Oh My Glasses Raises Seed Round Aiming Zappos For Glasses / TechCrunch Japan

Mr Taddy launched closed beta of Oh My Glasses, EC sites for glasses. Also it revealed that it raised capital from B Dash Ventures, ImproVista and individual investors. The amount is not disclosed, but it is considered to be several dozen million yen. ...

TechCrunch Japan 12/15/2011 [jp]

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• Vertical EC is appearing recently in Japan as well following success of Zappos. The recent fundraising case of such EC is by The Jade Group operating Locondo.jp, a shoes online store, which raised 700 million yen in this November.
• http://www.ohmyglasses.jp/