{"id":26167,"date":"2014-07-29T14:37:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T12:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=26167"},"modified":"2014-07-29T14:37:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T12:37:01","slug":"toktoktok-rumored-raising-e20-million-round-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2014\/07\/toktoktok-rumored-raising-e20-million-round-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"On-Demand delivery service TokTokTok raising upwards of \u20ac20 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/tok.png\" alt=\"tok\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seems like Paris fundraising rounds are getting bigger by the quarter &#8211; Algolia&#8217;s crushing $2.8M Seed Round<a title=\"European Ridesharing Blablacar raises $100M led by Index Ventures\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2014\/07\/02\/european-ridesharing-blablacar-raises-100m-led-index-ventures\/\">, Blablacar&#8217;s monster $100 Million round<\/a>, and now, Rude Baguette has learned, On-Demand marketplace <a href=\"http:\/\/toktoktok.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TokTokTok<\/a> is working on closing a round upwards of $20 Million. After hiring <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2014\/07\/15\/tok-tok-tok-hires-former-carrefour-cfo-eric-reiss-to-head-the-european-delivery-startup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carrefour&#8217;s former CFO<\/a>\u00a0to lead the company earlier this year, the startup is looking to go global, fast &#8211; and in order to do that, the Carrefour CFO, along with other investors, will be raising the necessary capital to attack other major cities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The startup, compared to the US PostMates, allows users to order anything, any time &#8211; similar to Uber, TokTokTok &amp; Postmates manage a fleet of &#8216;runners&#8217; (bicycylists, rollerbladers, or Segway-drivers, even) who receive your request and go purchase what you want from wherever they can.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/867954.jpg\" alt=\"867954\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>TokTokTok runs on two modesl &#8211; a Cashback model, where they make deals with restaurants and other retail chains that allow them to pick things up without paying and then pay them on a monthly basis, and\u00a0a direct payment method.\u00a0It would seem that TokTokTok&#8217;s stats are going through the roof &#8211; how else could they seduce the CFO of a company known for its ability to scale logistics, supply &amp; demand? &#8211; with some reports saying the company&#8217;s growth is growing at 60% week over week, with the company potentially making 100s of deliveries per day.<\/p>\n<p>For now, TokTokTok hasn&#8217;t made any of their figures public &#8211; co-founder Serge Alleyne denied to comment when reached out to &#8211; however, keep a close eye on a company that is looking to do for delivery what Uber did for transport.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"tok tok tok - Vos envies, maintenant\" width=\"801\" height=\"451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bj_tPP2pZRI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like Paris fundraising rounds are getting bigger by the quarter &#8211; Algolia&#8217;s crushing $2.8M Seed Round, Blablacar&#8217;s monster $100 Million round, and now, Rude Baguette has learned, On-Demand marketplace TokTokTok is working on closing a round upwards of $20 Million. After hiring Carrefour&#8217;s former CFO\u00a0to lead the company earlier this year, the startup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":26185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26167","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\/26167","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=26167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}