestration platform, today announced a strategic partnership with The Payments Group (TPG), a leading payment solution provider. This collaboration aims to enhance FinMont’s payment ecosystem by integrating TPG’s innovative cash and evoucher payment solutions, offering more flexibility and improved payment capabilities for FinMont’s global network of travel industry merchants.
The founders of German airline, Hahn Air, launched FinMont to offer the travel industry a unique solution that, unlike other options available, streamlines not only B2C payments but also B2B payments. Combining both payments into a single view will help decision-makers identify and fix inefficiencies in their current payment processes.
The Payments Group was established by a team of payment industry veterans and has revolutionised cash payments for e-commerce. Its CashtoCode service simplifies the process of making secure cash payments for online merchants and their customers. This service is recognised for its speed, simplicity, and accessibility, ensuring that cash payments remain a viable and inclusive option in the digital economy.
With this new partnership, FinMont will integrate TPG’s cash payment and e-voucher solutions into its global payment ecosystem. This move will provide FinMont’s international travel merchants with more diverse payment options, ensuring they can cater to a broader customer base while reducing payment processing complexities.
Suby Valluri, CEO of FinMont commented on the partnership, saying, “We are excited to join forces with The Payments Group to offer our merchants even more flexibility in payment solutions. Cash payments continue to play a crucial role in many parts of the world, and by integrating CashtoCode, we can help travel merchants reach more customers, reduce friction in payment processes, and ultimately drive growth.”
Jens Bader, The Payments Group CEO and founder, added, “Our partnership with FinMont enables us to bring our innovative cash and evoucher payment solutions to a wider range of travel merchants. We give merchants all the resources they need to succeed in the competitive world of ecommerce and start taking payments as quickly as possible. Working together with FinMont, we aim to streamline and enhance the entire end-to-end payment process.”
About FinMont
FinMont is an end-to-end omnichannel travel payment management platform.
The founders of German airline, Hahn Air, launched FinMont to offer the travel industry a unique solution that, unlike other options available, streamlines not only B2C payments but also B2B payments. Combining both payments into a single view will help decision-makers identify and fix inefficiencies in their current payment processes. The firm’s mission is to help travel merchants use payments as a strategic tool to stand out from their competitors.
About The Payments Group
The Payments Group is a German stock-listed holding company that operates four Fintech providers and a venture capital arm based in Frankfurt. Its subsidiaries include Funanga AG (Germany), TWBS Ltd (Malta), Calida Financial Ltd (Malta) and Surfer Rosa Ltd (Isle of Man). The Payments Group Holding (TPG) is a fast-growing, vertically integrated e-Money business. It provides proprietary closed and open loop (branded and white-labelled) prepaid payment services to hundreds of online merchants worldwide. Its highly distinct yet complimentary subsidiary companies combine to position TPG as the future market leader in embedded finance and prepaid solutions. TPG employs more than 50 people worldwide. TPG customers can use more than 550,000 point of sale cash payment stations and a global online prepaid card network to process cash and cashless online payments.
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2024 Zhangjiajie International Tourism Innovation Week shows vitality of China’s tourism industry
BEIJING, Oct. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — From October 18th to 20th, the 2024 Zhangjiajie International Tourism Innovation Week, hosted by SMART and themed ‘Integration and Expanding Frontiers’, was held in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province.
The 2024 Zhangjiajie International Tourism Innovation Week aims to expand international and domestic tourism exchanges and cooperation, showcase the charm and vitality of China’s tourism industry, facilitate the transformation and upgrading of Zhangjiajie’s tourism, and accelerate its high-quality development.
Over the course of three days, the event featured one main dialogue, 23 parallel dialogues, a food festival, and a culinary competition, were held concurrently.
Top industry professionals, entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers from the global tourism industry participated in various events such as dialogues at the main venue, closed-door meetings, and parallel sessions, and focusing on topics including talent development, rural revitalization and innovative development of health and wellness vacations, aesthetic education and research for children, tourism and urban marketing innovation, and the homestay industry.
Notably, the International Tourism Innovation Week introduced an innovative approach by locating some of its venues outdoors, utilizing the natural landscape as a backdrop and scenic spots as venues.
Simultaneously, sessions were hosted at nine different locations, including Neodalle Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan, Zhangjiajie Tianmen Cave, Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Glamour Xiangxi, Zhangjiajie Baofeng Lake Landscape Area, Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge, Zhangjiajie Seven Star Mountain Landscape Area, Zhangjiajie Yellow dragon Cave Landscape Area and Zhangjiajie 72 Unusual Houses Scenic Spot.
“Our goal is to create the largest, most forward-thinking, and widely covered cultural and creative industry event in the province, and even the country,” said the relevant responsible person from the event organizer. It is said that this International Tourism Innovation Week represents a rare opportunity for the transformation and development of Zhangjiajie’s tourism industry.
The conference invited more than 200 domestic and foreign guests, attracted more than 3,000 on-site professional visitors, and created a phenomenon platform for the exchange and cooperation of global professional tourism talents, highlighting the strong driving force of this event based in Zhangjiajie, radiating the whole country and affecting the world.
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NayaOne to Accelerate Enterprise Adoption of Generative AI in Financial Services using NVIDIA AI
LONDON, Oct. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — NayaOne, a leader in digital transformation platforms for enterprises, today announced it is driving the rapid adoption of generative AI within the financial services industry leveraging the NayaOne Digital Sandbox and NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform, including NVIDIA NIM microservices, a part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform.
Through this work, enterprises will be able to accelerate the testing, development, and deployment of generative AI solutions, driving accelerated time to value and accelerating time to market in areas such as fraud, customer experience and enterprise efficiency use cases.
Empowering Financial Institutions with Accelerated AI Adoption
Generative AI has emerged as a game-changer for financial services, enabling enterprises to analyse large data sets, generate synthetic data for risk-free experimentation, and enhance decision-making capabilities. With NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA NIM microservices integrated into the NayaOne Digital Sandbox, enterprises can now experiment with AI models at scale, significantly reducing time to market with risk free experimentation.
“The demand for AI-driven solutions in financial services is accelerating, and our collaboration with NVIDIA allows institutions to harness the power of generative AI in a controlled, secure environment,” said Karan Jain, CEO at NayaOne. “We are creating an ecosystem where financial institutions can prototype faster, more effectively leading to real business transformation and growth initiatives.”
Reducing Risk and Accelerating Time to Market
Enterprises can now test new AI solutions in NayaOne’s Digital Sandbox with NVIDIA’s software and hardware products. In this secure environment, the Sandbox also allows enterprises to experiment with NVIDIA NIM Microservices on premise and with their cloud service provider, reducing integration risks. Financial institutions will be able to run multiple proofs-of-concept simultaneously, utilising their data and evaluate the effectiveness of AI solutions at scale before full deployment.
A New Era of Innovation for Financial Services
Combining NayaOne’s extensive network and NVIDIA’s product suite offers a seamless pathway for financial institutions to stay ahead of the curve. Enterprises across the financial services ecosystem will now have access through NayaOne to NVIDIA’s high-performance computing power to accelerate model training and deployment.
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