Neighborhood Goods, the direct to consumer department store hawking brands like Rothys, Dollar Shave Club, Buck Mason, Draper James and Stadium Goods, has new cash to expand its storefront for e-commerce juggernauts.The company has raised $11 million in a new round of financing led by Global Founders Capital, with participation from previous investors Forerunner Ventures, Serena Ventures, NextGen Venture Partners, Allen Exploration, Capital Factory and others.The Dallas-based startup has raised $25.5 million to date and is expanding into a new location in Austin to complement its stores in Plano, Texas and a location in New York, opening soon, according to the companys chief executive and co-founder Matt Alexander.The Neighborhood Goods concept, providing a brick and mortar outlet for online brands, is one that dovetails nicely with backers like Global Founders Capital and Forerunner Ventures, which are both longtime investors in direct to consumer startups.As we expand our network of brands, were so thrilled to have Neighborhood Goods as a core element of our portfolio for them to test, assess, explore and learn about the impact of physical retail as they grow, said Global Founders Capital investor Don Stalter.As the company expands its geographic footprint, its also experimenting with different online features, like online browsing of in-store collections and the option for physical, in-store pickup of digital orders.
Neighborhood Goods also said it will begin offering an analytics back-end for brand partners to provide data on activations and branded events at the companys stores.