{"id":3345,"date":"2016-05-11T18:16:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T12:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/?p=3345"},"modified":"2016-05-11T22:51:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T17:21:47","slug":"quikr-takes-salosa-demand-beauty-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/?p=3345","title":{"rendered":"Quikr Takes Over Salosa, An On-demand Beauty Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"modern-quote full\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Quikr is one of the best hyperlocal on-demand service platform. The acquisition amount by Quikr remains undisclosed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Founded in September 2015 by former Procter &amp; Gamble executives Piyush Dhanuka and Anurag Nair, Salosa is an on-demand beauty startup who has been a partner with QuikrServices. Now, Quikr buys Salosa for an undisclosed amount. It has a professional team of in-house beauticians. Currently, Salosa operates in Gurgaon and few parts of Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>Quikr is a one-stop shop for buying and selling used products by enabling smooth payments and logistics on its platform. Till now, it has raised $346 million from investors including Tiger Global Management, Warburg Pincus and Norwest Venture Partners. This acquisition will push Quikr to expand into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/home-service-networks-hunt-new-areas-for-services-to-boost-their-revenue\/\">home services segment<\/a>. At present, the ever-growing beauty service market in India values around $5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Quikr has rivals like OLX, CarDekho, CarTrade, Babajob, AasanJobs and so on. It is focusing on five key business lines such as automobiles, real estate, jobs, services and customer-to-customer sales. Further, the company plans to invest Rs. 250 crore in the home service sector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Salosa is an on-demand beauty startup founded in 2015 by former Procter &amp; Gamble executives Piyush Dhanuka and Anurag Nair.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Quikr acquires Salosa for an undisclosed amount.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Quikr wishes to expand its home service segment by investing Rs. 250 crore in the future.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quikr is one of the best hyperlocal on-demand service platform. The acquisition amount by Quikr remains undisclosed. Founded in September 2015 by former Procter &amp; Gamble executives Piyush Dhanuka and Anurag Nair, Salosa is an on-demand beauty startup who has been a partner with QuikrServices. Now, Quikr buys Salosa for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-start-up"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/quikr.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3348,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions\/3348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}