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Melonn raises $20m in Series A funding round led by QED Investors

By Edlyn Cardoza

February 07, 2022

  • Amazon
  • Colombia
  • COVID-19
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Melonn, QED Investors, e-Commerce, Latin America, Colombia, Mexico City, USA, SMEs, FedEx, DHL, Amazon, COVID-19, FinTechMelonn has announced the closing of its $20 million Series A round led by QED Investors. Global Founders Capital (GFC) and Alter Global also joined the round, together with existing investors including VC funds NFX, Pear, Wollef (formerly Jaguar Ventures) and high-profile angel investors including top VC partners and LatAm startups´ founders. In less than a year, Melonn has raised around $24 million.

Melonn intends to become the #1 ally of small and medium e-commerce businesses in LatAm, helping them solve the most challenging part of the future e-commerce: the backend. The company offers an end-to-end same or next-day fulfilment solution with an easy-to-use e-commerce backend technology platform fully developed in-house. With Melonn, any e-commerce business will sell its products across multiple channels, from Amazon to Instagram, and deliver them almost anywhere in the region.

Melonn’s proprietary tech platform guides sellers through a simple and highly automated onboarding process, seamlessly connecting their different e-commerce channels. Next, sellers ship their inventory to urban fulfilment centres near their end consumers. Melonn quickly takes care of the picking, packing and delivery so that end-consumers receive their orders on the same or next day, also taking care of returns.

Additionally, Melonn works with a range of transportation providers, incumbents (like FedEx or DHL) and last-mile startups to reduce shipping times and costs. Finally, sellers can manage and monitor the entire process from Melonn’s platform from wherever they are, accessing data analytics tools to make better operational and sales and marketing decisions.

Speaking on the fundraise, Andres Gómez, CEO and Co-Founder, commented, “Melonn is solving a massive pain point for the huge, fast-growing and highly underserved market of e-commerce SMBs. We’ve been able to build a diverse and synergic team of extremely talented individuals with deep expertise in e-commerce, logistics and tech, which has enabled us to build a winning product with strong market fit. And we’ve been very fortunate to have support from some of the best seed-stage funds in the world, and we’re now extremely grateful to add two of the best Series A+ funds such as QED and GFC. They not only add vast expertise in key topics like e-commerce enablement and fintech, but they’re great partners and mentors that will help us scale successfully and that we really look forward working with.”

“We are thrilled to partner with the world-class team at Melonn as the company builds out the e-commerce infrastructure for small and medium sellers across Latin America,” added QED Investors Partner Mike Packer. “The recent explosion of the market only reinforces the need. Melonn makes scaling easier for its clients, solving very real constraints across channels and fulfillment. As Melonn continues to expand the platform, the company will enable the next generation of LatAm e-commerce businesses.”

Until a few years ago, LatAm was considered a late adopter of e-commerce. But in the past three to five years and, more recently, with the impact of COVID-19, things have changed dramatically. Today, LatAm is one of the regions with the fastest-growing e-commerce market estimated at more than $100 billion, expected to double by 2025 and close to a trillion-dollar market in the next couple of decades. More than 80% of the market comprises small and medium businesses/sellers.

In this landscape and in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Melonn was founded in November 2020 to disrupt how e-commerce is made in LatAm. A group of six friends with vast experience in logistics, ecommerce, tech, and data science: Andrés Gomez (CEO), Alejandro Celis (CPO), Andrés Archila (COO), Felipe Jaramillo (CTO), Sebastián Román (Director of Data Science) and Daniel Castrillón (Director of Software Engineering & DevOps). In only one year, the company has launched five distribution centres in three cities across Colombia and one more in Mexico City, employing more than 180 people.

Melonn aims to use the new funding to grow the tech and product teams to strengthen the platform and develop adjacent products, including embedded FinTech. The company is also planning to scale up to commercial capabilities and increase its network of urban fulfilment centres to offer efficient same/next day fulfilment across more and more cities in the region.

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