Carousell's monetising push quadruples 2018 sales, but it's still US$25m in the red
Singapore
CAROUSELL's monetisation efforts may be starting to pay off, as the online marketplace operator quadrupled revenue to US$7 million in 2018, according to regulatory filings obtained by The Business Times.
But with its most recent valuation of over US$550 million, the seven-year-old loss-making startup may still have a ways to go to justify a multiple of close to 80 times revenue.
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