What is Pinkoi? Pinkoi Review

Basic Introduction

Pinkoi is Asia's leading design shopping website with a large number of high-quality designers. It insists on selling only high-quality designs with good taste and customization, making beautiful life at your fingertips and making every gift-giving moment more unique.

Pinkoi is headquartered in Taiwan and has offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Bangkok and other places. It will focus on expanding into markets across Asia and continue to help independent brands around the world.

Website Status

The customer group is concentrated in the age group of 25-44, with more than 2.15 million members, sales in more than 93 countries, more than 5.15 million items sold, and more than 1.05 million items designed.

Logo

Pinkoi's corporate logo is a pink fish. The loving eyes of the fish represent the careful search and taste recognition for good ideas and good designs. The image of the fish also represents the continuous striving to break the existing market rules, strive to create a design product online shopping environment that is closer to the masses, and strive to build dreams with designers!

*The correct pronunciation of Pinkoi is Pinko-1 (combined with "kouyi"), with the final "i" being pronounced as "yi".

develop

In August 2011, Pinkoi design product shopping website was officially established.

In July 2012, it won the 2012 IDEAS Show Judges Award & Best Market Opportunity Award.

In June 2013, the number of designers on the site officially exceeded 5,000.

In July 2013, Mobile Web was officially launched.

In October 2013, the number of designed products on the site officially exceeded 100,000.

In January 2014, the Chinese version of iOS App was officially launched.

In April 2014, the Chinese version of the Android App was officially launched.

In July 2014, the international transit service was launched.

In January 2015, it was selected as the App Store's Best New App.

In February 2015, the total number of designed products on the site exceeded 280,000; payment methods were added - Japanese convenience store payment and Pay-easy.

In March 2015, the Japanese branch was officially established in Daikanyama, Tokyo.

In April 2015, the payment method of WeChat Web Payment was added.

In September 2015, Pinkoi received a US$9 million investment from Sequoia Capital and GMO Ventures.

In October 2015, the number of designed products on the Pinkoi site officially exceeded 400,000, and the English version of the website was officially launched. Pinkoi now supports five languages: Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese, and Thai.

In November 2015, Pinkoi hosted a two-day Christmas market in Taiwan for the first time.

In early 2016, Pinkoi acquired Japanese design e-commerce iichi.

In February 2016, the Thailand branch was established, adding six currencies: Australian dollar, Singapore dollar, British pound, Euro, Canadian dollar and Malaysian ringgit.

In March 2016, Kentaro Iinuma became the director of Pinkoi Japan, and the entire iichi team joined Pinkoi.

In July 2016, it was selected as Google Play's Outstanding Startup APP.

In October 2016, it was selected as the App Store's must-have APP for sharing; it was selected as the App Store's most praised cultural and creative APP.

In November 2016, financial services providers DOCOMO and 2C2P 123 were added.

In December 2016, it was selected as Google Play's Best of 2016 Special: Best Art Design App.

In 2017, Pinkoi opened its Thailand store.

In January 2017, 7-11 delivery in Taiwan was officially launched.

In March 2017, Apple Pay was added as a payment method and the new product sorting system was officially launched.

In April 2017, it won the Gold Medal Service Survey of CommonWealth Magazine - Vertical Shopping Network Gold Award; the new membership system was officially launched; and the payment method - WeChat APP payment was added.

In May 2017, the number of designed products on Pinkoi officially exceeded 800,000.

In December 2017, a new system for designer backend management was launched.

March 2018, Pinkoi Design Forum - New Attitude of Asian Design Lifestyle.

Financing

In September 2015, Pinkoi received a US$9 million investment from Sequoia Capital and GMO Ventures.