• ShopSocially Nabs $1.1 Million Series A, Lets You Shop Socially

    Thursday, October 21st, 2010

    Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More

    We recently wrote about a new startup operating in the social commerce space, called ShopSocially. Founded in late 2009 by entrepreneurs Jai Rawat and Samir Palnitkar, ShopSocially’s tagline is “where friends help friends shop” as the site taps into your social graph (on Twitter and Facebook) for product recommendations.

    The company this morning announced that it secured $1.1 million in Series A financing led by Valhalla Partners, with additional participation from angel investor Raman Khanna, Ashish Gupta and Dharmesh Thakker.

    ShopSocially is essentially a site for friends to exchange shopping recommendations and discover new products. According to the company, more than 10,000 product recommendations have been created by friends in a few months since its launch.

    Company: ShopSocially
    Website: shopsocial.ly
    Launch Date: 2009
    Funding: $1.1M

    ShopSocially is the world’s most trusted shopping recommendation engine. ShopSocially is a place where friends help friends shop. ShopSocially’s premise is that our buying decisions should be influenced by people who we trust and people who know us i.e. our friends - and not by ads. You can tap into the collective shopping wisdom of your friends at ShopSocially by: Asking friends for recommendations when you are buying something Sharing your own purchases and expertise to help friends shop ShopSocially’s...

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