Global Blue

Global Blue is a tourism shopping tax refund company. It is widely known for its tax-free shopping networks that help customers save up to 19% on all purchases made abroad at any of Global Blue’s 270,000 shopping partners. Global Blue also helps travelers find the their favorite local and international brands. It also operates in dynamic currency conversion, marketing services, point-of-sale technology, retail staff education, and customer intelligence. Alf Näslund founded Sweden Tax Free Shopping that pioneered the concept of tax-free shopping in 1980 and gave rise to Global Blue, with its headquarters in Nyon in Switzerland. Gloabl Blue now operates in 51 countries worldwide.

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Twig

Corporate Round in 2022
Twig is a circular economy-oriented fintech company. It turn things into cash instantly, power the circular economy and carbon offset lifestyle.

TOSHI

Corporate Round in 2022
TOSHI is transforming the retail experience by bridging the gap between online and in-store retail and is the first company to bring in-store experiences directly to the customer’s location.

ZigZag Global

Acquisition in 2021
ZigZag Global is a software platform to help retailers manage returns globally. It grades retailers returned products and offers consolidation, refurbishment, local redistribution, recycling, destruction, and reselling stock internationally on a revenue share basis. The ZigZag network connects over 200 local warehouses in 130 countries so customers can get faster refunds. E-commerce consumers return items back to retailers via an intelligent returns portal. Returns take less than one minute, and customers send tracked returns by post, locker or courier from over 300,000 locations. Goods are sent back to a local warehouse and then ZigZag can scan, grade, consolidate or refurbish products to get them back into the supply chain more quickly. Customers can be refunded in just 24 hours, and goods can then be returned, destroyed, donated or re-fulfilled to a new order or resold via marketplaces. ZigZag won the 2017 ShopTalk Startup award along with a 25,000 Euro prize. It also won the 2017 Sustainability Award in Milan, 2017 Innovation Award at IRX, StartUps 100 Winner 2017. 2016 Global award at the World Retail Congress in Dubai for innovation and were shortlisted for Innovation of the Year by Retail Week at the Tech and EComm Awards, Mark of Excellence - Disruptor of the Year 2016 - Supply Chain Awards, Winner at London Technology Week – GetInTheRing. ZigZag was founded in 2014 by Al Gerrie and Laurence Guy. and is headquartered in London, England, UK.

Currency Select

Acquisition in 2016
Currency Select is a provider of DCC and MCP focussed solutions and services. Currency Select has provided DCC-enabled merchant acquiring services to Australian merchants since 2004, including the direct acquiring of UnionPay transactions since 2013. As a result, we have become the leading provider to the hotel, accomodation and education sectors and have developed sector specific solutions such as a fully integrated payment solution involving Oracle's Opera Property Management System (PMS) and Simphony Food-and-Beverage point-of-sale (POS) systems

TravelersBox

Series A in 2016
TravelersBox allows international passengers to deposit their leftover currency when leaving their travel destination. TBX operates kiosks in airports around the world that allow passengers to convert their leftover cash into the online space. Change can be uploaded onto well-kno

TravelersBox

Series A in 2015
TravelersBox allows international passengers to deposit their leftover currency when leaving their travel destination. TBX operates kiosks in airports around the world that allow passengers to convert their leftover cash into the online space. Change can be uploaded onto well-kno
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