An
anchor store
, in English, is "a store that attracts visitors to the shopping streets"
.
It is to give back to small independent traders a capacity of attraction that Pierre-Louis Lacoste, Nicolas d'Audiffret, Nicolas Cohen and Mathieu Alengrin, e-commerce specialists through Etsy or Vestiaire Collective, have created the place Ankorstore market two years ago.
It didn't take long for her to become a unicorn, that is, a company valued at over $ 1 billion.
The marketplace has just raised 250 million euros from Bond and Tiger Global funds, with the participation of Eurazeo, Coatue, Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, GFC, Alven and Aglae.
Ankorstore had already raised 84 million euros in May 2021. Since then, its workforce has grown from 40 to 400 people.
Simplify procurement
"Many companies have endeavored to facilitate the collection of merchants or even the management of their online store,
" notes Nicolas Cohen, co-president ...
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