Revel Touch Raises $10M To Help Retailers Create Sleek Mobile Commerce Apps

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Tuesday, August 21st, 2012
Revel Touch

Revel Touch, a company that helps retailers, publishers, and brands create sleek shopping experiences on mobile platforms, has raised $10 million in funding led by Foundation Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Founded by Mar Hershenson, Revel Touch offers what they call a “merchandising cloud” platform to retailers and publishers. Basically, this software integrates with brands’ existing ecommerce systems to make the process of creating shopping experiences on mobile apps easy to deploy, update and customize.

Revel uses a brand’s existing assets, photography and social content for app design, allows retailers to customize the app, and also offers data gathering and intelligence to add a personalized experience for consumers. And integration with existing ecommerce systems ensures that shoppers can always browse, search and purchase in-stock items.

And Revel says that its app offer a touch-optimized shopping experience for the tablet, whether as Apps or HTML5 browser experiences, and for smartphones. Brands ranging from Anthropologie to Conde Nast’s Lucky Magazine to Design Within Reach have used Revel to extend online shopping to mobile platforms.

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Company: Revel Touch
Website: reveltouch.com
Launch Date: April 2011
Funding: $10M

Revel Touch provides highly responsive, touch-optimized shopping experiences for iPads and other touch devices. The service is delivered via a SaaS platform, allowing retailers to customize and edit their storefronts at any time - with no IT involvement - on native apps or HTML5. Tablets are the fastest-growing category in history and have led to dramatic changes in consumer behavior with media, social and shopping. With all this change, there are new opportunities to redefine a brand’s relationship, and...

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