{"id":133131,"date":"2022-08-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-bakkal-receives-funding-to-accelerate-growth\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T08:10:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T12:10:22","slug":"bakkal-recibe-financiamiento-para-acelerar-su-crecimiento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/bakkal-recibe-financiamiento-para-acelerar-su-crecimiento\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakkal Receives Funding to Accelerate Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">PLEASANTON, Calif.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 11, 2022<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Bakkal Corporation today announced a seed round investment of <span class=\"xn-money\">$3 million<\/span> from new and existing investors.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg1700left\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"width: 100%; text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg1700left\" title=\"Bakkal - Your favorite ethnic groceries delivered to your door.\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1873918\/Bakkal_Corporation_AppStore.jpg\" alt=\"Bakkal - Your favorite ethnic groceries delivered to your door.\" align=\"middle\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Bakkal is a B2B2C marketplace and last mile delivery platform for ethnic goods founded in 2021.The company aims to reshape local corner stores by providing them strategic business tools and services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe small grocery stores are a key part of our community and culture. Consumers from diverse ethnic backgrounds have access to healthy and affordable food through these organizations. Ethnic grocery options deserve more than a tiny corner of the grocery store,&#8221; said Bakkal Founder &amp; CEO <span class=\"xn-person\">Murat Karslioglu<\/span>. &#8220;We are digitizing the ethnic grocery supply chain and making it easier for small local stores to source inventory. By helping high quality and international brands stock their products reliably at stores, we increase affordable food options.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bakkal&#8217;s new round increased the valuation of the company to <span class=\"xn-money\">$20M<\/span>. Bakkal launched its services in <span class=\"xn-location\">Los Angeles<\/span> in late 2021 and expanded to Bay Area, <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span> in early 2022.<\/p>\n<p>New resources will help Bakkal to fund technology development, grow its engineering team and expand marketing activities.<\/p>\n<p>Bakkal apps are available on both <u><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3614917-1&amp;h=162955024&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.getbakkal.com%2Fdownload&amp;a=Apple+App+Store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple <span class=\"xn-person\">App Store<\/span><\/a><\/u>\u00a0 and <u><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3614917-1&amp;h=322933644&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.getbakkal.com%2Fdownload&amp;a=Google+Play+Store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Google Play Store<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>BAKKAL\u00a0Press Kit:<a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3614917-1&amp;h=491089569&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fpr.report%2FBLP48NFy&amp;a=%C2%A0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u00a0<\/a>[<u><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3614917-1&amp;h=3113858371&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fgetbakkal.com%2Fpress-kit&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fgetbakkal.com%2Fpress-kit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/getbakkal.com\/press-kit<\/a><\/u>]<\/p>\n<p>Stay up-to-date on all things <i>Bakkal<\/i> and shop-local-culture on <u><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3614917-1&amp;h=1445341025&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FGetBakkal&amp;a=Facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook<\/a><\/u>, <u><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3614917-1&amp;h=3037856215&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FGetBakkal&amp;a=Twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a><\/u> and <u><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3614917-1&amp;h=3256575060&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fgetbakkal%2F&amp;a=Instagram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<div class=\"wcag-arialevel-3\" style=\"display: block; font-size: 1.17em; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;\" role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"3\"><b>About BAKKAL<\/b><\/div>\n<p>Bakkal is an ethnic grocery marketplace in the U.S. The company provides services to brands on its platform to market international products to the U.S market. Bakkal has offices in <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Istanbul<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Kyrgyzstan<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Tel Aviv<\/span>. Visit us online at GetBakkal.com.\u00a9 2022 Bakkal Corporation. All rights reserved. Bakkal wordmark and logo are trademarks owned by Carsly, Inc. dba Bakkal Corporation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg7765left\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"width: 100%; text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg7765left\" title=\"Bakkal Corporate Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1873917\/Bakkal_Corporation_Logo.jpg\" alt=\"Bakkal Corporate Logo\" align=\"middle\"\/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3614917-1&amp;h=1470753409&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1873918%2FBakkal_Corporation_AppStore.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1873918%2FBakkal_Corporation_AppStore.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1873918\/Bakkal_Corporation_AppStore.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3614917-1&amp;h=2717843008&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1873917%2FBakkal_Corporation_Logo.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1873917%2FBakkal_Corporation_Logo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1873917\/Bakkal_Corporation_Logo.jpg<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  Bakkal Corporation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">PLEASANTON, Calif.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 11, 2022<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Bakkal Corporation today announced a seed round investment of <span class=\"xn-money\">$3 million<\/span> from new and existing investors.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg1700left\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"width: 100%;text-align: left\">&lt;img id=&quot;prnejpg1700left&quot; title=&quot;Bakkal &#8211; Your favorite ethnic groceries delivered to your door.&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1873918\/Bakkal_Corporation_AppStore.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bakkal &#8211; Your favorite ethnic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-negocios-y-finanzas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133131"}],"version-history":[{"count":"1","href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133134,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133131\/revisions\/133134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}