We’ve just raised $ 1 mln to change the world of e-commerce!
This is what our homepage looked like, a year ago
Tinypay.me is something that started out a year ago as a tiny but exciting idea. The initial idea was just to make it very easy to sell something online. And so we’ve started working on it during the nights and weekends, while working on our regular daytime jobs. After 2 months of developing, we’ve just launched it – without preparing any business or marketing plans – and decided to see if people would like the service. And they did, within weeks, we were covered by media all over the world. After seeing all these positive responses, we’ve decided to move forward with this project and build it out to be something ever better and easier – while always keeping our initial goal of simplicity in mind.
Today, we’ve reached a major milestone in the history of our young company. We’re very excited to announce that we’ve just raised $ 1 million from Aksoy Internet Ventures (AIV) in order to achieve our dream of changing the world of e-commerce. AIV is the major driver behind the success story of Sahibinden.com, with 20 million users the second largest classifieds site in Europe. While we’ve been approached by several known American and European investors during last year the experience, enthusiasm and drive of this Turkish investor really stood out and we’re convinced that with their help, we can really put a dent in the e-commerce universe.
Taner Aksoy, the chairman of the investment group, also had some nice things to say about us: “We are proud to support Tinypay.me with our vision and experience as well as funding and we are very excited being part of this game changing team in e-commerce. We are certain that Tinypay.me will be a big hit globally”. Aksoy Internet Ventures actively seeks out and makes early stage investment in promising Internet companies regionally and globally.
With already thousands of enthusiastic sellers on our platform, Tinypay.me has become a very cool place to put something up for sale but we’ve got more in store than just being the easiest way to sell. We’ve been working for the last months on a couple of exciting new features and we will announce them very soon. In fact, we’re working on such an amount of cool new stuff, that we’d really could use some help from good and excited developers who are willing to work with us. So, if you’re interested in changing the world, you should definitely check out our job listings.
Of course, we’re going to celebrate this big news by throwing a big party in San Francisco this Saturday with our friends from Rootmusic and Fighter. So if you want to come party with us, reach out and we’ll send you an invite. Or, if you’re more into drinking beer with a lot of cool friends, we’re also sponsoring some beer and pizza next Thursday at our cool new office at Rocketspace.
We thank all of our users for their support and look forward to a bright future!
Melvin, Richard and Valentin - The Tinypay Team
Also it was great to meet S Sriram, the genius behind BrowseEggs. That’s why we decided to give BrowserEggs first prize in using Tinypay API, so guys congratz with the 3D camera!
