What is Sociolla? Sociolla Review

history

Christopher Madiam, John Rasjid and Chrisanti Indiana co-founded Sociolla in March 2015. Sociolla was originally an online marketplace for beauty products, and three years later it launched the Beauty Journal feature.

SOCO is the abbreviation of Sociolla Connect, this social platform can help Sociolla realize its vision of changing the beauty industry.

Financing

In September 2015, Sociolla received a seven-figure Series A financing led by Venturra Capital, with participation from East Ventures and Steve Christian, an angel investor of Indonesian portal KapanLagi Network.

In January 2017, Sociolla and istyle partnered to secure a Series B round of funding led by Istyle, a fashion company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Japan, which owns the popular Japanese beauty website @cosme.

In May 2018, Sociolla received US$12 million in financing, led by East Ventures' new fund EV Growth. Participants included Indonesian venture capital firm Sinar Mas Digital Ventures, Yahoo Japan's venture capital arm YJ Capital, Japanese beauty product e-commerce company istyle, and a group of undisclosed Singaporean institutional investors.

References

• 1. Indonesian beauty e-commerce platform Sociolla received US$12 million in financing: Southeast Intelligence Agency [cited on 2018-05-20]