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Zilingo is a fashion, beauty and lifestyle marketplace, with its headquarters in Singapore. The company aims to help small fashion and beauty businesses in Southeast Asian countries to increase their global reach through e-commerce.

Overview
Zilingo was established in October 2015 by Ankiti Bose and Dhruv Kapoor.

As of 2017, Zilingo is reported to have raised $27 million from funding rounds held in 2015, 2016 and 2017 and the major investors include Sequoia Capital India, Burda Principal Investments, Susquehanna International Group and Venturra.

As of June, the platform’s product line has fashion, beauty and lifestyle products from around 5000 small retail enterprises from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia,Vietnam, Korea, Cambodia, Thailand, and Singapore.

As of September 2017, Zilingo is said to be exporting eight countries and has seller hubs in Hong Kong, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Thailand.

Technology
According to TechInAsia reports, Zilingo is the first mobile-online marketplace, which allows the merchants to list the inventory, set their prices and fulfill online orders. The major merchant services offered by this platform include payment options, order tracking, refund collection, and consultation services on the pricing strategy, and these services are said to be free of cost.

In 2016, the platform began using Vue.ai’s artificial intelligence to incorporate visual search and personalization features to its mobile application.

This app is also said to have a chat option which allows the customers to get in touch with the merchants, directly.