Fiverr Deepens eCommerce Solutions with Acquisition of Leading Dropshipping Automation Tool AutoDS
July 31 2024 - 2:00AM
Today, Fiverr, the company changing how the world works together,
announced its acquisition of AutoDS, which provides a
subscription-based end-to-end solution for dropshippers, including
product research and sourcing, inventory management, and automated
fulfillment. With its expansive global reach and an omni-channel
approach, it aggregates over 150 million products and serves tens
of thousands of paying subscribers on its platform.
“AutoDS has built an impressive product and community that is
highly synergetic with Fiverr. Dropshipping and its adjacent
services in marketing and programming verticals are some of the
fastest growing categories on Fiverr. It is also a community that
is deeply rooted in Fiverr’s origin, where anyone with talent and
idea can leverage FIverr’s platform to build a business,” said
founder and CEO of Fiverr, Micha Kaufman. “This acquisition also
marks another step in Fiverr’s transformation from a marketplace
into a powerful platform that offers not only access to talent but
also software solutions for its audience, making it a one-stop shop
for their entire digital needs.”
AutoDS brings tens of thousands of dropshippers into the Fiverr
ecosystem, adding to the existing dropshipping and e-commerce buyer
base on Fiverr. This acquisition expands Fiverr’s footprint in the
value chain in categories with existing dominance and growth
momentum, including dropshipping, website development, e-commerce
management and social media marketing. The global dropshipping
market size was evaluated at USD 285 billion in 2023 and it is
expected to hit over USD 2 trillion by 2033.
AutoDS was founded in 2018 and is managed by Lior Pozin, Michael
Royf, and Ofir Bokobza, with the goal of automating the
dropshipping process, to help source products from major channels
like Amazon and eBay and to help every business scale easily.
AutoDS provides a single dashboard where multiple stores can be
monitored, and prices are automatically updated as they increase
from suppliers. Since then it has grown dramatically over the
years, adding more and more partners and tools including the AutoDS
AIWrite tool designed to empower dropshippers by optimizing
listings.
“Our audiences are very similar - ambitious entrepreneurs who
are building and growing their businesses - so the opportunity is
clear,” said Lior Pozin, co-founder and CEO of AutoDS. “With
Fiverr’s experience growing a global brand, together we will be
able to accelerate our growth and take the company to the next
level, helping us build the company to be the world’s #1 solution
for dropshipping that we always envisioned.”
AutoDS will remain independently operated while working together
to maximize synergies between both companies.
About Fiverr
Fiverr’s mission is to change how the world works together. We
exist to democratize access to talent and to provide talent with
access to opportunities so anyone can grow their business, brand,
or dreams. From small businesses to Fortune 500, around 4 million
customers worldwide worked with freelance talent on Fiverr in the
past year, ensuring their workforces remain flexible, adaptive, and
agile. With Fiverr Business Solutions, large companies can find the
right talent and tools tailored to their needs to help them thrive
and grow. On Fiverr, you can find over 700 skill categories,
ranging from AI to programming and 3D design, digital marketing to
content creation, and from video animation to architecture.
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Forward Looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
All statements contained in this release that do not relate to
matters of historical fact should be considered forward-looking
statements, including, without limitation, statements regarding the
potential synergies with AutoDS, the expected growth of the
dropshipping market and expected growth of the number of buyers and
the Company’s business including AutoSD business, as well as
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other important factors that may cause actual results, performance
or achievements to be materially different from any future results,
performance or achievements expressed or implied by the
forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to: risks
related to the acquisition of AutoDS and our ability to
successfully integrate AutoDS and into our business, political,
economic and military instability in Israel, including related to
the war in Israel; our ability to successfully implement our
business plan within adverse economic conditions that may impact
the demand for our services or have a material adverse impact on
our business, financial condition and results of operations; our
ability to attract and retain a large community of buyers and
freelancers; our ability to generate sufficient revenue to achieve
or maintain profitability; our ability to maintain and enhance our
brand; our dependence on the continued growth and expansion of the
market for freelancers and the services they offer; our dependence
on traffic to our website; our ability to maintain user engagement
on our website and to maintain and improve the quality of our
platform; our operations within a competitive market; our ability
and the ability of third parties to protect our users’ personal or
other data from a security breach and to comply with laws and
regulations relating to data privacy, data protection and
cybersecurity; our ability to manage our current and potential
future growth; our dependence on decisions and developments in the
mobile device industry, over which we do not have control; our
ability to detect errors, defects or disruptions in our platform;
our ability to comply with the terms of underlying licenses of open
source software components on our platform; our ability to expand
into markets outside the United States and our ability to manage
the business and economic risks of international expansion and
operations; our ability to achieve desired operating margins; our
ability to comply with a wide variety of U.S. and international
laws and regulations; our ability to attract, recruit, retain and
develop qualified employees; our reliance on Amazon Web Services;
our ability to mitigate payment and fraud risks; our dependence on
relationships with payment partners, banks and disbursement
partners; and the other important factors discussed under the
caption “Risk Factors” in our annual report on Form 20-F filed with
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on February 22,
2024, as such factors may be updated from time to time in our other
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www.sec.gov. In addition, we operate in a very competitive and
rapidly changing environment. New risks emerge from time to time.
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