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A Little Market<\/a>, the six years old French startup where customers can buy artisanal products made in France online was acquired by Etsy<\/a>, the marketplace for vintage and hand-made goods.<\/p>\n The details of the deal remain undisclosed, yet according to the Wall Street Journal,<\/a> the valuation is less than $100 million. For the two co-founders of A Little Market, Nicolas Cohen and Nicolas d’Audiffret, who will remain in charge of the company, this acquisition is an opportunity to expand their brand globally with a company that shares their “values and engagement for the community”.<\/p>\n The acquisition is in accordance with Etsy’s wish to expand globally – which is the reason why the startup raised (another) $40 million in a round led by Index Ventures in may 2012. Etsy observed that 90% of orders coming from France were based on import and export<\/a>; on the other hand, A Little Market is purely focused on the interior French market – France being the 5th economical power and the 7th global e-commerce market: from a strategic point of view, it made sense for the two marketplaces to cooperate.<\/p>\n The acquisition of A Little Market (100k online stores) by Etsy (10 times that and $1,35billion in revenue) represents its largest and 6th acquisition – the marketplace recently acquired gadget marketplace Grand St. in April<\/a>. It seems to be another example of French entrepreneurs’ capacity to innovate and create value in the field of fashion marketplaces<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Little Market, the six years old French startup where customers can buy artisanal products made in France online was acquired by Etsy, the marketplace for vintage and hand-made goods. The details of the deal remain undisclosed, yet according to the Wall Street Journal, the valuation is less than $100 million. For the two co-founders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":25754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}