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🚨 192% Growth SPAC 🚨
💸 Katapult provides leasing solution for e-commerce websites
🔥 It enables non-prime customers to lease durable goods online
🚩ALL founders left and $CURO owns 50% of Katapult
⁉️ What is hidden behind the $FSRV SPAC ⁉️
Here is an EASY thread 👇
Katapult was founded in 2012 and was initially called Zibby and operated by Cognical
💸 By 2015, it had raised $ 10m in equity and debt from VC funds such as Tribeca Venture Partners and Blumberg
Cognical was founded by 👇
Brandon Wright - a Cornell MBA who later founded @payfully
Ashutosh Saxena - a PhD in AI from Stanford (awards: https://t.co/YfViWWXqru)
Chinedu Eleanya - a serial entrepreneur who later founded @GetMulberry which sells extended warranty to shoppers
Zibby was a “Lease-To-Own” service designed for durable goods & products (furniture, appliances, electronics)
1️⃣ When customers purchase an item online, Zibby retains the rights to this item
2️⃣ Zibby rents the item to the customer
3️⃣ The customer can decide to purchase the full ownership rights of the item at any time
This model proved successful and Zibby was incubated by Cornell
💸 Katapult provides leasing solution for e-commerce websites
🔥 It enables non-prime customers to lease durable goods online
🚩ALL founders left and $CURO owns 50% of Katapult
⁉️ What is hidden behind the $FSRV SPAC ⁉️
Here is an EASY thread 👇
Katapult was founded in 2012 and was initially called Zibby and operated by Cognical
💸 By 2015, it had raised $ 10m in equity and debt from VC funds such as Tribeca Venture Partners and Blumberg
Cognical was founded by 👇
Brandon Wright - a Cornell MBA who later founded @payfully
Ashutosh Saxena - a PhD in AI from Stanford (awards: https://t.co/YfViWWXqru)
Chinedu Eleanya - a serial entrepreneur who later founded @GetMulberry which sells extended warranty to shoppers
Zibby was a “Lease-To-Own” service designed for durable goods & products (furniture, appliances, electronics)
1️⃣ When customers purchase an item online, Zibby retains the rights to this item
2️⃣ Zibby rents the item to the customer
3️⃣ The customer can decide to purchase the full ownership rights of the item at any time
This model proved successful and Zibby was incubated by Cornell
🚨 BUY ALERT $CDON +23% 🚨
$CDON was founded in 1999 and was part of the Qliro group until September 2020
⭐️ It was then spun out at started operating as a fully independent retailer
🌐 It is now a leading e-commerce player, but is still valued as a brick & mortar retailer
The company generated most of its revenue from its own sales (first party sales)
🛍 It is now moving towards an “e-commerce platform” / marketplace positioning where merchants retail products and send these to clients
$CDON is the leading e-commerce player in the Nordics, it counts 2m active customers and over 1,300 merchants
💸 It retails over 8m products and scored a Gross Merchandise Value of SEK 2.4B ($ 288m) in the 12 months leading to Q3 ’20
$CDON belongs to a cohort of local e-commerce player which have successfully managed to fight $AMZN’s dominance
🇳🇱 https://t.co/jUdtPRTkdU in the Netherlands is the leading e-commerce player with 111m website visits (+30% in H2 ’20) vs 33m for $AMZN (+67% in H2 ’20)
🇫🇷 https://t.co/r9rdGvrx9d in France is the N°2 e-commerce player with 84m visits (+21% in H2 ’20) vs 270m for $AMZN (+42% in H2 ’20)
🇸🇪 https://t.co/m8OyFnNYNJ in Sweden scored 7m visits (+27% in H2 ’20) vs 10.3m for $AMZN (entered market in 2020)
$CDON was founded in 1999 and was part of the Qliro group until September 2020
⭐️ It was then spun out at started operating as a fully independent retailer
🌐 It is now a leading e-commerce player, but is still valued as a brick & mortar retailer
The company generated most of its revenue from its own sales (first party sales)
🛍 It is now moving towards an “e-commerce platform” / marketplace positioning where merchants retail products and send these to clients
$CDON is the leading e-commerce player in the Nordics, it counts 2m active customers and over 1,300 merchants
💸 It retails over 8m products and scored a Gross Merchandise Value of SEK 2.4B ($ 288m) in the 12 months leading to Q3 ’20
$CDON belongs to a cohort of local e-commerce player which have successfully managed to fight $AMZN’s dominance
🇳🇱 https://t.co/jUdtPRTkdU in the Netherlands is the leading e-commerce player with 111m website visits (+30% in H2 ’20) vs 33m for $AMZN (+67% in H2 ’20)
🇫🇷 https://t.co/r9rdGvrx9d in France is the N°2 e-commerce player with 84m visits (+21% in H2 ’20) vs 270m for $AMZN (+42% in H2 ’20)
🇸🇪 https://t.co/m8OyFnNYNJ in Sweden scored 7m visits (+27% in H2 ’20) vs 10.3m for $AMZN (entered market in 2020)