Bazaar raises $70 million Sequence B led by Dragoneer and Tiger to construct an OS for conventional retail in Pakistan 

Karachi-headquartered B2B ecommerce and fintech startup Bazaar has raised $70 million in a Sequence B spherical led by Dragoneer Funding Group and Tiger World, it introduced right this moment. The spherical that comes simply six months after Bazaar’s $30 million Sequence A was additionally joined by current buyers, together with Indus Valley Capital, Defy.vc, Acrew Capital, Wavemaker Companions, B&Y Enterprise Companions, and Zayn Capital. It takes Bazaar’s complete financing to over $100 million making it one of many best-funded startups within the nation.

Based lower than two years in the past, Bazaar is constructing an working system for conventional retail in Pakistan. Its present choices embrace a B2B ecommerce market that permits retailers (primarily grocery shops) to obtain stock for his or her shops, a service provider software program product Straightforward Khata, and a short-term working capital financing product Bazaar Credit score that was launched lately. Bazaar’s market is serving retailers in 21 cities and cities of Pakistan via greater than a dozen success facilities. The corporate is including 3-4 new cities and cities to its last-mile community each month and is on target to ascertain nation’s largest tech-enabled last-mile footprint by the top of the yr, it stated in an announcement.

Straightforward Khata, the service provider software program product by Bazaar that helps retailers digitize their data, has onboarded 2.4 million companies from 500 cities and cities within the nation. It additionally serves as a instrument to accumulate prospects as the corporate launches new cities throughout the nation. Bazaar Credit score, firm’s newest providing that was launched lately has already supplied hundreds of digital loans to its retailers with one hundred pc reimbursement. Its proprietary credit score mannequin incorporates buyer knowledge from each its market and service provider software program merchandise.

Christian Jensen, Associate at Dragoneer Funding Group, commenting on the funding stated, “We’re thrilled to assist Bazaar’s imaginative and prescient of constructing an end-to-end commerce and fintech platform for tens of millions of unbanked and offline retailers in Pakistan. Bazaar’s tempo of geographic growth and new product improvement is a testomony to the uncommon expertise and tradition Hamza and Saad have cultivated at Bazaar.”

John Curtius, Associate at Tiger World Administration, stated, “We consider that Pakistan is at an inflection level in its tech ecosystem improvement. Bazaar is tapping
into the huge service provider alternative and is main the cost within the nation. We’re excited to again
their unimaginable workforce and phenomenal development in such a brief span of time.”

Hamza Jawaid and Saad Jangda, the founders of Bazaar, stated, “We’re humbled and excited to proceed on the trail to create a generation-defining story for Pakistan. With important backing of two of the biggest enterprise development funds on the planet, we consider this may proceed to alter the narrative on the nation and encourage numerous extra and greater tales in close to future. It is a results of the belief and partnership of our colleagues, suppliers and most significantly our prospects – the small retailers who’re the spine of our economic system.”

Bazaar plans to make use of the most recent funds to increase into extra cities throughout Pakistan, launch new market classes, scale its lending choices, and speed up new product improvement.

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