Mercari, a peer-to-peer marketplace app, has claimed the title of Japan’s first pre-IPO startup unicorn after raising 8.4 billion yen (about $75 million) at a valuation of over $1 billion. This is the ...

Mercari, a Japanese startup with a mobile flea market app, raised at least $6.5 billion on its first day of trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, as the marketplace looks to expand in the U.S. to take ...

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Mercari is a rapidly expanding presence in the Japanese consumer landscape. Four years after its launch in February 2013, this peer-to-peer app for buying and selling goods by smartphone has topped 50 ...

This year has seen a rash of startups from Asia coming over to the United States, many of them from China, including online direct sales company JD.com, microblogging service Sina Weibo, Chinese ...

Japan's online consumer-to-consumer secondhand goods trading market is about JPY 2.2 trillion (roughly 28.9% of total used goods value). The market is further split into two segments: auction (JPY 1 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese peer-to-peer marketplace app operator Mercari has applied to list its shares with the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which could be the biggest initial public offering (IPO) this ...

Japan's online consumer-to-consumer secondhand goods trading market is about JPY 2.2 trillion (roughly 28.9% of total used goods value). The market is further split into two segments: auction (JPY 1 ...

TOKYO—Japanese flea-market app Mercari Inc.’s valuation soared to $6.5 billion on its first day of trading, as investors celebrated the eBay Inc. rival’s debut in a country that is nearly bereft of ...

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese peer-to-peer marketplace app operator Mercari has applied to list its shares with the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which could be the biggest initial public offering (IPO) this ...

TOKYO, July 22 (Reuters) - Japanese peer-to-peer marketplace app operator Mercari has applied to list its shares with the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which could be the biggest initial public offering (IPO) ...