First Neighborhood Community Group Buying Platform Close To Nearly 20 Million Financing

The close neighbourhood group buying platform has won nearly 20 million yuan of investment in China's angelic capital. The current round of financing will be used for the creation of the model cities in Qingdao and Ji'nan, as well as the opening up of new cities.

The neighborhood is a mobile Internet data platform based on WeChat tools, with community owners as the carrier, community group buying and community media as the main business.

The core competitiveness of neighbours is in building and controlling groups. At present, it has included dual construction mode under online and offline. In terms of group control, owners will introduce nearby small housekeepers and administrators to conduct daily operation and maintenance, topic discussion and owners' life information spanmission in the owners' group.

At present, close neighbors have opened up 8 cities nationwide, and more than 2000 high-quality community owners have covered more than 420 thousand middle-class families. After financing, the nearest neighbour plan will give priority to the expansion of 10-12 cities, and it is expected that the layout of 100 large and medium-sized cities will be completed by 2020.

There are two types of corporate services: one is community electric business, the other is community media. The former serves community owners through cooperation promotion mode and self operated electricity supplier mode, and the latter is also based on WeChat group communication within the group. Customers who have served nearby media include Haier, steam car, walon nuts, Dong'e donkey hide gelatin and other famous brands.

Lv Pengliang, founder and CEO of near neighbor, started his own business in 2001. He founded Hotel and travel card. Sun Zhongtao, partner Sun Zhongtao, founded Internet Co with an annual turnover of 200 million yuan. The company has more than 30 employees.

The investor, Hua Yao capital, is an important fund based on Shandong. It focuses on three fields, including TMT, medical health and cultural consumption. The scale of funds directly and participates in management is over ten billion yuan, among which many funds are shared by the state guidance fund.