StockX Archives - Crunchbase News /tag/stockx/ Data-driven reporting on private markets, startups, founders, and investors Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:13:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 /wp-content/uploads/cb_news_favicon-150x150.png StockX Archives - Crunchbase News /tag/stockx/ 32 32 Sneaker Reseller StockX’s Next Round May Up Valuation To $1B /venture/sneaker-reseller-stockxs-next-round-may-up-valuation-to-1b/ Mon, 22 Apr 2019 15:09:41 +0000 http://news.crunchbase.com/?p=18261 Sneaker culture is real.

, an online marketplace for buying and selling sneakers and other items, is “in advanced talks” to raise money in a round that will value the company at at least $1 billion, according to .

Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily

Late-stage investor  is the anticipated lead investor and is also rumored to be participating in the financing.

Recode didn’t say how much StockX is raising. But according to StockX’s Crunchbase profile, it’s raised $50 million in its lifetime so far. Most recently, it brought in last September in a Series B led by and . Other investors include Salesforce chairman and model , among others.

The four-year-old Detroit company has been described as the “because prices for the products that are posted by sellers on its site fluctuate depending on how in demand the particular item is at the time. StockX keeps a percentage of every sale, ranging from between 9.5 to 14.3 percent. It reportedly had revenue of , as of last September.

, a former IBM consultant, and , who founded Quicken Loans and is also an investor, launched the marketplace in 2015 with an initial focus on sneakers. The site has since expanded to include other brand name fashion apparel and accessories. Prior to starting StockX, Luber – a self-described longtime – had founded , a “sneakerhead data” company.

In general, online resale marketplaces are pretty hot these days. Earlier this month, we wrote about how fashion resale marketplace Poshmark was reportedly eyeing an IPO.  

Sneakers, in particular, are attracting investor interest as companies like StockX ramp up hiring. (The Detroit News reported that StockX was planningover the next year after its last round of funding.)

Case in point: In February we reported how Culver City-based , a fast-growing marketplace for high-end sneakers, raised $100 million from the retail chain. The deal was part of a broader plan for the two retailers to combine efforts across digital and physical platforms.

Illustration:

]]>
/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/shoes.png