Based 10 years in the past, Konvy is now Thailand’s prime magnificence e-commerce platform. It plans to speed up its omnichannel and worldwide distribution with a brand new Sequence A of $10 million from Insignia Ventures Companions.
Konvy was launched in 2012 by Chinese language entrepreneur QingGui Huang, who beforehand managed trend e-commerce platforms in China. It now works with greater than 1,000 manufacturers, representing SKUs of greater than 20,000. Its model portfolio contains L’Oréal, Shiseido, Sulwhasoo, Eucerin and La Roche-Posay.
“Konvy had the benefit of beginning in Thailand when there have been no actually important e-commerce gamers there on the time,” Huang instructed TechCrunch. “We’ve since leveraged our first mover benefit in Thailand to turn into a number one e-commerce participant available in the market.”
Konvy founders Leon Huang, Pornsuda Vangvidhayakul and QingHui Huang
Konvy’s objective is to assist native and worldwide magnificence manufacturers reap the benefits of two main traits. The primary is that well being and wonder purchases are a precedence spending class for Thai customers and the second is that Thailand sees excessive charges of e-commerce purchases and social media utilization, that means that younger individuals in Thailand spend a median of about two hours and 55 minutes on social media every day.
Huang mentioned he confirmed his assumptions about Thai spending on magnificence merchandise by way of conversations with manufacturers, and that drove his need to begin Konvy.
“This chance of well being and wonder being a precedence spending class for Thai customers is a perform of each demand and provide circumstances favoring this shopper conduct over the previous many years,” he mentioned. “On the provision facet, Thailand has been a producing hub for lots of worldwide manufacturers for greater than 40 years. This has spawned as effectively a thriving native business. On the demand facet, we see that Thai customers are plugged into this mindset of ‘upgrades’ in terms of well being and wonder, that’s to say, it’s not nearly accessing such merchandise however truly on the lookout for one of the best merchandise and excessive willingness to spend on the newest traits.”
Konvy faucets into the excessive price of social media utilization by creating a suggestions loop, the place engagements on its companion manufacturers’ not solely helps Konvy’s current portfolio, but in addition helps extra manufacturers sooner or later. For instance, as extra Gen Z customers purchased merchandise they noticed on TikTok in the course of the pandemic, Konvy made itself extra current on that channel.
In a press release, Insignia Ventures Companions founding managing companion Yinglan Tan mentioned, “Whereas there could also be stronger opponents from horizontal marketplaces sooner or later, we consider Konvy is finest positioned to be the market chief within the on-line magnificence phase given its long-standing model fairness, brand-centric and community-led strategy.”
