Y Combinator Backed MEMEBOX Raises $29 Million

SAN FRANCISCO, March 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — MEMEBOX, the fastest growing beauty e-commerce player in the world, today announced that it has raised $29.35 million in funding from Formation 8, Goodwater Capital, Tekton Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Pejman Mar Ventures, Y Combinator, Winklevoss Capital, FundersClub, Cowboy Ventures, and Altos Ventures, among others. MEMEBOX will use the funding to significantly expand its mobile and e-commerce offerings to China, the U.S., and Korea.

Launched in 2012 and incubated by Y Combinator, MEMEBOX is a mobile company pioneering the category of “beauty e-commerce” in both Asia and the U.S.  Leveraging the global influence of Korean beauty culture, the company is already the world’s largest online Korean beauty store with more than 1,000 brands available on its site and is quickly becoming one of the world’s most distinctive beauty platforms. In addition to introducing its own data-driven, private-label cosmetics brand in 2014, MEMEBOX launched new iOS and Android mobile apps for the Korean, Chinese and U.S. markets, reinforcing the company’s soaring growth. Since 2012, MEMEBOX has experienced over 400 percent growth, year over year, with nearly one million app downloads.

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