• Packworks

  Led · Seed · Jul 2022

  Packworks offers a B2B fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) marketplace and a suite of digital tools tailored to sari-sari stores and the wider supply chain. Its product suite includes the Sari.PH Pro app (pricing tools, inventory management, sales and revenue tracking, and access to working capital loans) and Sari IQ, a business intelligence tool using real-time and historical consumer expenditure data. The company has expanded into a comprehensive platform serving small store owners through to wholesalers, distributors, and FMCG partners. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in the Philippines, Packworks aims to improve efficiency and profitability for neighborhood retailers. In July 2024 the company secured PHP 3.5M (approximately $60,000) in funding from the Department of Science and Technology through the PCIEERD Startup Grant Fund. Packworks will use the funding to develop an AI-powered precision marketing model to deliver customized product and promotion recommendations to sari-sari stores. Packworks provides a mobile ERP platform called The Pack: SuperStore app that helps sari-sari owners manage inventory, bookkeeping, data collection, supply ordering and access to financial products and e-payments. The app is designed for low bandwidth use and aims to lower costs for store owners by offering cheaper supplies and reduced interest costs. The startup plans to expand The Pack into a broader super app by increasing platform offerings, optimizing store operations, enabling funding access, and building an open platform for financial institutions and brands. It also intends to create a department to engage sari-sari stores and provide additional partner services. Packworks says it has onboarded 150,000 stores with an estimated 9,000 SKUs and targets 220,000 stores by the end of 2022 and roughly 500,000–550,000 stores by the end of 2023. Financially, the company says this year is pivotal as it shifts revenue from project billing with partners to performance billing to capture transactional value from its store network.

• Great Deals E-Commerce

  Led · Series B · May 2021

  Founded in 2014, Great Deals is an e-commerce enabler that helps brands like Abbott, L’Oréal and Unilever build online retail operations in the Philippines. It offers end-to-end services including digital content production, marketing campaign coordination and management of marketplace listings across platforms such as Lazada, Shopee, Zalora, Zilingo, Shopify and Magento. The company also serves clients including Nestlé, Samsonite, GSK, Bayer and Fila. Great Deals currently operates only in the Philippines but plans to expand regionally next year and aims to increase penetration outside the Greater Manila Area. The startup raised $30 million in a Series B led by logistics firm Fast Group and will use part of the capital to build an automated fulfillment center. The strategic investment from Fast Group, which has a fleet of more than 2,500 vehicles and a 90,000-store distribution network, is intended to bolster supply-chain capacity and enable more Instant Commerce deliveries under one hour. Great Deals E-commerce Corp is described in the article as a Philippines-based e-commerce enabler. The company was founded by Alibaba eFounders fellow Steve Sy. Philippines-focused private equity firm Navegar has invested $12 million in Great Deals. The article characterizes the business as a local e-commerce enabler but does not elaborate on specific products, services, or future plans. No revenue, user, or other operating metrics were reported in the article. The report also does not disclose the financing instrument or the use of proceeds.

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