Beeing founded in 2006, BuyVIP is a leading European online shopping club. The company offers brand manufacturers to sell their brand products at special prices in a closed user group. The Spanish company was acquired by Amazon in 2010.
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2005
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Capnamic V... | capnamic.c... |
Mentions in press and media 15
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| 14.06.2011 | Sindelantal gets a €1m boost for online food delivery | Sindelantal (meaning: without an apron), which launched a year and a half ago to tackle online restaurant take out and delivery in Spain, is announcing a €1m round from Michael Kleindl, VitaminaK and earlier investors. It follows initial fu... |
| 31.03.2011 | Offerum closes 2 million euro second round for international push | Offerum, a Spanish group buying site launched exactly a year ago by Jesus Monleon and Vicente Arias, also founders of Seedrocket, has closed a second round of funding totaling a hefty €2 million. It follows an initial €500,000 investment. T... |
| 28.09.2010 | Private shopping club Brands4friends ratchets up €1m in sales in a single day | Germany’s leading online private shopping club, Brands4friends, has hit somewhat of a milestone this week, ratcheting up €1 million worth of sales in a single day. Just in time for its third birthday, apparently. The site now claims 3.5 mil... |
| 23.09.2010 | The 2010 Bully Award winners are… Germany and the UK top the list | The winners of the 2010 Bully Award – all thirty of them – were announced last night at the White Bull Summit 2010 in Barcelona, honouring the leading European technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) companies. Germany and the UK top... |
| 30.08.2010 | White Bull takes a snapshot of Europe's hottest tech companies | There’s a brand new tech awards in town called the Bully Award (no, it’s not for rewarding the big angry kid at school) and it’s being put together by the people behind a new European tech event organiser, White Bull Summits. Although you c... |
| 14.07.2010 | Oportunista attempts to break Spain's mobile coupon barrier | Oportunista.com, a coupon-finding service local to Spain, has just launched an iPhone app (developed by MUBIQUO), an important missing piece for a company that specializes in online coupons. The company was founded two years ago after Rodri... |
| 25.02.2010 | Brands4friends appoints ex-VC for M&A action | [Berlin] Germany’s leading online private shopping club, Brands4friends, has appointed ex-VC Olivier Schuepbach as Director of International & Corporate Development where he’ll be spearheading the Berlin-based startup’s international ex... |
| 18.02.2010 | Brands4friends invests in Secretsales – private buying clubs remain hot! | [UK/Germany] Private buying clubs have become such a hot item of late, it’s perhaps inevitable that we’re starting to see a move towards consolidation. Germany’s leading online private shopping club, Brands4friends, has invested in the UK’s... |
| 04.12.2009 | Amazon and Vente-Privee in talks over 2 billion Euro acquisition, say sources | [France] US retailing giant Amazon is in deep and secret negotiations with Vente-Privee, the French private sales club which has taken the ecommerce and fashion industries by storm, our sources say. We asked Xavier Court, marketing director... |
| 11.11.2009 | Private buying clubs are still hot! Debaeque Venture Capital acquires 10% stake in BuyVIP | [Spain] European buying clubs remain a hot item, along with the fashion brands they sell at a discount. Barcelona-based Venture Capital firm Debaeque has acquired a 10% stake in BuyVIP, although the actual price is undisclosed. In April, ho... |
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