March 6th, 2013

F-Commerce Startup Soldsie Raises $1 Million For Its Facebook Comments-Based Shopping Platform

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E-commerce startupĀ Soldsie, which just announced in January that it had raised $425,000 from 72 investors through FundersClub, has now officially closed its full seed round of $1 million in outside funding. In addition to FundersClub, the company raised from 500 Startups and e.ventures. → Read More

February 13th, 2013

Backed By $1.3M, Social Commerce Startup Getonic Looks Beyond F-Commerce, With ~5,000 SMBs, 15 Corporates Signed Up To Sell

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Israeli startup Getonic, which builds tools for small businesses wanting to sell via social channels such as Facebook, has announced it has raised $1.3 million in total funding. Getonic’s seed backers include thetime, Rutledge Vine Capital, private investor Mortimer Singer, and other unnamed angel investors. → Read More

February 11th, 2013

Yardsellr, The “eBay For Facebook,” Becomes The Latest Casualty In Social & Local Commerce

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In the fall of 2011, we caught up with social commerce startup, Yardsellr, which the founders claimed at the time had grown into a community of over 5 million people. The Facebook-based social commerce platform was listing 6K new items for sale each day (at the time) and had over 120K items for sale in total. This, by the way, came after the company raised $5 million from Accel in 2010. → Read More

September 20th, 2012

A New Take On F-Commerce: Soldsie Lets Retailers Sell Through Facebook Comments

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Oh look, maybe Facebook commerce can work. Soldsie, a San Francisco-based startup which was previously operating under the name Central.ly, is today officially launching a social media point-of-sale platform that lets business sell on Facebook using Facebook comments. The company soft launched its service in May of this year, and has now reached over $1 million in transactions across its network… → Read More