| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.04.2015 | Chirpify: Transforming tweets into loyalty rewards | What do Tim McGraw, Sprint and Estée Lauder have in common? Besides being household names and brands, they understand that social media is only valuable when interactions are converted into a different currency. That currency could be brand... |
| 25.02.2015 | Chirpify adds $870,000 in funding to expand into new markets | Portland social media startup Chirpify has raised another $870,000 as the company works to expand into new markets. |
| 03.07.2014 | Startup Spotlight: Shoppost lets retailers sell products in social media newsfeeds | Zantler CEO David Robb.
Since people are spending more and more time looking at Facebook and Twitter, why not let them purchase items directly from their social media feeds?
That’s the thinking behind Shoppost, a Seattle startup that’s deve... |
| 12.06.2014 | Buy-via-hashtag startup Chirpify has acquired analytics company Measureful | This morning, social commerce company Chirpify announced that it had acquired Measureful, a Flipboard for data and a fellow Portland company. |
| 04.06.2014 | Buy-via-hashtag startup Chirpify has acquired analytics company Measureful | A Portland, Ore. acquisition story.
This morning, social commerce company Chirpify announced that it had acquired Measureful, a “Flipboard for data” and a fellow Portland company.
Launched in 2011, Chirpify enables people to make purchases ... |
| 15.05.2014 | Soldsie, The Service That Lets You Shop Via Facebook And Instagram Comments, Raises $4 Million | Soldsie, an e-commerce service enabling businesses to sell directly to their Facebook fans and Instagram followers through the comments section, has raised $4 million in Series A funding from First Round Capital, the company is announcing t... |
| 15.01.2014 | Chirpify Lets Viewers Buy With Hashtags | Marketers now use social media expertly to engage audiences? But, whilst such schemes are good top-of-funnel branding mechanisms, what about sealing the deal with an actual purchase? |
| 03.01.2014 | How Chirpify is Cashing in on Twitter | Chris Teso, an ad guy relocated from Boston to Portland, spotted opportunity where some might dread to look: stuff his relatives sold online. |
| 09.12.2013 | ‘Cashtags’ turn tweets into dollars | How can a simple hashtag lead to a purchase? In American Expresss case, cardholders first had to sync their credit card with their Twitter account; once they did that, a tweet of the specified hashtag allowed them to purchase goods. Both L... |
| 25.11.2013 | Insta-Sales? Soldsie Expands From Facebook-Based E-Commerce To Include Support For Instagram | Instagram isn’t only a place to share perfectly framed photos of sunsets and selfies – some business owners have realized that the site works for pushing product, too. Today, e-commerce startup Soldsie, which previously focused only on busi... |
| 09.11.2013 | Go get ‘em Twitter, but remember your roots: 4 hopes on the eve of the big IPO | Three years ago, I founded my third company. I left my old company, risked my livelihood (again), put my social life on hold and bootstrapped Chirpify myself for over a year
because of Twitter. |
| 11.10.2013 | Comr.se raises $780K to help brands sell products within social streams | Shopping cart technology isn’t exactly the newest innovation around. But one young Seattle startup seems to have struck the right chord in terms of bridging the gap between social media, advertising and e-commerce.
Comr.se — pronounced “com... |
| 08.10.2013 | Nimble Pioneers Social Selling Movement, Experiences Record Growth as Businesses Worldwide Focus on the Social Customer | Global Adoption of Social Media for Customer Engagement and Relationship Management Drives Record Nimble Usage, Making it a Popular Choice for B2B Professionals
SANTA MONICA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–October 8, 2013–
Today, Nimble, the pionee... |
| 03.10.2013 | Twitter Is Potential Contender for eCommerce Dominance | Twitter may seem like just another place to discover news and celebrity gossip, but its potential use in eCommerce has been downplayed until recently. What if you could buy the newest pair of Nike’s as soon as you find out about them throug... |
| 19.09.2013 | Chirpify Drops Its “Hashtag Commerce” Consumer Marketplace To Focus On Big Brand Marketing And “Actiontags” | According to Chirpify founder Chris Teso, “hashtags are the new URL.” Though more than a few people at Twitter are no doubt nodding their head vigorously in agreement, everywhere you turn in the tech industry, someone is creating (or has a ... |
| 02.09.2013 | Greater Giving and Chirpify Sign Agreement to Enable In-Stream Social Fundraising on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram | Greater Giving, a division of Global Payments Inc. (NYSE:GPN) and a company that delivers powerful fundraising solutions and credit card payment processing to the nonprofit market nationwide, announced today that it has signed an agreement ... |
| 05.08.2013 | Chirpify Raises $4M in Funding | Chirpify, a Portland, Oregon-based social commerce and payments startup, raised $4m in funding.
Backers included Saturn Partners, Provenance Ventures, Idan Ravin, David Cohen, Chris Paul, Dwight Howard, Kevin Durant, Andy Liu, Geoff Entress... |
| 02.08.2013 | Roundup: HootSuite’s $165M, Plus News on Chirpify, Exo Labs, Blucora | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This is the “put a bird on it” edition of the Northwest tech news roundup. HootSuite, the Twitter dashboard maker, hauls in $165 million, the most venture capital in one go fo... |
| 31.07.2013 | Chirpify raises $4M to move social media transaction technology to live events, TV | It’s been just over a year since Chirpify raised its first round of cash and it has been flying high ever since.
The Portland-based startup that allows you to make purchases via your Facebook, Twitter and Instagram feeds just announced a $4... |
| 31.07.2013 | Chirpify raises another $4M in Series A funding | In-stream commerce company brings round to $6M, will use the funding to add live events and TV
(Updated to reflect comment from Chirpify)
Chirpify, a platform for in-stream commerce on social media, has raised an additional $4 million in Se... |
| 31.07.2013 | Chirpify, A Service That Lets You Shop By Replying “Buy” On Social Media, Raises $6M Series A | Chirpify, a startup aiming to simplify online commerce by bringing it to the platforms where people congregate, like Twitter, and more recently, Facebook, and Instagram, has raised $6 million in Series A funding. Previous investor Voyager C... |
| 13.06.2013 | Roundup: Funding for Optimum, Visualant, Planets, Payments and More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Corrected 6/18/13, 9:32 a.m. See below.] Optimum Energy and Visualant collected significant funding in the last week, while Planetary Resources announced a stretch goal for i... |
| 11.06.2013 | Chirpify goes beyond PayPal, adds credit card payments | Chirpify looking to make in-stream social media commerce cheaper and simpler by eliminating fees
It may have taken a few years, but social media networks, especially Twitter and Facebook, finally seem to have figured out how to successfully... |
| 11.06.2013 | Chirpify Goes Beyond PayPal To Bring Direct, In-Stream Payments To Facebook, Twitter And Instagram | Facebook and Twitter have become stellar venues for brands and small businesses alike to advertise their wares. However, while social-style gift-giving has seen some traction thanks to Facebook, social commerce has been slow to take flight.... |
| 01.05.2013 | Roundup: Tango Card, VoloMetrix, Glider, Chirpify Score Funds, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Call this the “torrid springtime heatwave” edition of the Seattle tech news roundup, because that’s what’s in the forecast from now through the weekend. Meanwhile, a handful o... |
| 24.04.2013 | Chirpify Secures $2M Series A |
PORTLAND, OR, Platform for in-stream commerce on social media networks announced it has secured $2 million from Voyager Capital in an initial close of a series A round.
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>> To e... |
| 24.04.2013 | In-stream commerce platform Chirpify raises $2M | Chirpify allows customers to purchase and pay for goods on social media through a reply or comment
(Updated to reflect comment from Chirpify)
Chirpify, a platform for in-stream commerce on social media, has raised a $2 million Series A roun... |
| 24.04.2013 | Chirpify Raises $2M in Series A Funding | Chirpify, a Portland, Oregon-based social commerce and payments company, raised $2m in an initial close of a Series A round.
The backer was Voyager Capital.
The company, which had raised $1.3m in 2012 (read here), plans to use the new fundi... |
| 23.04.2013 | Chirpify raises $2M in fresh cash, partners with Lil Wayne and Snoop Dogg | Things are flying for Portland-based Chirpify, as the startup just announced a $2 million round led by Seattle firm Voyager Capital. Combined with a $1.3 million round one year ago, total funding sits at $3.3 million.
Chirpify, which allows... |
| 20.03.2013 | InSparq’s Live Pinboards Bring A Fancy, Social E-Commerce Experience To Any Online Retailer | If you listen to the likes of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, physical retail as we know it is on a slow march to obsolescence, with the world today in a “pre-death” state of good-but-transitory traditional businesses sitting alongside ... |
| 19.03.2013 | Chirpify for Facebook: The first way to make purchases from your news feed | Chirpify already lets you make purchases via your Twitter and Instagram feeds. It was only natural for them to expand to Facebook.
And that’s exactly what they’ve done, as the Portland-based startup today expanded their platform to allow pa... |
| 01.02.2013 | On a roll: Keith Richards using Chirpify to sell t-shirts | Portland-based Chirpify is on a roll, quite literally.
The payments-through-Twitter platform already had the likes of Green Day, Wale and Kat Graham use its service, but now Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards is on Chirpify as well.
Richa... |
| 23.10.2012 | InstaSale: Chirpify Takes Its In-Stream Commerce Service To Instagram As Its Twitter Service Continues To Fly | Chirpify, the social commerce platform that launched six months ago as the only in-stream way to make purchases on Twitter, is now starting to spread its wings: today the company is announcing that it has integrated with Instagram, the phot... |
| 23.10.2012 | Chirpify, not Facebook, swoops in to help brands sell on Instagram | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Facebook hasn’t made a dime from photo-famous Ins... |
| 11.10.2012 | Chirpify: Buy, Sell, Donate With Your Twitter Account | It was only a matter of time. Tweets are now transactions.
A new service called Chirpify has opened Twitter to e-commerce, enabling people to buy, sell, donate, pay and otherwise transact in-stream with their Twitter accounts.
It’s a storef... |
| 08.09.2012 | Portland Digital eXperience: A few of my favorite things | Dude, seriously, you are beautiful. … You’re so sexy when you smile.
These two phrases were emblazoned across the mirror of the women’s bathroom in a karaoke bar in Portland, and from my brief foray to the Rose City for the Portland Digital... |
| 23.07.2012 | Tech Moves: Maveron adds venture partner; Doug Aley joins Zulily; etc. | David Wu
Maveron, the Seattle venture capital firm led by former investment banker Dan Levitan and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, has named David Wu to the position of venture partner. Wu, who will be based in the firm’s San Francisco office... |
| 19.06.2012 | Get your democracy on: Chirpify launches campaign donations via Twitter | Portland-based Chirpify is helping this year’s presidential candidates raise funds by allowing users to donate to either Obama or Romney’s campaigns via Twitter.
The Twitter-based commerce platform will allow users to give money to either c... |
| 24.04.2012 | Chirpify lands $1.3 million to sell music and concert tickets through Twitter | The Chirpify dashboard turns Twitter into a transactional platform
Twitter is great for sharing content. But when it comes to actually conducting commerce, the fast-growing social networking service leaves something to be desired. Portland’... |
| 24.04.2012 | Twitter commerce platform Chirpify raises $1.3M from social media execs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
By turning tweets into transactions, startup Chir... |
| 24.04.2012 | With $1.3M From Voyager & More, Chirpify Brings Direct Music, Ticket Sales To Twitter | When you think Twitter, you may think realtime news, or CRM, or brand marketing, or maybe even Justin Bieber, but “eCommerce”? Probably not. In the social network landscape, Facebook is generally seen as the most eCommerce-inclined, what wi... |
| 24.04.2012 | Chirpify Secures $1.3M Series A |
PORTLAND, OR, Twitter Commerce Platform, today announced it has secured $1.3 million in series A financing.
>> Click here for more funding data on Chirpify
>> To export Chirpify funding data to PDF and Excel, click here
C... |
| 24.04.2012 | Chirpify Secures $1.3M in Series A Financing | Chirpify, a Portland, Oregon-based Twitter commerce platform, has secured $1.3m in Series A financing.
Backers include Voyager Capital, Geoff Entress, Andy Liu, Rudy Gadre, Ryan Holmes, and TiE Oregon Angels.
Led by CEO and Founder Chris Te... |
| 15.02.2012 | Chirpify looks to bring commerce to Twitter | Twitter is a great platform for businesses, journalists and everyday people. We all know that. But what may not have occurred to you is that it could also be an incredibly useful commerce platform. At least one company was thinking differen... |
| 15.02.2012 | Chirpify Receives Seed Funding from Upstart Labs | Chirpify, a Portland, OR-based provider of a platform that allows brands and merchants to buy, sell, donate and transact on Twitter, said it received seed funding from incubator Upstart Labs.
Founded as Sell Simply in July 2011 by Chris Tes... |
| 15.02.2012 | Sell Simp.ly Rebrands As Chirpify; Launches New Twitter Commerce Platform For Brands | We first covered Sell Simp.ly in November last year, as it looked to capitalize on the increasing interest in social media as not only a place to advertise and build an online presence for brands, but as a platform for conducting social com... |
| 15.02.2012 | Chirpify looks to bring commerce to Twitter | Twitter is a great platform for businesses, journalists and everyday people. We all know that. But what may not have occurred to you is that it could also be an incredibly useful commerce platform. At least one company was thinking differen... |
