gifting

Creator wishlist startup Throne is doing so well that it returned investor money

Throne, which lets fans gift items to creators from their wishlist, is launching a new gifting portal for family and friends called Happy Wishlist. However, the more interesting bit of the story is th

Digital card and gifting platform Givingli nabs $10M

Three years ago, Ben and Nicole Emrani Green were planning their wedding and decided to go digital with registries to save on money and materials. But when it came time to gift others, while they pref

Evabot secures fresh capital to inject AI into corporate gifting

The idea of corporate gifting to maintain client relationships isn’t a novel concept. In fact, there’s a cottage industry of “gifting-as-a-service” startups that promise to streaml

SnackMagic picks up $15M to expand from build-your-own snack boxes into a wider gifting marketplace

The office shut-down at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year spurred huge investment in digital transformation and a wave of tech companies helping with that, but there were some distinct lose

Alyce, an AI-based personalised corporate gifting startup, raises $30M

Swag has a long and patchy history in the world of business. For every hip pair of plaid socks, there are five t-shirts you may never wear, an itchy scarf, a notepad your kids might use, and an ugly m

Goody raises $4 million for its mobile app that lets you send gifts via text

Unless you’ve got someone’s Amazon Wish List, gift giving today can still be fairly difficult. You don’t necessarily know a friend or family member’s shipping address, their si

App Store Review guidelines hint that users will soon be able to gift in-app purchases, not just apps

Apple will allow iOS users to gift in-app purchases, not just paid apps, according to a change to the company’s App Store Review Guidelines spotted this week. This means developers may soon have

WeChat users in China can now gift friends a Starbucks coffee via chat

Starbucks is furthering its push into China after it consummated its partnership with Tencent to introduce coffee gifting via WeChat, China’s top messaging app. WeChat, which recently revealed i

Jifiti’s new Messenger chatbot API will find you a gift even when you’re out of ideas

Jifiti, the startup attempting to reinvent digital gift-giving, announced this morning that their new chatbot API was approved by Facebook Messenger. It’s a big deal for the Columbus, OH startup, wh

SwiftGift Lets You Send Presents Via Facebook

'Tis the season for gift-giving, which is presumably why stealthy U.K. startup SwiftGift -- founded back in 2013 -- is unwrapping its gifting-made-easy service to launch in beta today, ahead of the ho

Gift Guide: For The Tech-Happy Fashionista

The holidays truly are the most magical time of the year. The twinkly lights, the spiked eggnog... the designer collaborations on your favorite tech products. It warms the heart.

Gratafy Lets You Send Food & Drink Gifts To Friends Using Just Their Email Or Phone Number

Starting today, you can send your friends and family members gifts using only their email address or phone number. This new trick comes from Gratafy, a Seattle-based social gifting platform launched l

Amazon’s New Social Gifting Service “Amazon Birthday Gift” Leverages Facebook, Competes With Facebook’s Own Gifts

Stealing a page right out of <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/14/aggregift-turns-anything-on-amazon-into-a-crowdfunded-group-gift/">a startup called Aggregift's</a> playbook, Amazon today launc

Sincerely’s New “Thoughtfulness Engine” Will Help You Remember Birthdays & Special Occasions, Won’t Spam You With Alerts

<a target="_blank" href="http://sincerely.com/">Sincerely</a>, the mobile gifting startup behind <a target="_blank" href="http://postagramapp.com/">postcard</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://si

Honeymoon Registry Wanderable Comes To iPhone, Lets Couples Edit Registries & Send Out Thank You’s On The Go

Palo Alto-based <a target="_blank" href="https://www.wanderable.com">Wanderable</a>, a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/17/500-startups-fourth-demo-day/">500 Startups-backed</a> company designe

Aggregift Turns Anything On Amazon Into A Crowdfunded, Group Gift

A new gifting startup called <a target="_blank" href="https://www.aggregift.com">Aggregift</a> is launching an entirely new way to purchase goods on Amazon. The company, which has been quietly runni

WishPop For iPad Brings Gift Wish Lists And Thank You Cards To Kids, Helps Grown-Ups Know What To Buy

<a target="_blank" href="http://appstore.com/wishpop">WishPop</a>, an iPad application designed to help children, parents, and other family members better manage gift lists and thank you notes, is lau

Sesame, The Newly-Launched Mobile Gifting App For iPhone, Becomes An Online Store

Question: when does your mobile app also need a web experience? Answer: when the app is essentially an e-commerce shop. <a target="_blank" href="http://sincerely.com/sesame">Sesame</a>, the recently

Lightbank-Backed Boomerang Debuts A Social Gifting Platform For Brands And Businesses

<a target="_blank" href="https://rang.com/">Boomerang</a>, the Chicago-based social gifting service which sprung up this summer as a way for users to send gifts to friends (<a href="https://techcrunc

Social Gifting App Wrapp Hits 1 Million Users (Because People Like Free Stuff)

Social gifting startup <a target="_blank" href="https://www.wrapp.com/">Wrapp</a> is today announcing that it has grown its user base to 1 million within fourteen months - proof that people really d
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