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The international platform for reservation services collected 49.3 million PLN. The project was completed by British Piton Capital and Sebastian Kulczyk
Three years after the launch of the booking platform, Booksy has succeeded
enter several foreign markets. Approx. 70 percent makes sales
currently in the United States, the rest mainly in Poland,
Great Britain and Brazil, and to a lesser extent also Ireland, Spain
and South Africa. Thanks to the platform founded by Stefan Batory and
Konrad Howard (standing behind the creation of iTaxi) only in May
2018, services valued at 277.5 million zlotys were completed. The money went to
hairdressers, barbers, beauticians and massage therapists who use it,
personal trainers, etc.
Investors also believed in the continued development of the project. The company has got from
they are only 49.3 million PLN. In the so-called round B series have activated:
British Fund Piton Capital, OpenOcean, Zach Coelius and Sebastian
Kulczyk (through the venture capital fund Manta Ray). First of all,
the so-called. seed, the round of investment has been completed exactly three
years ago, and since then, Booksy has been recapitalized over 80 million
zł. Stefan Batory does not say "stop" next year
plans to join the C round in which they can already enter the game
the money allowing a more intensive development of the project abroad.
Until then, the company will work to accelerate market growth,
which is already present, by increasing the sales parameters and
marketing. It will also focus on project development from the side
by introducing artificial systems into the platform
intelligence and machine learning. This will allow automatic analysis
customer behavior and create a more accurate offer for them. she
important especially in the context of the most competitive activity
market – in the United States, however – as Stefan Batory points out –
still young and still have a lot of space to manage.
– The start-up benefits from the network effect and we think that it has a chance to become
the largest sales platform in the beauty and health sector
in the United States and around the world – says Andrin Bachmann, co-founder and
partner at Piton Capital, also supporting Booksy in the previous round
investment.
Currently, the company has offices in six locations around the world and employs more than
200 people Recently she uploaded Marcin Szałek group, earlier
manager in Poland, including Groupon and Dawanda, who is helping to
strengthen Booksy's position in the global market with an estimated value
150 billion USD. © Ⓟ
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