What is Dawanda? Dawanda Review

Overview

Focus on the sale of handmade, unique, customized, and restored products

Sellers can sell directly to consumers, and DaWanda charges a certain commission

Sellers can create and customize store pages at no additional cost

introduce

The platform has 5.2 million buyers and approximately 270,000 sellers, with 200 million page views and 20 million visitors per month.

Dawanda's sales data is amazing: on average, one piece of clothing is sold every minute, one accessory is sold every 30 seconds, and one piece of jewelry is sold every 20 seconds.

Development History

In November 2011, the company received €4 million in funding from venture capital firms Vorwerk Direct Selling Ventures and Piton Capital.

In 2012, DaWanda plans to open offices in other European countries.

In January 2015, U.S. investor Insight Venture Partners took over DaWanda, holding a 55.7% stake in the company at the time.

In 2016, the company lost 4.2 million euros. The company's founder Michael Putz left the platform in the same year. - In June 2017, DaWanda announced layoffs at its Berlin headquarters and branches in Poland and Spain.

In June 2018, it was reported that DaWanda planned to shut down the platform completely by the end of August 2018. At the same time, competitor Etsy announced that it would not take over the company itself, but its sellers.