B5M Claims It’s the Largest Independent Shopping Search in China, Announcing $16 million Series B Round of Funding

B5M claims it’s now the  the largest independent shopping search service and the second largest after Alibaba’s Etao in China.

Launched in December 2011, B5M has indexed 300 million items from Taobao & Tmall, over six thousand business-to-consumer sites, over 200 group-buying sites and over 40 social shopping websites. There are more than 3 million visitors and 50 million pageviews daily.

The company has reached deals with 350 e-commerce players such as JD.com, Dangdang, Amazon China, Yihaodian, Vancl and Ctrip receiving transaction-based compensation from them.

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