• Social Shopping Site ThisNext Raises $1.2 Million

    Leena Rao

    Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

    Thursday, January 28th, 2010

    ThisNext has raised $1.2 million in funding according to an SEC filing. This brings the startup’s total funding to nearly $9 million.

    Launched in 2006, ThisNext’s social shopping site combines browsing for items online with comments, tagging, social recommendations, comment ratings and a wish list. Users can also create a website widget to show products they like to others via any website. The site faces competition from Polyvore, Kaboodle and Like.com.

    Company: ThisNext
    Website: thisnext.com
    Launch Date: December 1, 2005
    Funding: $8.7M

    ThisNext is a social commerce site where people recommend their favorite products so others can discover what’s best to buy online. It blends two powerful elements of real-world shopping otherwise lost for online consumers: word-of-mouth recommendation from trusted sources and the ability to browse products in the way that naturally leads to discovery. ThisNext has also developed a suite of distribution tools for bloggers, online communities and commerce sites

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