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Snapdeal allegedly seeking USD 400 mln investment for a fresh acquisition

Tuesday 17 February 2015 10:07 CET | News

Snapdeal, an Indian online retailer, is allegedly negotiating the terms of a USD 400 million fund raise in order to make a further acquisition in the ecommerce space.

The investor, allegedly involved in Snapdeals funding, is a US Hedge Fund company. In 2014, Snapdeal raised USD 627 million from Japanese telecom and internet corporation Softbank. iamwire.com reports.

Snapdeal had also secured USD 100 million in May 2014 and received an undisclosed amount from Ratan Tata in August 2014. Snapdeal is also targeting to increase its total number of sellers to one million from the current 100,000 by 2018.


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