With online gift cards and e-gift certificates to every business, GiftRocket combines the thoughtfulness of gift cards with the flexibility of cash. Email or print, perfect every time.
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2010
Investors 1
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Mentions in press and media 7
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| 26.11.2012 | Giftly Looks to Disrupt Traditional Gift Card Market | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints When CEO Tim Bentley founded Giftly, a site that allows users to give gift certificates through recipients’ credit cards, he realized business would be heavily seasonal. The t... |
| 03.09.2012 | Digital Gifting Startup GiftRocket Hits Profitability, Announces API And Reduced Fees | GiftRocket, a 2011 Y Combinator grad, is a simple P2P digital gifting service that lets users send and receive digital gift cards via email. Originally, the startup was focused around location-based gifting, allowing friends to send each ot... |
| 08.12.2011 | A $100 Gift Card Isn’t Worth $100, Says GiftRocket | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints If you’ve already bought someone a gift card for the holidays, don’t read the rest of this article. It’ll just make you feel bad. Okay, still with me? It turns out most gift c... |
| 07.12.2011 | Backed By Angel Round, GiftRocket Goes Beyond The Check-In To Make Virtual Gift Giving Even Easier | GiftRocket, a graduate of this year’s Y Combinator spring class, launched behind a great idea. The startup wanted to marry gift carding with location-based services, so that friends could send gift cards to each other that could only be acc... |
| 01.05.2011 | Send virtual gift cards with GiftRocket | GiftRocket lets users send gift cards for any business in the U.S. People are really sick of gift cards, by which I mean I’M sick of gift cards. But I’ve also chatted with three startups in as many weeks that are based on the idea of taking... |
| 22.03.2011 | Y Combinator’s best startups ever? Here are my favorites | Was the most recent class of startups incubated by Y Combinator the best group ever? That’s what Garry Tan told me, and he should know — he was a YC alumnus through his simple blogging startup Posterous, and now he’s back at the famous incu... |
| 21.03.2011 | GiftRocket Lets You Send Gifts That Can Be Redeemed At Specific Locations | GiftRocket, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is launching this week a service that marries the concept of virtual gift cards with location-based services. Basically, GiftRocket lets you send money to a friend or relative in a snap, but also s... |