| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.10.2020 | Future Founders Conference for Women Globally | On November 18, we are hosting our first Future Founders Conference for women who aspire to become a startup founder. The event will be online, and whether you are curious about launching your own startup or are in the early stages of build... |
| 05.04.2018 | Polyvore is shutting down after being acquired by fashion retailer Ssense | Montreal-based fashion site Ssense is acquiring Polyvore from Verizon’s Oath, but the site will not live on. Ssense has already shut down the Polyvore site, taking its user data and redirecting traffic from the site’s main URL.
Hair-splitti... |
| 17.07.2017 | How Disney's Ban on Costumes Inspired an Underground Style Subculture | When Sarah Sterling heads on a shopping trip to Forever 21 or Uniqlo, she's not looking for frayed jeans or the perfect weekend sweatshirt. Instead, the Californian Disney obsessive is searching for trousers the exact same shade of teal as ... |
| 08.03.2016 | New rules for hiring executive candidates | Dana Stalder Contributor
Dana Stalder is a partner at Matrix Partners, where he invests predominantly in fintech, consumer marketplaces and enterprise software.
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| 15.09.2015 | Polyvore now lets you take in-app photos to help create your next outfit | 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!
Social shopping site Polyvore has made a change t... |
| 03.08.2015 | Yahoo Acquires Polyvore | Polyvore, a Mountain View, CA-based platform to discover and shop for fashion, beauty and home decor products, has been acquired by Yahoo (YHOO).
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The acquisition aims to accelerate Yahoo’s digital c... |
| 01.08.2015 | M&A roundup - week ending 8/1/15 | HP buys the Stackato business from ActiveState; Razer purchased OUYA; Viber scooped up NextPeer
HP agreed to buy the Stackato business from ActiveState, a provider of enterprise development solutions. Terms of the deal were undisclosed.
Sta... |
| 31.07.2015 | Yahoo will acquire the social shopping site Polyvore | Yahoo announced today that it has agreed to buy the social shopping site Polyvore.
The sale price was not announced. The deal is the most recent in a spree of more than 50 acquisitions by Yahoo since Melissa Mayer took the helm three years ... |
| 31.07.2015 | Yahoo will acquire the social shopping site Polyvore | 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!
Yahoo announced today that it has agreed to buy t... |
| 31.07.2015 | Yahoo Will Acquire Fashion Startup Polyvore | Yahoo just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire style-focused community Polyvore.
In a blog post about the deal, Yahoo’s senior vice president of publisher products Simon Khalaf highlighted “Polyvore’s expertise on communit... |
| 08.07.2015 | Pinterest taps IFTTT and Polyvore as the first two services to integrate its APIs | 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!
In May, Pinterest announced a new platform for de... |
| 16.04.2015 | David and Alan Tisch raise $25M for their mobile shopping app Spring | Today, brothers David and Alan Tisch announced that they’ve raised $25 million in investor funding for their mobile shopping app Spring. The app is also now available on Android phones.
The cash will be used to expand the app’s reach intern... |
| 16.04.2015 | David and Alan Tisch raise $25M for their mobile shopping app Spring | 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!
Today, brothers David and Alan Tisch announced th... |
| 07.04.2015 | Polyvore Launches Remix, A New App For Style Advice And Shopping | Style community Polyvore released its second standalone mobile application today with the debut of Remix, an app aimed at the larger community of style enthusiasts who generally use the service not to create outfits for themselves, but to b... |
| 18.10.2014 | Bag Week: Daame Bags | While I can’t say that Daame Bags are the best daame bags we’ve tested (see what I did there?), I can say that they are definitely an interesting rethinking of the women’s laptop bag.
We tested two types – a wide leather laptop tote and oth... |
| 07.10.2014 | Polyvore Gets Personalized With A New iPhone App Featuring “Just For You” Style Suggestions | Style community Polyvore is out today with a new iPhone app that introduces personalization to the fashion-focused social shopping site for the first time. The app, which also received a visual makeover to present items in a cleaner, more s... |
| 07.10.2014 | Polyvore rolls out personalized recommendations in quest to be your go-to shopping site | 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!
Polyvore is best known for being that site fashio... |
| 07.10.2014 | Polyvore rolls out personalized recommendations in quest to be your go-to shopping site | Polyvore is best known for being that site fashionistas use to quilt together gorgeous collages of fashion items, creating their own magazine-like spreads. But the company has much bigger aspirations; namely it wants to be the portal where ... |
| 09.06.2014 | Inside Jobs: What It’s Like To Be The Community Director At Polyvore | For a consumer-facing technology startup, the people who make the biggest impact on the company’s success or failure are not the founders. They’re actually not even employed by the company at all. They’re the users — a group that’s often re... |
| 13.05.2014 | U.K. Wanelo Competitor Nuji Launches A Weird App With An “Interactive” Woman As Part Of Its Interface | What are today’s mobile shopping applications missing? You know, the social and collaborative e-commerce services, like Wanelo or Polyvore, for example? Better search? Streamlined checkout? No? How about a giant, animated video of a woman s... |
| 09.05.2014 | Style-Focused Community And Shopping Service Polyvore Arrives On Android | Polyvore, the style-focused community whose members regularly pin collages of outfits and accessories to Pinterest, has now arrived on Android. The app follows the company’s iOS debut by roughly a year and a half, indicating, perhaps, its l... |
| 11.03.2014 | ‘Soft Electronics’ Makes Wearable Computing Something You’d Actually Wear | During New York Social Media Week 2014, soft electronics rocked the spotlight. During Tech In Motion’s Wearable Technology Fashion Show, models showed off accessories and clothing that lit up, matched moods, and collected or displayed perso... |
| 20.11.2013 | One social network you’ve never heard of drives 20% of all social commerce | 60 percent of social shopping starts on Facebook. 15 percent starts on Pinterest, and a little five percent wedge begins on Twitter. But there’s one network you’ve probably never heard of that drives more than Pinterest and four times more ... |
| 20.11.2013 | One social network you’ve never heard of drives 20% of all social commerce | 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!
60 percent of social shopping starts on Facebook.... |
| 18.09.2013 | Startup Rundown: Shake App Makes Contracts On Your Phone And Wi-Fi Comes To NYC GroundLink Cars | Imagine all the fun of these contracts on your phone! (Photo: flickr user NobMouse)
Lawyer up on the go A new app from minds like BuzzFeed’s president Jon Steinberg and Spotify’s Jared Grusd lets you create, sign and send legal documents fr... |
| 17.09.2013 | Home Decor: One Startup Tackles E-commerce’s Biggest Hairball | Starting Tuesday, the shopping discovery site Polyvore expands its expertise from just fashion to home goods, too. But this deceptively simple announcement reveals nothing about the technical hoops Polyvore’s developers have had to jump thr... |
| 17.09.2013 | Polyvore Expands Beyond Fashion (And Into An Older, More Moneyed User Base) With New Home Decor Section | Polyvore has made its name as a site for creating collages that represent the lifestyles they want to lead, complete with beautiful outfits accessorized down to the right handbag and perfect perfume. So far, that has appealed to a very spec... |
| 13.06.2013 | Social Commerce Service Fancy Goes International, Now Ships Worldwide | Fancy, the one-time Pinterest competitor that has long since set its sights on social e-commerce, is expanding today with the launch of its internationalization efforts. The company is now making its service available in 30 languages and is... |
| 07.06.2013 | Day Trip Time: What To Bring | The start of summer means sunshine, warmer temperatures and lots of invitations to spend the day with colleagues at their home in the 'burbs. Whether you are visiting your boss or you are the boss, it can be difficult to predict your schedu... |
| 04.02.2013 | Ajent launches its online personal stylist service (exclusive) | 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!
Don’t have time to obsess over the latest fashion... |
| 25.01.2013 | Is digital mood boarding startup SampleBoard a threat to Photoshop? | Outside the world of design, the concept of “mood boarding” isn’t well known, and yet, it’s easy to acknowledge as something of value. Last year, a Google startup incubator awarded SampleBoard US$50 000 in seed funding and the tool is alrea... |
| 25.01.2013 | Is digital mood boarding startup SampleBoard a threat to Photoshop? | Outside the world of design, the concept of “mood boarding” isn’t well known, and yet, it’s easy to acknowledge as something of value. Last year, a Google startup incubator awarded SampleBoard US$50 000 in seed funding and the tool is alrea... |
| 20.12.2012 | With 20M unique visitors in 2012, Polyvore brings on new CRO | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Fashion startup Polyvore is in an enviable position: it has an army of dedicated users importing 2 million items to the site each month... |
| 28.11.2012 | Startup News: New York Tech Plans Sandy Relief Hackathon and Tumblr Shines Bright Like a Diamond | Tumblr’s Mr. Karp (Photo: wikipedia.org)
PartyHat.GIF Tumblr just passed a huge traffic benchmark by finally reaching 170 million global users a month. It’s now the ninth most visited site in the U.S., according to Quantcast. David Karp too... |
| 27.11.2012 | The world is your runway with Polyvore’s new iPhone app | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Today, Polyvore has launched its first ever iPhone app, with an Android and tablet offering on the way.
On the website and the new iOs ... |
| 27.11.2012 | Style Site Polyvore Debuts Its First Ever iPhone App, Touts Cash Flow Positive Operations | Polyvore, the interactive fashion and style website that lets people create collages of apparel and accessories using images from any online store, has had solid growth since it first came on the scene back in 2007. Its monthly unique visit... |
| 05.09.2012 | Boutine puts you front and center in a virtual fashion collection (exclusive) | 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!
You know that feeling when you’re in the fitting ... |
| 30.08.2012 | 9 SXSW Interactive Sessions Everyone Should Vote For – Now! | The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences & Festivals – the giant confab of interactive, music and film in Austin, TX, in March, 2013 – is currently working on some 3,656 panel proposals. Which ones actually happen depends on how many v... |
| 28.08.2012 | Go Try It On Adds Instagram-Like Filters To Mobile Fashion And Styling App | Go Try It On, a startup that allows users to share photos of themselves and get opinions on their looks, is releasing a new version of its iOS app that aims to make fashion photo sharing more interactive.
As we’ve written in the past, Go Tr... |
| 10.08.2012 | Fashion-Focused Startup Polyvore, 17M Monthly Uniques Strong, Opens Up NYC Office | It’s starting to seem like everyone who got their start in Silicon Valley is putting down an anchor in New York City. Earlier this year Facebook set up an engineering office in Manhattan, then this week Alexia Tsotsis made her move to the B... |
| 08.08.2012 | Boutine Lets Women Build Their Own Virtual Boutiques | The startup world can’t seem to get enough new fashion-focused companies these days (or rather, lots of startup founders have discovered women are a great target audience in the wake of Pinterest’s soaring growth). So here’s another entry t... |
| 27.07.2012 | Modington Lets You Shop For Outfits, Not Just Clothes | Pranav Dharma, a former IBM engineer, self-described “fashionable” geek, and founder of new women’s apparel startup Modington, thinks that today’s online e-commerce sites don’t reflect how women really shop for clothes and accessories. So h... |
| 25.05.2012 | Benchmark In San Francisco | Editor’s Note: Peter Fenton has been a General Partner at Benchmark Capital since 2006 and serves on the boards of DotCloud, EngineYard, HortonWorks, Lithium, Minted, New Relic, Pentaho, Polyvore, Twitter, Yelp (IPO: YELP), Zendesk and Zuor... |
| 06.04.2012 | Stylecaster and Etsy Unite to Bring High Fashion to the Masses | A shot from the Stylecaster/Etsy photoshoot in DUMBO.
Stylecaster, the community-driven fashion platform, has teamed up with the Internet’s answer to Zooey Deschanel, Etsy, to help bring accessible fashion to the masses. The two NYC-based c... |
| 03.04.2012 | Google Highlights Search Changes From March | Google has rolled out a great number of small changes to the search engine and UI over the last month, and now they have rolled them all into a big blog post for your consecutive enjoyment.
We’ve highlighted a few that seemed more relevant,... |
| 14.03.2012 | Fabhunter: The new visual bookmarking startup with big dreams | Tastemakers. Trendsetters. Fashionistas. Fabhunter aims to become a nexus where these fashion aficionados collide.
Launched in January of this year, Fabhunter is a new “social fashion discovery engine” that relies on user generated content... |
| 14.03.2012 | Fabhunter: The new visual bookmarking startup with big dreams | Tastemakers. Trendsetters. Fashionistas. Fabhunter aims to become a nexus where these fashion aficionados collide.
Launched in January of this year, Fabhunter is a new “social fashion discovery engine” that relies on user generated content ... |
| 06.03.2012 | Polyvore Hits 15M Monthly Uniques By Embracing the Pinterest Effect | It would make sense for Polyvore, the five-year-old website that lets users make fashion collages using images clipped from any online store, to feel competitive with Pinterest, the virtual pinboard site that is the web’s current fashion an... |
| 24.01.2012 | Polyvore Eats Up $14M Series C |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Web's largest fashion community site announced $14 million in Series C financing, led by DAG Ventures and with participation from new investors Goldman Sachs and Vivi Nevo.
>> Click here for more funding data on ... |
| 24.01.2012 | Polyvore Raises $14M in Series C Financing | Polyvore, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based online fashion community site, has raised $14m in Series C financing.
The round was led by DAG Ventures, with participation from new investors Goldman Sachs and Vivi Nevo (NV Investments) and existing ... |
| 23.01.2012 | Virtual Styling And Fashion Community Polyvore Raises $14M From DAG Ventures, Goldman Sachs And Others | Polyvore, the startup lets web shoppers pull their favorite items any online store and mix and match to create personalized outfits online, has raised $14 million in Series C financing led by DAG Ventures and with participation from Goldman... |
| 18.12.2011 | Startuphood And Parenthood: Not For The Faint Of Heart | Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Christine Tsai is a Partner at 500 Startups, where she juggles investments, the 500 Mentor network, platform companies, and more. Prior to 500, she was at Google and YouTube for many years. Foll... |
| 12.08.2011 | Go Try It On Raises $3M, Brings Gap And Sephora Personal Stylists To The Masses | Go Try It On, a startup that allows users to share photos of themselves and get opinions on their looks, has raised $3 million in funding from SPA Investments, Index Ventures and others.
On Go Try It On, you can upload a photo of yourself, ... |
| 10.03.2011 | Chicisimo takes on street fashion in Germany and Poland | Chicisimo, the Spanish born social platform for fashion fanatics is planting its high heels into new markets, launching chicisimo.pl and chicisimo.de and now available in a total of 6 markets, including US, UK, France and Spain.
Girls share... |
| 22.12.2010 | Virtual Styling Community Polyvore Debuts Analytics Tool For Fashion Designers | Polyvore, the startup lets web shoppers pull their favorite items any online store and mix and match to create personalized outfits online, is debuting a new analytics tool. Style Analytics provides retailers with metrics about their brand’... |
| 04.11.2010 | Go Try It On Raises Funding From Index Ventures; Launches iPhone App | Go Try It On, a startup that allows users to share photos of themselves and get opinions on their looks, has raised and undisclosed round of funding from Index Venture’s seed fund and angel investors, including Alex Zubillaga. In conjunctio... |
| 16.08.2010 | Guest post: The secret of scale, revenue and margin on a budget | This a guest post by David Hickson co-founder of stealth start-up tribesports.com. David’s a 12 year Internet-veteran and self professed geek-wannabe. He previously spent 5 years at lastminute.com, and was a founding shareholder and Head of... |
| 25.07.2010 | Fashion is the new black online | Jalak Jobanputra is senior vice president of the New York City Investment Fund.
Historically the fashion industry has been slow to adopt technology, so most venture investors have stayed away from investments in the sector. But that has beg... |
| 10.05.2010 | Jonathan Trevor, Builder Of Yahoo Pipes And YQL, Leaves For Polyvore | Another engineering star is leaving Yahoo, we’ve confirmed: Jonathan Trevor is moving on to Polyvore, a visual shopping search engine. Trevor, along with Daniel Raffel and Pasha Sadri, were the core product and engineering team behind the P... |
| 22.03.2010 | DEMO: Uppy Media urges fashionistas to tag their looks | 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!
Uppy Media is one of 65 companies chosen by Ventu... |
| 22.03.2010 | DEMO: Uppy Media urges fashionistas to tag their looks | Uppy Media is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective.
Bootstrapped startup Uppy Media is ... |
| 14.03.2010 | Go Try It On Will Be Your Wardrobe Consultant And Personal Stylist In One | I’m a big fan of sites that aim to socialize fashion and shopping decisions. Weardrobe, Polyvore and others are taking fashion and style to a new level with the ability to socialize looks and designers. A new fashion-focused site, Go Try It... |
| 24.02.2010 | Vogue's New iPhone App Will Style Your Wardrobe And Please Advertisers | Conde Nast has been working to fuse its fashion content with technology and social media. Lucky Magazine incorporated e-commerce into its online site and also partnered with Four Square. Today, Vogue Magazine is launching an innovative iPho... |
| 23.02.2010 | Like.com Expands Digital Fashion Empire With Virtual Styling Tool Couturious | Like.com has been steadily expanding its mini digital fashion empire. There is Like.com itself, a visual shopping engine; Covet.com; a recently launched visual shopping personalization application; and Weardrobe, which is a social platform ... |
| 24.12.2009 | Polyvore's Virtual Styling Tool Aims To Be More Social With Facebook Connect | As “Fashion 2.0” sites continue to innovate, the social component of these style-focused sites becomes an important tool for viral growth. Weardrobe, a site focused on capturing and sharing the street style of web users, was recently acquir... |
| 18.08.2009 | User-generated fashion mag Polyvore grabs $5.6 million | As fashion mags grapple with vanishing ad pages, user-generated fashion site Polyvore has raked in $5.6 million in a second round of funding.
Users on the site grab images of shoes, clothes and accessories from Polyvore’s library to create ... |
| 18.08.2009 | Polyvore Looks Stylin' In This New $5.6 Million Round Of Funding | In a world where print media is collapsing, it would seem that fashion magazines could easily make a case for why they’ll still exist in the future. As great as their content may or may not be, a large part of their success is about seeing ... |
| 11.10.2007 | Polyvore To Tempt Fashionistas To Create, Then Spend | Polyvore, founded by ex-Yahoo’er Pasha Sadri (he created Yahoo Pipes) will appeal to the fashionistas out there in the world.
Users install a bookmarklet and grab images from around the web (see demo here) – this part is very similar to wha... |
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