| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.06.2024 | Baresquare Launches Tywin For Ecommerce Revenue Optimization | Baresquare, an AI-powered data analytics platform, today announced the launch of its next generation platform, including the industry’s first fully autonomous ecommerce AI agent called Tywin. Tywin redefines ecommerce workflows by swiftly h... |
| 28.09.2020 | Wear Your Vote On Your Sleeve With These 8 Stylish Clothing Items | NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 16: A guest picks up their voting merch and makes a statement about ... [+] the importance of your voice and your vote at Fashion Our Future 2020 // STUDIO 189 during September 2020 - New York Fashion Week: Th... |
| 24.09.2020 | This Week in Jobs Pittsburgh: Clear skies, full hearts | Hi! You’re reading the Pittsburgh edition of This Week in Jobs (TWIJ), a weekly newsletter written by our team at Technical.ly in partnership with InnovatePGH and the Pittsburgh Innovation District. Each week we put together for you a slate... |
| 28.05.2020 | This Week in Jobs: Dress like Tom Wolfe | Hi! You’re reading the Pittsburgh edition of This Week in Jobs (TWIJ), a weekly newsletter written by our team at Technical.ly in partnership with InnovatePGH and the Pittsburgh Innovation District. Each week we put together for you a slate... |
| 04.10.2019 | Go Global Retail Acquires ModCloth | Brand investment platform Go Global Retail is to acquire ModCloth, an online specialty retailer of unique women’s fashion.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Founded in 2002 by Susan Gregg Koger and Eric Koger, ModCloth is a digitall... |
| 23.08.2018 | Get With The Flock: 15 Flamingo Fashion Buys | Bird’s the word. Specifically, flamingos. Trendsetters have been flocking to the long-legged feathered friends as the cheeky emblem of choice and they are everywhere, from home décor to bathing suits to clutches. Scoop up one of these flami... |
| 28.02.2018 | With New Private Fashion Brands, Walmart Woos Its Affluent Tech, Grocery Shoppers | Walmart executives Sarah Veit Wallis and Preston Bottomy discuss the retailer's upmarket fashion and... [+] beauty strategy. eTail West/Wordwide Business Research |
| 15.06.2017 | How to Boost Social Media Engagement With Psychology | Social media is a noisy place. Just imagine every day – 350 million photos are posted on Facebook. Over 500 million tweets go out and over 85 million visuals are posted on Instagram. So how do you push through that noise and get your “voice... |
| 28.03.2017 | Yep, more later-stage companies are taking on venture debt | Venture debt has been much in the news lately. Earlier this month, for example, we learned that ModCloth, an online company that sells vintage women’s apparel, is being acquired by Jet.com for less than investors poured into the company — l... |
| 17.03.2017 | Confirmed: Walmart has acquired womenswear site ModCloth | Some more consolidation in the world of online fashion and e-commerce. Today Walmart announced it has acquired ModCloth, a womenswear retailer that focuses on a younger, progressive demographic and a healthier range of sizes beyond the too-... |
| 16.03.2017 | Walmart subsidiary Jet.com to buy ModCloth for less than $75m | Online fashion retailer ModCloth, known for its vintage-inspired and indie apparel, is on the verge of being acquired by Walmart, by way of its subsidiary, Jet.com. The deal, which had already been rumored, is almost finalized and will fetc... |
| 10.10.2016 | It’s Time to Say Goodbye to Sad Desk Lunches | This piece originally appeared on Uncubed.com.
It’s time to end that toxic relationship with your delivery guy. If you’re getting takeout everyday at the office, you’re eating more calories and spending more cash than you’d need to.
Get Ins... |
| 01.09.2015 | Could you start a company with your SO? 9 successful companies cofounded by significant others | Would you be surprised to hear that over 1.4 million couples work together? (And manage to not kill each other in the process?)
Starting a business is stressful no matter what, but having the one you love at your side can be just the thing ... |
| 17.10.2014 | ModCloth Hit By Second Round Of Layoffs | E-commerce retailer ModCloth has laid off additional staff across engineering, creative, product, producer, social teams and more in a second wave of layoffs. The news follows earlier cuts confirmed back in July which, at the time, affected... |
| 15.08.2014 | Don’t be afraid to take on your biggest competitor: How to get users with provocative marketing | 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!
F**k Vogue. That was the idea. It was 2009 and we... |
| 15.08.2014 | Don’t be afraid to take on your biggest competitor: How to get users with provocative marketing | F**k Vogue. That was the idea. It was 2009 and we were looking for the right messaging for Sense of Fashion. A messaging that would resonate with our potential users. And since it was a marketplace for independent fashion, with early fashio... |
| 16.07.2014 | Online Fashion Company ModCloth Lays Off 70 Employees | Online retailer ModCloth laid off around 70 employees yesterday, a little under 15 percent of its 500-person-plus workforce.
We first heard about the cuts through a couple of emailed tips and a comment on Twitter. A ModCloth spokesperson co... |
| 08.07.2014 | Pinterest Steps Outside Its Walled Garden With New Animated Follow Button For Brands | Pinterest, the image-based social network now riding on a $5 billion valuation and 60 million monthly active users (per comScore), has been making a lot of moves to improve how people discover and navigate content on its own site. Today it ... |
| 18.12.2013 | What ‘going mobile’ means for your company | This post is part of a new series called “The Future of Modern Software” and is brought to you by New Relic. Read the series here. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity.
While some burgeoning companies ma... |
| 14.11.2013 | Pinterest Launches Its First API, And It’s All About Big Brands: Zappos, Walmart, Disney In First User Group | Pinterest is today, at long last, releasing its first API for developers, which will let third-party sites embed Pinterest pins, and make it easier to post content into Pinterest itself. First partners for the service are a list of big bran... |
| 02.10.2013 | TC Cribs: ModCloth, Where Playing Dress-Up Is All In A Day’s Work | Welcome back to a new episode of TechCrunch Cribs, the video series that steps inside the gates of the hottest technology companies around to get a good look at the places, people, and oftentimes pets behind the web’s most popular products.... |
| 01.08.2013 | H&M finally fulfills their promise – opens online store | Ladies and gentlemen, warm up those credit cards because H&M has finally opened an online store in the US.
The Swedish company’s lack of an online presence has long baffled consumers as the megastore has expanded to have 269 locations i... |
| 19.07.2013 | ModCloth, Now With Over $100 Million In Annual Revenue, Is Going Mobile First | ModCloth, the indie fashion site best known for its vintage-inspired dresses, is today offering the first look into its revenue situation since 2009. The e-commerce startup, which is backed by roughly $48 million in outside funding, says it... |
| 20.05.2013 | Pinterest adds more info into pins, puts them on mobile | Users to get more info on products, recipes and movie pins, partners include Netflix, eBay and Etsy
Pinterest, like all social networks needs to to make itself attractive to advertisers and brands. Earlier this year, the site added a new so... |
| 18.04.2013 | To Serve Its Growing Mobile Audience, ModCloth Arrives On iPhone | Indie and vintage clothing site ModCloth has arrived on the iPhone, following the launch of the iPad native application earlier this year. The move comes at a time when the e-commerce company reports seeing tremendous growth on mobile, with... |
| 07.02.2013 | Tapping Into Shifting Buying Habits, ModCloth Launches An iPad App | Over Christmas, employees at ModCloth, the indie and vintage fashion site founded by a husband and wife team, noticed that about 30 percent of the site’s visits were coming from mobile devices. The staggering shift in consumer habits from d... |
| 27.11.2012 | Forget Facebook! Meet 12 investors on the hunt for the next Microsoft | 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!
Smart investors are betting big on business techn... |
| 27.11.2012 | Forget Facebook! Meet 12 investors on the hunt for the next Microsoft | Smart investors are betting big on business technology.
Sure, all the buzz goes to consumer-focused companies like Facebook and Zynga. But while those companies’ post-IPO performance has been tepid at best, enterprise startups have been qui... |
| 02.08.2012 | New online game from Schell lets fans contribute story lines, artwork, music, and more | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Schell Games is unveiling an online game that all of us can jointly design. Puzzle Clubhouse, which will formally kick off on Aug. 30, ... |
| 02.08.2012 | New online game from Schell lets fans contribute story lines, artwork, music, and more | Schell Games is unveiling an online game that all of us can jointly design. Puzzle Clubhouse, which will formally kick off on Aug. 30, will have monthly installments, each inspired by the ideas and preferences of its players. This type of c... |
| 16.05.2012 | Funding daily: go shopping for vintage clothes and Russian furniture | 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!
We’ve got a lot of stories this Wednesday for you... |
| 16.05.2012 | Funding daily: go shopping for vintage clothes and Russian furniture | We’ve got a lot of stories this Wednesday for you. Click each link below to learn more about the day’s funding news.
If you’re hankering for more funding news throughout the day, you can subscribe to our Deals Channel RSS feed by either cli... |
| 15.05.2012 | ModCloth Raises $25M in Funding |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Online retailer of independently designed fashion and decor, has closed a $25 million round of funding led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP).
>> Click here for more funding data on ModCloth
>> To export Mo... |
| 15.05.2012 |
ModCloth Gets $25M To Expand In Los Angeles
| ModCloth, an online retailer of vintage fashion and decor, and which revolves around a community of independent designers, said today that it has raised $25M, in part to grow its operations in Los Angeles. The San Francisco company did not ... |
| 15.05.2012 | ModCloth Closes $25M Funding | ModCloth, a San Francisco, CA-based online retailer of independently designed fashion and decor, has closed a $25m funding.
The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), with participation from existing investor Accel Partners.
The c... |
| 22.04.2012 | Google Makes Its Big Video Push With AdWords For Video | A couple of weeks ago, early participants in the new AdWords for Video program gathered at the YouTube offices. The ostensible justification for the meeting was a fancy photo shoot, but YouTube executives also gave a little pep talk, laying... |
| 02.07.2011 | E-Commerce: Beyond The Metrics | Gautum Gupta is an associate at General Catalyst Partners, where he focuses on financial services, enterprise IT, consumer services, and new media. You follow him @gRamblings.
For all the excitement around commerce these days, there have be... |
| 20.03.2011 | Why Women Rule The Internet | Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Aileen Lee, Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Aileen focuses on investing in early stage consumer internet ventures and previously worked at Gap, Odwalla, The Northface and Morgan ... |
| 08.03.2011 | Not so pretty: Layoffs at e-commerce darling ModCloth | ModCloth, the hot e-commerce startup backed by Accel Partners, First Round Capital, and the Floodgate Fund, laid off just over a dozen of its 248 employees today, the company told VentureBeat.
The company, which sells vintage clothing and a... |
| 27.12.2010 | StyleHop's Hunt For Hot Fashion Comes To An End As It Heads To The DeadPool | Over two years ago I wrote about a startup called StyleHop that set out to identify hot fashion items through the use of casual games — instead of having to fill out a survey or poll, it would generate fashion recommendations based on how y... |
| 22.10.2010 | VCs get onboard with design-it-yourself offerings | Companies that let customers design their own products are becoming the next big thing. Just three months ago, I wrote that this trend of “customer co-creation” was one to watch. But it may prove even hotter than I thought. Since publishing... |
| 12.10.2010 | TC Teardown: 13 Ways To Get To $10 Million In Revenues (Part II) | Editor’s note: This post is the second part of an analysis of different consumer Internet business models by guest author Steven Carpenter. It is suggested that you first read Part I.
Most consumer Internet startups fall into a baker’s doze... |
| 02.07.2010 | Funding roundup - week ending 07/02/10 | Two mobile geo-location startups, Foursquare and Geodelic, raise big money
Last week's roundup was clearly dominated by one sector growing by leaps and bounds: social gaming. The news on that front has not slowed down, as evidenced by Disne... |
| 01.07.2010 | ModCloth Closes $19.8M Series B Financing | ModCloth, a San Francisco, CA-based online retailer specializing in fashion and decor from independent designers, has secured $19.8m in a Series B financing.
The round was led by Accel Partners, with participation from existing investors Fi... |
| 30.06.2010 | ModCloth Raises $19.8 Million Series B For Indie Fashion | Indie fashion site ModCloth has raised $19.8 million in Series B funding in a round led by Accel Partners, with participation from existing investors Floodgate and First Round Capital. As part of the deal Accel’s Theresia Gouw Ranzetta will... |
| 30.06.2010 | Indie fashion site ModCloth closes $19.8M led by Accel | ModCloth, an online retailer that specializes in an indie-retro clothing style, has announced a $19.8 million Series B funding round led by Accel, with participation from existing investors Floodgate and First Round Capital.
Accel’s Theresi... |
| 30.06.2010 | Indie fashion site ModCloth closes $19.8M led by Accel | 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!
ModCloth, an online retailer that specializes in ... |
| 02.06.2010 | Tech-Orations: Where style is key | Yes, I know. You spend all day at work on a computer. Then you come home and get back on it. So go ahead, show your love for tech and rest your eyes on a Tech-Oration key clock.
Comes in two colors with two designs, the pear green CTRL key ... |
| 13.05.2010 | How to get funded by super angel Mike Maples | Investor in Twitter, Digg, Chegg is looking for 'social commerce' and 'big data' companies
When Mike Maples came out to Silicon Valley in 2005 - before YouTube, Twitter and Facebook were household names - he set out to fill a void in the in... |
| 06.10.2009 | Bonobos - lifting butts and revenue | CEO and co-founder Andy Dunn on building an online pants store to $6 mln in sales a year
In this segment, Bambi Francisco interviewed Andy Dunn,. CEO of Bonobos, a two-year-old Manhattan-based designer and retailer of casual and dress trous... |
| 17.05.2009 | Shopping 2.0: Current E-commerce Trends (Redux) | In a RWW Live podcast from last December, we discussed ‘shopping 2.0’. In this analysis of the show, we explore how e-commerce has evolved over the past few years – what web technologies our expert guests are currently using, and the trends... |
| 11.12.2008 | Shopping 2.0: Current E-commerce Trends | This week’s RWW Live, our regular podcast show, was on the topic of ‘shopping 2.0’. In Part 2 of our analysis of the show, we explore how e-commerce has evolved over the past few years – what web technologies our expert guests are currently... |
| 10.12.2008 | Shopping 2.0: How to Target a Niche & Create Community | Yesterday our regular podcast show, RWW Live, was on the topic of ‘shopping 2.0’. The show was very illuminating about how the Social Web has changed e-commerce and what tactics leading apps use to target their audience and make money. Inde... |
| 09.12.2008 | RWW Live: Shopping 2.0 | In this week’s episode of RWW Live, to be broadcast live at 3.30pm PST Tuesday (6.30pm EST), ReadWriteWeb talks to a group of leaders in the online shopping market. We have executives from Retrevo, ModCloth, Baynote, ThisNext and Cartfly on... |
