Acquired by A.C. Moore Arts & Crafts. Provider of an online shopping platform intended to sell art and crafts online. The company's online shopping platform offers instructional videos for DIY projects in a number of arts and crafts categories alongside options to buy craft supplies and tools needed to complete them, enabling customers to buy arts and craft supplies online via curated, limited-time sale events.
Location: United States, Illinois, Chicago
Total raised: $10.8M
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Western Te... | westerntec... |
| - | Dashfire | dashfire.c... |
| - | Greycroft | greycroft.... |
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 25.01.2016 | - | $6.2M | - |
| 07.05.2015 | Series A | $3.6M | Greycroft |
| 10.09.2013 | Seed | $1M | - |
Mentions in press and media 14
| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.11.2017 | A.C. Moore Acquires Blitsy, Invests In Zibbet | A.C. Moore Arts and Crafts, the specialty retailer operating 135 brick and mortar locations across the East Coast with global headquarters in New Jersey and China, today announced two major investments that will fuel groundbreaking digital ... |
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| 25.01.2016 | Fast-Growing Blitsy Gains Largest Investor To Date With German Media Giant Burda | Chicago Native E-Commerce Company to Continue Worldwide Expansion |
| 25.01.2016 | Online Arts and Crafts Retailer Blitsy Raises $6.2M From German Media Giant | Blitsy, the Chicago e-commerce startup that allows people to buy arts and craft supplies, announced Monday that it has raised a $6.2 million Series B. The new funding, led by German media group Hubert Burda Media--with participation from ex... |
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| 07.05.2015 | Greycroft Leads $3.6M Series A Funding Round in Blitsy | Funding to Drive Continuous Product Growth and Support of Blitsy’s Revolutionary Digital, Mobile and Social Community Offering in $30 Billion Crafting Industry |
| 07.05.2015 | Blitsy Raises $3.6M in Series A | CHICAGO, IL, Blitsy, a leading arts and crafts e-Commerce company and community, today announced closing a $3.6 million Series A funding round. >> Click here for more funding data on Blitsy >> To export Blitsy funding data t... |
| 07.05.2015 | Blitsy Crafts Together a $3.6M Series A from Greycroft Partners and Several Chicago Investors | Earlier this month, Etsy, the marketplace for homemade products, went public and became NYC's biggest VC-backed tech exit ever. The e-commerce site, which was valued at $1.8B heading into its IPO, saw its valuation balloon up to $3.5B on it... |
| 07.05.2015 | Blitsy Closes $3.6M Series A Funding | Blitsy, a Chicago, IL-based arts and crafts e-Commerce company and community, closed $3.6m Series A funding round. The round was led by Greycroft Partners with support from new investor Data Point Capital, existing investors Chicago Venture... |
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