Little acquires online marketplace for salons and spas, Stylofie

Bangalore-based deals discovery app Little has acquired Stylofie, a curated online marketplace for salons and spas. This is Little’s second acquisition after it acquired Trideals, a Chandigarh-based deals marketplace in October 2015.

Stylofie provides services like booking, comparing and rating their favourite salon and spas in Bangalore, Delhi and Gurgaon. Along with that, it also provides merchants with insights and data into their daily operations. The acquisition will give Little access to more than 50,000 registered visitors and over 1000+ merchants on the Stylofie platform and will also help in strengthening its presence in the beauty and wellness segment.

Founder of Stylofie, Saurav Dey, will join the Little Apps team as head of the wellness business in the Gurugram office along with the 11-member team. Two other co-founders of Stylofie, Prateek Agarwal and Balaji Sreenivasan, will exit the company to explore other opportunities.

“We are always looking to increase market share by adding new customers and merchants to our Little app platform. Stylofie had a great marketplace model that will be a perfect fit for us. We are excited to have Saurav and the rest of the Stylofie family on board as we join forces to consolidate our leadership position in this space,” said Manish Chopra, CEO and co-founder, Little.

Founded in 2015 by Manish Chopra and Satish Mani, Little is present in 15 cities in India and offers close to 50,000 deals across categories like food and beverages, movies and health and wellness from 25,000 merchants. It has raised $50 million from Paytm, SAIF Partners, GIC Singapore and others to date.