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Tickled Media to expand into e-commerce with focus on mums

The venture will focus on the company's existing core audience of Asian mothers

Sharanya Pillai

Published Sun, Feb 24, 2019 · 11:00 PM

Singapore

TICKLED Media, the startup behind parenting portal theAsianparent, is set to launch an e-commerce venture targeting mothers this year, CEO Roshni Mahtani told The Business Times.

Ms Mahtani's remarks come after a KrASIA report on Feb 1 that the company was talking to investors, including Alibaba's Ant Financial and Chinese conglomerate Fosun, on a new round of funding at a pre-money valuation of US$60 million. She declined to comment on the KrASIA report.

When asked for details about the upcoming e-commerce venture, Ms Mahtan…