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Cleaning-products startup ZeroCo, founded by Mike Smith and Carter, has secured seed backing of $600,000 and is running a Kickstarter campaign whose pledges have passed $200,000 toward a precise $251,313 target.
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Reuters reports Australian online fashion retailer SurfStitch is preparing to float on the Sydney exchange, with a prospectus planned, an unnamed source says — roughly triple what Billabong fetched when it was sold months before.
SurfStitch listed on the ASX after buying Billabong's stake and Swell.com for about $35m and Quiksilver's Surfdome for $45m; its IPO and pre-IPO raising drew several prominent fund managers.
SurfStitch raised $50 million to fund its $23.7 million purchase of Surf Hardware International, pushing its market value past Billabong's. The Sydney-born retailer listed the prior December at $214 million.