The Berlin online fashion retailer Zalando SE has joined the e-commerce service provider Saleor. Together with the investment house Target Global, Zalando led a financing round that brought the IT company a total of eight million US dollars (7.4 million euros), Saleor announced on Wednesday.
Founded in Poland in 2020, the company offers its partner brands an e-commerce platform solution. She now wants to use the fresh funds to drive growth, expand the partner program and strengthen her core product.
According to the announcement, Zalando decided to make the investment due, among other things, to the growing popularity of Saleor among international brands. The company has now been able to win Lush and Breitling as partners. The German online retailer now wants to examine possibilities for collaboration on e-commerce projects, Saleor said.
In this context, Jan Bartels, SVP B2B at Zalando, particularly referred to its own e-commerce platform solution ZEOS, which was introduced in the fall. “Here we see great similarities with Saleor’s vision, offering and knowledge, which can also help us to further expand our capabilities,” he said in a statement.