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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 144
NOTICE OF PROPOSED SALE OF SECURITIES
PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

ATTENTION: Transmit for filing 3 copies of this form concurrently with either placing an order with a broker to execute sale or executing a sale directly with a market maker.

1 (a) NAME OF ISSUER (Please type or print)

Vipshop Holdings Limited

(b) IRS IDENT. NO.

N/A

(c) S.E.C. FILE NO.

001-35454

1 (d) ADDRESS OF ISSUER

No. 20 Huahai Street, Liwan District

STREET

CITY

Guangzhou, China

STATE

ZIP CODE

510370

(e) TELEPHONE NO.

AREA CODE

86(20)

NUMBER

2233-0000

2 (a) NAME OF PERSON FOR WHOSE ACCOUNT THE SECURITIES ARE TO BE SOLD

Blackboard Ventures Inc.

(b) RELATIONSHIP TO ISSUER

LP of affiliate

5650 Yonge Street

CITY

Toronto

STATE

ZIP CODE

M2M 4H5

INSTRUCTION: The person filing this notice should contact the issuer to obtain the I.R.S. Identification Number and the S.E.C. File Number.

3 (a)

Title of the Class of Securities To Be Sold

(b)

Name and Address of Each Broker Through Whom the
Securities are to be Offered or Each Market Maker
who is Acquiring the Securities

SEC USE ONLY

(c)

Number of Shares
or Other Units
To Be Sold

(See instr. 3(c))

(d)

Aggregate
Market
Value

(See instr. 3(d))

(e)

Number of Shares
or Other Units
Outstanding

(See instr. 3(e))

(f)

Approximate

Date of Sale

(See instr. 3(f))
(MO. DAY YR.)

(g)

Name of Each
Securities
Exchange

(See instr. 3(g))

Broker-Dealer
File Number

American depositary shs.

ITG, 130 King Street West, Exchange Tower, Suite 1040, Toronto, ON M5X 1B1

19,799 ADSs

$4,347,860.40

111,665,972

(2 shs. per ADS)

ASAP

NYSE

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. (a) Name of issuer

(b) Issuer’s I.R.S. Identification Number

(d) Issuer’s address, including zip code

(e) Issuer’s telephone number, including area code

2. (a) Name of person for whose account the securities are to be sold

(b) Such person’s relationship to the issuer (e.g., officer, director, 10% stockholder, or member of immediate family of any of the foregoing)

3. (a) Title of the class of securities to be sold

(b) Name and address of each broker through whom the securities are intended to be sold

(d) Aggregate market value of the securities to be sold as of a specified date within 10 days prior to the filing of this notice

(e) Number of shares or other units of the class outstanding, or if debt securities the face amount thereof outstanding, as shown by the most recent report or statement published by the issuer

(f) Approximate date on which the securities are to be sold

(g) Name of each securities exchange, if any, on which the securities are intended to be sold

Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained in this form are not
required to respond unless the form displays a currently valid OMB control number.

SEC 1147 (08-07)

TABLE I –– SECURITIES TO BE SOLD

Furnish the following information with respect to the acquisition of the securities to be sold
and with respect to the payment of all or any part of the purchase price or other consideration therefor:

Title of
the Class

Date you
Acquired

Nature of Acquisition Transaction

Name of Person from Whom Acquired
(If gift, also give date donor acquired)

Amount of
Securities Acquired

Date of
Payment

Nature of Payment

ADSs

6/5/14

Distribution from Limited Partnership

DCM V, L.P.

19,799.00

1/24/11 (paid by DCM)

Cash

INSTRUCTIONS:

If the securities were purchased and full payment therefor was not made in cash at the time of purchase, explain in the table or in a note thereto the nature of the consideration given. If the consideration consisted of any note or other obligation, or if payment was made in installments describe the arrangement and state when the note or other obligation was discharged in full or the last installment paid.

TABLE II –– SECURITIES SOLD DURING THE PAST 3 MONTHS

Furnish the following information as to all securities of the issuer sold during the past 3 months by the person for whose account the securities are to be sold.

Name and Address of Seller	Title of Securities Sold	Date of Sale	Amount of Securities Sold	Gross Proceeds
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

INSTRUCTIONS:

See the definition of “person” in paragraph (a) of Rule 144. Information is to be given not only as to the person for whose account the securities are to be sold but also as to all other persons included in that definition. In addition, information shall be given as to sales by all persons whose sales are required by paragraph (e) of Rule 144 to be aggregated with sales for the account of the person filing this notice.

ATTENTION: The person for whose account the securities to which this notice relates are to be sold hereby represents by signing this notice that he does not know any material adverse information in regard to the current and prospective operations of the Issuer of the securities to be sold which has not been publicly disclosed. If such person has adopted a written trading plan or given trading instructions to satisfy Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act, by signing the form and indicating the date that the plan was adopted or the instruction given, that person makes such representation as of the plan adoption or instruction date.

August 18, 2014		/s/ Rossana Di Lieto, Chief Compliance Officer
DATE OF NOTICE		(SIGNATURE)
	The notice shall be signed by the person for whose account the securities are to be sold. At least one copy of the notice shall be manually signed. Any copies not manually signed shall bear typed or printed signatures.
DATE OF PLAN ADOPTION OR GIVING ON INSTRUCTION, IF RELYING ON RULE 10B5-1

ATTENTION: Intentional misstatements or omission of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations (See 18 U.S.C. 1001)

SEC 1147 (02-08)