Summary
Many VC investors perceive dark stores — the foundation for 15-minute grocery delivery startups — as a new business model with unproven unit economics and limited scaling potential. We are more optimistic. CM Ventures is an early investor in Buyk (we co-led their seed round) — so we obviously have skin in the game, but we have been following the model for quite some time and have extensively researched and benchmarked the space, having spoken with more than 30 emerging players.
In this article, we answer the main questions about dark stores, drawing our conclusions primarily from data on the…
Hi, I’m Daniil from СM Ventures👋🏻. Our team has spent the past couple of months digging into the headless e-commerce vertical and have decided to share our key findings on why headless stack looks like the next big thing in website building. We are going to share with you the six fundamental drivers behind its future growth. We have created a map (mostly headless e-commerce, but not exclusively*) on which we have identified and grouped all associated companies into 3 main components: CMS, commerce and frontend. Attached is a link to our spreadsheet listing each company with additional data (stage…
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