05 Jun 2017

In a market where furniture stores are closing down in the past years due to lacklustre demand and climbing rents, local furniture startup HipVan is still standing its ground. With more than 70,000 happy customers in the three years since its founding, it’s definitely a success story in proving that there is indeed a market segment for furniture to go fully online.

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15 Feb 2017

Online furniture retailer HipVan opened its permanent 11,000 sq ft flagship store at The Cathay in Dhoby Ghaut. The store is seven times larger than HipVan's previous pop-up space in Millenia Walk and Suntec City. It features more than 1,000 of HipVan's bestsellers, including beds, dining tables and rugs. Its website attracts 200,000 to 300,000 views a month, while revenue has been growing by 12 per cent on average every month.

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23 Mar 2017

HipVan's modern dining table is compact enough to find a home in even the smallest apartments, and the perfect spot to take a minute and enjoy your culinary creations. And while you're at it, enjoy how little you had to spend to get there.

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27 Mar 2017

Here are 8 gorgeous modern armchairs to give your home designer appeal without really breaking the bank: Helga Veronic Lounge Chair in Russet from HipVan.

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15 Mar 2017

Furniture shouldn’t cost an arm and leg, and HipVan knows it. The homegrown store prides itself on fair pricing across more than 5,000 designs.

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26 Aug 2016

Having a Pinterest-worthy home in Singapore is easier than you’d think! Check out our handy shopping guide to best furniture and home decor shops around the island. Choose from a variety of light pastel-hued sofas, chairs, tables, beds, and accessories to jazz up your pad. Don’t wanna travel all the way to their showroom? HipVan has an app online so you can shop from the comforts of home.

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26 Aug 2016

HipVan decided to put extra-thick pocket springs into its mattresses - for firmer support. Prices range from $390 for a single-sized. Sleep model mattress to $1,450 for a king-sized Levitate model mattress. Since the launch of its mattress line, HipVan has sold more than 1,000 mattresses, which can be returned within 100 days. However, Mr Danny Tan, HipVan's founder, says no one has made a return yet.

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26 Aug 2016

Everyone knows HipVan as that online store specializing in quirky furniture and decor ever since it launched in April 2013. They were quickly listed in Founders Grid's as one of "50 Singapore startups you should get to know". Although they've organized offline shopping experiences with pop-ups at Millenia Walk and Suntec City in 2015 and 2016 respectively, this flagship brick-and-mortar store located on the second floor of The Cathay is seven times larger.

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26 Aug 2016

At the store, you’ll find more than 1,000 of its bestselling products, from dining tables and sofas to beds and mirrors to kitchen towels and tableware. Everything’s pretty affordable, too. You can think of it as a mini IKEA store in terms of price and variety — except it’ll actually send experts to assemble your furniture for you (think of how much time you’ll save not feeling frustrated or arguing over which part goes where in the construction process).

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26 Aug 2016

“As big as a store like Ikea is, what it has is only in one style, whereas on HipVan, you can find things that are industrial, retro, classic, modern and so on,” Tan says. “This is very important for home and living shoppers because furnishing your home is a very personal experience and you want your home to be an inspiring place for yourself, to spend time with your loved ones or just rest after a long day’s work. Ultimately, HipVan wants to help everyone create inspiring homes without spending too much.”

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26 Aug 2016

The team behind HipVan is on a mission to bring customers products that are not only creative, but functional as well. In an interview with TimeOut, Deborah Wee, co-founder of HipVan, said: "We are inspired by the classic VW camper van that was a cultural icon in the '60s - the van embodied uniqueness, colour, and choosing your own path in life. So we focus on products that were borne out of a designer's inspiration and creativity. "

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07 Jul 2016

2016's Most Influential Brands - This year, Influential Brands carried out a region-wide analysis, asking some 6,000 millennials to pinpoint which brands have gained our trust.

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08 Oct 2015

Singapore start-up Hipvan wants to make shopping for sofas, tables, lights and appliances not only exciting, but light on the pocket too. It is an online home-and-living shopping portal with about 4,000 items.

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27 Jul 2015

Danny Tan started HipVan back in 2013 with the vision to bring well designed and good quality furniture, home furnishings and lifestyle products to consumers in Singapore.

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07 Oct 2015

GGV, whose portfolio is expected to generate more than $60 million in revenue this year, announced its single largest investment to date. It's leading a $3.5 million funding round into Singapore-based online home furnishings store HipVan, with participation from East Ventures, LionRock Global and individual investors like Skype co-founder Toivo Annus.

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08 Oct 2015

Homegrown furniture and home accessories online retailer HipVan has landed S$4.7 million in Series A funding, led by Singapore-based venture capital firm Golden Gate Ventures, among other investors. HipVan chief executive Danny Tan said he wants to build the “next IKEA” over the Internet.

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08 Oct 2015

Online designer furniture store, HipVan has raised a Series A funding to the tune of S$4.7 million ($3.32 million) and the round was led by Singapore-based venture capital firm Golden Gate Ventures (GGV). The Series A funding round also witnessed participation from East Ventures, Toivo Annus, LionRock Global, and other individual investors including the managing director and CFO of Barclays Asia Pacific.

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08 Oct 2015

Singaporean ecommerce site HipVan has completed its series A round of funding, worth S$4.7 million (US$3.32 million), the startup announced today. The round was led by Singapore-based venture capital firm Golden Gate Ventures. East Ventures also participated in the round, along with existing investors Toivo Annus, co-founder of Skype, and LionRock Global. The company will use the funding “quite evenly to grow the business,” CEO Danny Tan tells Tech in Asia.

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08 Oct 2015

Singapore-based furniture marketplace HipVan announced today that it has raised SG$4.7 million (about US$3.3 million) in a Series A round led by local venture capital firm Golden Gate Ventures. Other investors involved in this round include East Ventures and LionRock Global, as well as notable individuals such as Toivo Annus who is one of the Co-Founders of Skype. The new round will be used across the board and specifically for further development of the company’s private-label products, which have been doing well, according to CEO of HipVan, Danny Tan.

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03 Jul 2017

Golden Gate Ventures Fund II LP, the venture-capital fund backed by Facebook Inc. co-founder Eduardo Saverin and Temasek Holdings Pte, is the lead investor in a $4.7 million capital raising by Singapore-based online furniture store HipVan. HipVan will use the funds to expand in the $3 billion Singapore furniture market and bridge the gap between firms like Ikea and upscale companies like Xtra and Space, Danny Tan, chief executive officer of HipVan.

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14 Sep 2016

At HipVan, there’s everything from sofas, tables, chairs, and beds here for you to test out, or small ticket items that you can purchase to bring home immediately for decorating your crib.

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19 Mar 2016

Online design retailers such as HipVan, which stock a large range of Designed-in-Singapore products, have sprung up in the last few years.

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