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🎨 The Economics of Creativity: Who Gets Paid and Why via NFX. Technology favours some tech skills over others. There's a broader historical context of how creators get paid. NFX unpacks it.

🔮 What retailers will focus on in 2022 via RetailBrew. Retailers to focus on the supply-chain, loyalty and tech solutions to help employees manage tasks efficiently. Buy-Now-Pay-Later to be introduced in more physical locations following its success in e-commerce.

🛒 Gopuff to Launch Private Label Products as DoorDash Rival Heads Toward IPO via The Information. Gopuff plans to launch a variety of food products and household items. It will also introduce private label prescription medication and medical testing devices.

🌽 Online channel builds share of U.S. grocery market in 2021 via SupermarketNews. Online grocery sales reached nearly $98 billion in the United States alone. In 2021, online grocery accounted for 13% annualized share of total grocery spending.

🍕 Deliveroo Plans to Open a Pizza Joint in the UK via PYMNTS. The company seeks to understand the pain points and bottlenecks that restaurants face so it can serve them better on its marketplace.

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Select deals from last week:

🇦🇹 GoStudent, an Astrian online tutoring platform, more than doubled its valuation since June last year following a €300 million Series D round. Launched in 2016, GoStudent has grown to 1000 employees and over 10K tutors. The new funding will be used towards product expansion through M&A, market share growth and international expansion.

🇺🇸 OpenSea, a SF-based diverse NFT marketplace, became a decacorn following a $300 million Series C round. Its valuation increased 8.7x since July 2021 to $13.3 billion. OpenSea inteds to accelerate product development and invest in customer support. It also will invest in the broader NFT community by directly backing creators, developers and NFT evangelists. While OpenSea caters to diverse NFT types, others such as Eternal and Sorare have taken a vertically specialized approach. Actually, Sorare is almost 2x more funded than OpenSea. There are 100+ other NFT marketplaces.

Other notable marketplace deals from the last week: 

🇬🇧 Gousto, a London-based meal kit delivery company, raised €133 million at €1.5 billion valuation. The deal includes €88 million in equity from SoftBank and €44 million of debt from Barclays and HSBC. With the new funding, Gousto will build its automated fulfillment facility to increase capacity by 40%. As we've written before, there have been winners and losers among meal kit delivery startups. Gousto seems to be in the former category.

🇫🇷 Back Market, a refurbished products marketplace, secured $510 million at $5.7 billion valuation.

🇲🇾 Carsome, a Malaysia-based used car e-commerce platform, $290 million at $1.7 billion valuation to fund its Southeast Asia expansion. 

🇫🇷 Ankorstore, a French Amazon competitor, became a unicorn following a $283 million in Series C funding. 

Read up on all the latest marketplaces deals in Dealroom.co

Exits:

🇺🇸 Turo,  a SF-based car sharing marketplace, announced it has filed an S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It intends to list on the New York Stock Exchange. Turo was valued at $1.0 billion in the last private round in February 2020.

Read up on all the latest marketplaces exits in Dealroom.co

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