• MYCS

  Participated · Series A · Mar 2017

  MYCS sells affordable, customisable furniture—wardrobes, sofas, shelving, tables and chairs—through an online photorealistic 3D configurator that lets customers choose design, size, material and colour. Most production is in Poland, and a Finnish partner manufactures recyclable seats for its CHAYR chair; average delivery time is about three weeks. The company was founded in 2014 and operates across Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France, with seven physical showrooms including locations in Berlin, Paris and Zurich. MYCS plans to use the new funding to expand into additional European markets, starting with the UK, Italy, Scandinavia and the Netherlands. Financially, the company reported €10 million in revenues in 2017, up from €5 million in the first year after its online platform launched. mycs is a Berlin-based online retailer that offers customizable, made-to-order furniture. Its product range includes dining, coffee and side tables, wooden office tables, bookshelves, libraries, wall units, wardrobes, sideboards, chests, highboards and TV stands. The company is led by Christoph Jung and Kachun To. mycs raised €10m in a Series A round from Global Founders Capital, TriPos, and angel investors Florian Heinemann and Uwe Horstmann. It intends to use the funds to expand its offerings.

• ShopCo Technologies

  Participated · Seed · Nov 2015

  Shop.co offers a patent-pending universal cart and checkout browser extension that lets shoppers in the US add items from any online retailer to a single unified cart. The extension enables checkout across multiple stores at once, avoids registration and login steps, and automatically applies coupons when available. Co-founded by Jay Habib and Manuel Schoebel, the company opened its German office in February 2015 and expanded to the United States a year later to prepare for a US market product launch. Shop.co closed a $7M seed round and is now valued at $27M. The product is positioned as a solution to streamline online shopping and reduce checkout friction. The company lists Düsseldorf, Germany and San Francisco, CA as bases. Shop.Co offers a browser-extension personal Buy Button that uses AI to complete purchases on any retail website without prior retailer integration. The product provides a universal cart for comparison-shopping, a global dashboard that collects receipts and store communications, and an inbox that reduces spam by centralizing order information. Payments, addresses, and preferences are stored in 128 AES‑encrypted servers and transactions are executed via end-to-end encrypted communications. The extension is available free for Chrome during public beta, with Firefox, Safari and mobile browser versions planned soon. Features include one-click buying, automatic coupon application, and the ability to connect with Amazon to preserve Prime benefits. Financially, Shop.Co has just secured additional seed funding as it launches its public beta.

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