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| Feb 10, 2015 | Social Commerce Site Fancy Raises Around $20M In Series D Led By Carlos Slim Jr And Japan’s CCC | Some hot news for Fancy, the social shopping platform based out of New York. The company has raised a Series D round of around $20 million, a strategic investment led by Mexico’s Carlos Slim Domit and CCC, a holding company out of Japan who... |
| Jun 27, 2014 | Retailer 'The Fancy' may raise new funding at a $1.2B valuation | Retail service The Fancy could be the latest startup to join the billion-dollar valuation club upon raising a new round of investment, reports Bloomberg.
The Fancy is an online retail service that presents a pinboard-style layout of quirky,... |
| Jun 27, 2014 | Retailer 'The Fancy' may raise new funding at a $1.2B valuation | 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!
Retail service The Fancy could be the latest star... |
| Jul 8, 2013 | The Fancy gets $53 million from AmEx and Will Smith | Social shopping website now reportedly valued at $600 million
Social shopping website the Fancy, a rival of Pinterest, has just raised a big new round, giving the company a huge new valuation as well.
The Fancy has raised a new round worth ... |
| Jul 8, 2013 | The Fancy reportedly getting $53M from AmEx and Will Smith | Credit card company American Express and actor Will Smith are apparently sinking $53 million into online retail service The Fancy, according to a Bloomberg report that cites anonymous sources familiar with the matter.
The Fancy is a site th... |
| Jul 8, 2013 | The Fancy reportedly getting $53M from AmEx and Will Smith | 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!
Credit card company American Express and actor Wi... |
| Jun 13, 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... |
| Mar 4, 2013 | ShopSavvy Partners With Capital One, Turns Its Mobile Wallet Into A Platform For Deals | ShopSavvy, the mobile application best known for its barcode-scanning and price comparison features, is today moving into personalized deals, through a new relationship with Capital One. The app will now show Capital One deals to any of the... |
| Mar 3, 2013 | Conde Nast Leads $20M Round In Boutique Marketplace Farfetch, Its Third E-Fashion Investment In 4 Weeks (Updated) | Farfetch, a London-based online marketplace for independent boutiques, has raised another $20 million, led by a new strategic backer, the fashion publishing powerhouse Conde Nast, along with participation from existing investors Index Ventu... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Google Launches Google+ Sign-In For Mobile And Web With New Selective And Interactive Sharing, One-Click Android App Installs | Google just announced a major update to its Google+ platform that aims to replace today’s ubiquitous Google sign-ins on third-party sites with Google+ logins. The new Google+ account-based logins, Google argues, offer far more features than... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Google+ Adds Sign-In Feature, Matching Facebook And Twitter | Slowly but surely, Google keeps building out its Google+ social network and becoming a stronger rival to Facebook. Today the company is announcing the ability to let people sign in on websites with their Google+ credentials instead of creat... |
| Feb 22, 2013 | Confirmed: Fancy Acquires Samplrs.com To Beef Up Its Artisanal Food Business | We haven’t heard too much from Fancy.com — a competitor to Pinterest and sites focused on social commerce — since it raised $26 million in October 2012, but this is changing today. Fancy has gobbled up Samplrs.com, a specialist in artisanal... |
| Feb 12, 2013 | Storenvy Goes From Getting Kicked Out Of YC To Raising A $5M Round | Note: This is the second friend in a row whose funding I’m covering this week. Looks like my friends are doing okay for for themselves despite the Series A Crunch. Have at it, comments.
Storenvy, a platform for people who’d like to build cu... |
| Jan 23, 2013 | Startup News: Etsy Goes Shopping for a Twee App Maker and Dwolla Goes to the Gov | Mr. Vinh. (Photo: Tumblr.com)
Shopping Site Goes Shopping Back in 2011, Khoi Vinh, the former design director for The New York Times’s website, attempted to launch an iPad collage maker called Mixel that even Taylor Swift would love. The in... |
| Dec 20, 2012 | Lyst Doing $1M+ Sales A Month – More Following Gucci There Than On TheFancy | The whole fashion-meets-tech play is really only still emerging, with a wide gamut of businesses pimping various ideas from matching your personal tastes in clothes via your social graph, to literally mapping your body to fit custom-made it... |
| Dec 19, 2012 | Screw The Mall: How To Super-Charge Your Lame Gift-Giving With Digital Tools | I am, historically speaking, not the best gift-giver. I like to think that I don’t drop the ball entirely, but I’m not one of these people who naturally and instinctively knows exactly what someone would love and where to get it. The tricki... |
| Nov 20, 2012 | Wantster, Canada’s Answer To Fancy, Picks Up $4M From Radio Station Owners Evanov Communications | Wantster, a site founded earlier this year in Canada that lets users collect images of things they want from around the web and pin them on a central page — a kind of Canadian Fancy — has announced a round of funding: $4 million from Evanov... |
| Nov 16, 2012 | Y Combinator-Backed Balanced Raises $1.4M To Provide A Payment Platform For Peer-To-Peer Marketplaces | There are a growing number of peer-to-peer marketplaces out there, helping to match up workers and sellers with products or skills, with buyers who wish to take advantage of them. But for those marketplaces to work, they don’t just need pay... |
| Oct 31, 2012 | Startup News: NASA Images of Sandy Sold for Charity and Boxee Comes to a Walmart Near You | Fancy’s fanciest fan. (Photo: wikipedia.org)
Ceci N’est Pas Une Sandy The affordable-art-dealing website 20 x 200 is now selling a print of a NASA satellite image of Hurricane Sandy. All proceeds from the sale will go to the Red Cross to he... |
| Oct 30, 2012 | Following Its $26M In New Funding, Fancy Talks Numbers: 2M+ Users & $200K In Weekly Sales | A quick update on Pinterest rival Fancy’s massive $26 million round of funding, uncovered via an SEC filing yesterday. Because of the hurricane, the NYC-based team had evacuated the city, making it difficult to track down and speak with the... |
| Oct 29, 2012 | Bring out the caviar: The Fancy gets $26M | 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!
Pinterest competitor The Fancy become a little fa... |
| Oct 29, 2012 | The Fancy raises $26M for Pinterest-like marketplace | Company adds PPR CEO and AmEx Chairman to board of directors
Just this past summer, there were rumors of acquisition talks between Apple and Pinterest rival, The Fancy. Now it looks like those talks have come to naught, as The Fancy has jus... |
| Oct 29, 2012 | So No Apple Acquisition, Then? Pinterest Rival Fancy Raises $26 Million In New Funding | Pinterest rival Fancy was rumored to be in acquisition talks with Apple, but that outcome is sounding more distant today because the startup has raised a big, new round of funding instead. According to a new SEC filing, Fancy has raised jus... |
| Sep 20, 2012 | Fashion site The Fancy now offers monthly goodie bags. (Birthday cake not included) | 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!
Subscription boxes are all the rage these days. O... |
| Sep 20, 2012 | The Fancy Launches Its Own Monthly Subscription Box | This one appears to be Brooklyn themed? (Photo: The Fancy)
The Fancy*, the New York City-based Pinterest competitor where users can browse and share products they love, has decided to enter the subscription box service. We thought you were ... |
| Sep 19, 2012 | Startup News: David Karp And Rachel Sterne Get Judgemental and Louis C.K. Inspires a Startup | (Photo: wikipedia.org)
Game Over? There seems to be a mass exodus at Zynga. It was reported yesterday that Wilson Kriegel, the former chief revenue officer of Omgpop, has now left the company. In the last 30 days, the company has lost its C... |
| Aug 14, 2012 | ShopVibe launches assistant for online and in-store bargain hunting (exclusive) | For shopaholics, it’s easy to pile up credit card debt, and lose track of how much you’re actually spending. ShopVibe, a Silicon Valley-based startup launching today, was founded by two serial entrepreneurs who needed a better way to help t... |
| Aug 5, 2012 | Meet Le Geek: Francois-Henri Pinault | Editor’s note: Joe Einhorn, chief executive of fashion pinning/buying site The Fancy, interviews François-Henri Pinault, Chairman and CEO of PPR, in the article below. PPR the Paris-based group that owns luxury brands such as Gucci, Yves Sa... |
| Jul 12, 2012 | Fashion Aggregation FTW: Lyst Picks Up $5M, Now Lists DFJ Esprit As Backer | The fashion world has taken to the internet like fish to water — with thousands of brands and retailers complemented by the rise of fashion bloggers, social media and new technologies to make it easier than ever to buy online. But all that ... |
| Jul 12, 2012 | The Fancy’s E-Commerce Expansion Continues With Launch Of “Buy” Button For Web Publishers | This week, New York-based The Fancy, a Pinterest-like site with a focus on not just browsing, but buying from its collection of inspirational imagery, began encouraging users to share its content on social networks in exchange for cash rewa... |
| Jul 9, 2012 | The Fancy gives you cash for sharing the stuff you love | The Fancy, a social photo-sharing site that is New York’s answer to Pinterest, is offering cash rewards to users who share the stuff they love.
Starting today, anytime you share a product that you fancy, you’ll receive a link with a referra... |
| Jun 26, 2012 | Science buys Pinpuff to tap into Pinterest influencers | LA-based incubator taps into technology that identifies people with fans
Science, the recently launched LA-based incubator with $10 million under management, said it's bought Pinpuff, a start-up with technology to identify people who can in... |
| Jun 22, 2012 | Airtime calls for a new marketing approach: Get ready for the social discovery era | Airtime must be in a gang because it continues to receive a beat down ever since it launched. While some of the criticism was warranted, there was a large point missed by the masses: Social Discovery Platforms — such as Airtime, Pinterest, ... |
| Jun 22, 2012 | Airtime calls for a new marketing approach: Get ready for the social discovery era | 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!
Airtime must be in a gang because it continues to... |
| Jun 19, 2012 | Startup News: New Dating Site Lets You Check Out Your Friends’ Friends; The Fancy Goes DIY | Now for sale on The Fancy: Cookie Monster cupcakes. (Photo: The Fancy)
The new OKCupid TheDatable, a new social dating site, allows users to tag their single or, more selectively, “datable” Facebook friends—so that prospective dates can bro... |
| Jun 18, 2012 | The Fancy and Zaarly team up to offer stylish local 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!
Just a few short days ago, The Fancy added social... |
| Jun 18, 2012 | The Fancy and Zaarly team up to offer stylish local commerce | Just a few short days ago, The Fancy added social commerce to its Pinterest-like discovery and sharing service. Today, the fast-moving startup added local commerce via Zaarly’s peer-to-peer marketplace.
Zaarly is simple: You need something ... |
| May 30, 2012 | Fancy beats Pinterest to social commerce, but did it sell its soul for cash? | Elegant discovery and sharing tool Fancy released a new iPhone and iPad app today, adding some simple social commerce to the mix that might just change the whole experience.
If you haven’t heard of Fancy, think of it this way: Fancy is to P... |
| May 30, 2012 | Pinterest Rival Fancy Brings Social Commerce To iPhone & iPad, Announces 1 Million Users | Pinterest rival Fancy, which thinks it has figured out social commerce (or at least, before Pinterest did), is announcing today that it has reached 1 million users as well as an average of $50,000 worth of commerce through its service each ... |
| May 30, 2012 | Fancy beats Pinterest to social commerce, but did it sell its soul for cash? | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Elegant discovery and sharing tool Fancy released a new iPhone and iPad app today, adding some simple social commerce to the mix that m... |
| May 1, 2012 | Startup News: Time’s NYC 10 in Tech, Rx Sunglasses Online and Amazon’s Hot Sister | (Source: Warby Parker)
PERFECT TEN. Last Wednesday Time Inc. brought together editors from many of their news properties to bestow upon us the “10 NYC Startups to Watch.” Only in the startup picking game since lat year’s Internet Week, Time... |
| Apr 23, 2012 | Pinterest Rival Fancy Gets Fancier With “Match By Color” Visual Search | High-end design, fashion and travel-focused Pinterest rival The Fancy is rolling out several new features today, including a new slideshow option, the addition of four more languages, and a new visual search engine that allows users to sear... |
| Apr 19, 2012 | Fancy, New York’s Own Pinterest Competitor, Doubled Its Users to 500K In Two Months | The last time we checked in with social commerce startup Fancy was back in February, around the time Kanye West tweeted out his approval for “My friend Joseph’s site.” The Joseph in question is ThingD founder Joe Einhorn, the wunderkind ent... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | You think Pinterest is big? Here comes The Fancy, with a brand spanking new e-commerce platform | The Fancy, a “place to express yourself around things you see that you find interesting,” is launching a serious e-commerce business today with its massive database of more than 100 million things and one billion-plus associated data points... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | Don’t Just Pin It, Buy It: Pinterest Rival Fancy Figures Out Social Commerce | Amid the increased speculation surrounding Silicon Valley darling Pinterest’s forthcoming revenue model, competitor Fancy, a social photo-clipping service popular among the style-conscious set, has been quietly working on revenue ideas of i... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | You think Pinterest is big? Here comes The Fancy, with a brand spanking new e-commerce platform | 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!
The Fancy, a “place to express yourself around th... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | The Fancy–Kind of Like Pinterest But All About the Money | With more than 11 million users Pinterest is the current King Kong of sites featuring curated collections of images of doilies and Quaker-style furniture (among many other things). The Fancy may have trumped Pinterest in one respect–busines... |
| Feb 1, 2012 | Rumgr raises $500k from Tony Hsieh and other angels | Social and mobile commerce site focuses on helping you discover items nearby
(Correction: to reflect the post-valuation)
There's something to be said about the serendipitous nature of finding something.
For instance, the other day my husban... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Homemade Combination-Secured Flash Drive Is Steampunk Done Right | Once again, an example of how Steampunk can actually be pulled off. This one-off flash drive was created by a Russian guy, who modeled it in 3D, had the components cast or printed, and then assembled it himself (you can see the whole projec... |
| Feb 24, 2011 | Instagram Adds Real-Time Notifications To Its API | Today Instagram is adding real-time notifications to its API. What this means in practice is that developers will now be able to get instant notifications when new photos are added by specific users or with specific tags, geo-tags or a more... |
| Feb 24, 2011 | Instagram Unveils Realtime API With Foodspotting, Fancy, Momento, Flipboard, About.me And Others | It really is kind of amazing that Instagram has shot past two million users in just a few months with only an iPhone app. No Android app, no website, no real third-party support. But starting today, that changes as they’re finally ready to ... |
| Jan 9, 2011 | Daniel Raffel's Favorite New Geek Stuff Of 2010 | Daniel Raffel is a former Yahoo product manager and a newbie entrepreneur. A year ago we asked him to write a guest post telling us about his favorite new products, projects and features of 2009. The post below is an updated list of his fav... |
| Dec 28, 2010 | Fancy Is A Social Shopping List For The Design-Obsessed | We recently wrote about thingd, the ambitious startup that wants to build a “database of every thing in the world.” The startup, which has raised funding from a group of impressive investors, recently rolled out Fancy, a social shopping/blo... |
| Nov 10, 2010 | thingd: The Super Ambitious, Low-Profile But Red Hot Startup You've Never Heard Of | The New York Observer has shined a light on thingd, a stealthy New York-based startup that is currently attracting a lot of high-profile attention – and funds – in tech circles. Turns out it’s a pretty ambitious venture run by some really s... |
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