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    Ingrid Lunden
    December 12th, 2012

    Samwer’s Rocket Internet Picks Up Its First Luxury Goods Investor: PPR Puts $13M Into Lamoda And Dafiti’s Holding Company

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    Another new chapter is opening up for Rocket Internet, the incubator started and run by the Samwer Brothers in Germany. The company is today announcing that PPR, luxury and sport & lifestyle group, is taking a €10 million investment in Bigfoot I, the Rocket holding company that controls Russian fashion commerce site Lamoda, South American fashion site Dafiti and also has a stake in Namshi… → Read More

    Steve O'Hear
    December 10th, 2012

    Dafiti, The Latin American Zappos, Raises Further $65M Led By Quadrant Capital Advisors

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    Following a $45m investment from J.P. Morgan Asset Management as recently as August, Dafiti, a Brazilian/Latin American Zappos, has added a further $65m to its coffers, bringing the total raised in less than two years since launch to a whopping $180m. Today’s round is led by New York-based Quadrant Capital Advisors, which committed $32m, while AB Kinnevik, Summit Partners and a number of other… → Read More