Ecosystem play for used car site


By JOY LEE
More than just offering a marketplace to transact used cars, co-founder and group chief executive officer Eric Cheng (pic) notes that the startup will also be scaling up its financing and insurance offerings to the other markets that it is in, namely, Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore, as it looks to capture more of the US$55bil (RM231.69bil) market in the region.

USED-car platform Carsome is increasingly building out the different verticals on its site to further support the different stakeholders in the used car market.

More than just offering a marketplace to transact used cars, co-founder and group chief executive officer Eric Cheng notes that the startup will also be scaling up its financing and insurance offerings to the other markets that it is in, namely, Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore, as it looks to capture more of the US$55bil (RM231.69bil) market in the region.

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