Shopit is a shopping search engine aiming to gather all products, retailers and brands available online in one start page. It also allows customers to save products they like and own, invite friends, share, get advice, and use other social shopping functionalities.
Location: Kenya, Nairobi Area, Nairobi
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $2.5M
Founded date: 2012
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Almi Inves... | almi.se |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 24.10.2008 | - | $2.5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 4
| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.02.2009 | ShopIt Acquires Triana Global, Launches Ad Network For Social Networks | ShopIt, a social commerce platform that enables people to set up an online store and sell goods through a variety of social networking services, has finished integrating its recently acquired Triana Global publisher network and relaunching ... |
| 24.10.2008 | Shopit snags $2.5M for shopping widge | Shopit, provider of a widget-based shopping service that allows users to sell and buy items through social networking sites, brought in $2.5 million of what it hopes will be a $7 million second round of funding. Contributions came from Emer... |
| 15.01.2008 | Cartfly, other e-commerce widgets, make money without relying on ads | Widgets, the embeddable chunks of code on web pages that can feature anything from videos to RSS feeds, have proven to be a great way to reach lots of users. But how do they make money? Advertising in a widget is an obvious way to try. Anot... |
| 12.11.2007 | The Latest Thing in eCommerce: You | Many of the experiences we have were conceived and designed by someone else prior to us having them. When we go to the supermarket, for instance, it seems our entire experience – however idiosyncratic - has been played out and anticipated. ... |