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# Carousell acquires Indonesian recommerce platform Laku6 for $25 million
- URL: https://www.techloy.com/carousell-acquires-indonesian-recommerce-platform-laku6-for-25-million/
- Published: 2022-07-26T15:31:45.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-07T23:13:35.000Z
- Author: Oluwajuwonlo Afolabi
- Tags: E-commerce, Tech in Indonesia

[Carousell,](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thecarousell.Carousell&hl=en&gl=US) an online classified marketplace operator based in Singapore has acquired Laku6, an Indonesian recommerce platform in a $25 million deal.

- The acquisition is targeted at boosting sales for the firm in the second-hand phone market.
- Heliconia Capital, a Temasek-backed investment firm supported Carousell in buying the recommerce platform.
- Founded in 2016, Laku6 allows users to trade devices and uses a technology tool for phone diagnosis in under two minutes, with a record of over 500,000 mobile phones processed to date.
- Since its launch in 2012, Carousell has evolved from being a marketplace to buy and sell lifestyle products to a company dealing in property and automotive listings.