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February 19, 2013 05:52 am GMT
A Singaporean fashion retail site has secured $1.6 million (S$2 million) in funding from a government-backed group of VCs. When it launches next month, the e-tailer, called Inverted Edge, will carry a consignment of goods from Asia-Pacific designers, according to CEO, Debra Langley. The funding it received was from the Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF), Incuvest, Accel-X and four other undisclosed private investors. Incuvest is a government-appointed VC under its Technology Incubation Scheme (TIS), which offers 85 percent of a decided sum from the NRF if Incuvest comes up with the remaining 15 percent. The onlinefashionsceneis seeing a surge in retail startups mushrooming, against a backdrop of larger global players like Asos.com. In Asia, the market is further split with massive marketplaces like Taobao’s Tmall and Rakuten.Langley said thatInverted Edge doesn’t plan to compete with the likes of Asos, but hopes to differentiate byfocusing on shoppers outside of Asia keen to buy from designers in the region. She said that Inverted Edge will stick to a more high-fashion branding, and has secured some exclusive designs that it will bring on launch day. The company has a new warehouse space in the country, and isin the process of stocking it. Inverted Edge sounds like the obvious offspring of Langley’s career: prior to this, she was the Asia-Pacific president for Brussels-headquartered freight forwarder Borderlinx, and before, the president of DKNY Jeans’ international operations. Here’s a preview of what to expect, ahead of its launch in March.
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Singapore Fashion Retailer Inverted Edge Takes $1.6M Funding
A Singaporean fashion retail site has secured $1.6 million (S$2 million) in funding from a government-backed group of VCs. When it launches next month, the e-tailer, called Inverted Edge, will carry a consignment of goods from Asia-Pacific designers, according to CEO, Debra Langley. The funding it received was from the Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF), Incuvest, Accel-X and four other undisclosed private investors. Incuvest is a government-appointed VC under its Technology Incubation Scheme (TIS), which offers 85 percent of a decided sum from the NRF if Incuvest comes up with the remaining 15 percent. The onlinefashionsceneis seeing a surge in retail startups mushrooming, against a backdrop of larger global players like Asos.com. In Asia, the market is further split with massive marketplaces like Taobao’s Tmall and Rakuten.Langley said thatInverted Edge doesn’t plan to compete with the likes of Asos, but hopes to differentiate byfocusing on shoppers outside of Asia keen to buy from designers in the region. She said that Inverted Edge will stick to a more high-fashion branding, and has secured some exclusive designs that it will bring on launch day. The company has a new warehouse space in the country, and isin the process of stocking it. Inverted Edge sounds like the obvious offspring of Langley’s career: prior to this, she was the Asia-Pacific president for Brussels-headquartered freight forwarder Borderlinx, and before, the president of DKNY Jeans’ international operations. Here’s a preview of what to expect, ahead of its launch in March.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/1TRP6Vbqssw/
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