The story
History
Samuel Lim, Daniel Lim, and Benjamin Han co-founded Reebonz in March 2009. Prior to Reebonz, Samuel Lim founded South East Asia’s Fusion Mobile, in his first year of university in 2000. In 2004, he founded another line of business under eFusion Solutions Pte Ltd called Fusion Direct. Benjamin Han and Daniel Lim started in e-commerce with the launch of Zuunbo.com in 2007. Zunnbo.com was awarded seed funding by the Singapore Management University (SMU) Business Innovation Generator, which manages the Entrepreneurial Talent Development Fund together with SPRING Singapore for investing in promising business proposals.
In August 2021, Daniel Lim left the company.
In September 2021, Samuel Lim alerted creditors that Reebonz is "in creditors' voluntary liquidation". Lim explained in the notice that Reebonz "cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business".
In December 2021, it was announced that LiveCommerceEntertainment (LCE) had acquired Reebonz.com brand assets. LCE relaunched the website as ReebonzLIVE!.
2012
NTV7 MY’s The Breakfast Show featured Reebonz.
Cosmopolitan SG awarded the 2012 Cosmo Webby Award for Best Site for Luxury Handbags to Reebonz.
2013
In early 2013, Singapore's media giant, MediaCorp, signed on as lead investor in a round of fund-raising by Reebonz. The round raised a total of S$50 million from MediaCorp and existing shareholders. This brings Reebonz's market valuation to cross the $250M mark. This is the first time MediaCorp has invested in an online retail firm.
2014
Reebonz was featured in Luxe Asia of Channel NewsAsia
From Wikipedia’s article on Reebonz, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.7