| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.01.2014 | Groupon Moves Into Flash Fashion, Buys Ideeli For $43M In Cash | More acquisitions for Groupon to widen the net of consumers using its platform for more than daily deals. Today it is announcing the acquisition of ideeli, a flash fashion retailer, for $43 million in cash. A potentially strategic gain for ... |
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Groupon is buying its way into new sectors — and ... |
| 13.01.2014 | Groupon Acquires Ideeli for $43M | Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) acquired Ideeli, a NYC-based online retail site, for $43m.
As said by CEO Eric Lefkofsky, Ideeli will help Groupon extend its fashion presence.
Launched in June 2007 and led by Stefan Pepe, Chief Executive Officer, id... |
| 23.11.2013 | Startup Shootout: Which e-commerce startups perform best on mobile? | Editor’s note: Keynote Systems’ Startup Shootout Index provides some insight into the three-screen challenge now facing anyone with a web presence. It’s the first website performance index to measure load times and completion percentages on... |
| 23.11.2013 | Startup Shootout: Which e-commerce startups perform best on mobile? | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Editor’s note: Keynote Systems’ Startup Shootout Index provides some insight into the three-screen challenge now facing anyone with a w... |
| 06.07.2013 | Flash Sales Site Ideeli Raises $12M More | It appears that flash sales site Ideeli has raised another $12 million in funding, according to an SEC filing from Friday. It’s unclear who the investors are in this round, but this raise would bring Ideeli’s total funding to $112 million. ... |
| 29.04.2013 | Rue La La’s Fischman Out as CEO—Joining Other Flash-Sales Execs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If you’re the CEO of a flash-sales fashion site, you might want to make sure your resume is in order. The career prospects are looking a little rocky right now.
Today, Boston-... |
| 21.11.2012 | Startup Shootout: Which startup sites are ready for holiday prime time? | Editor’s note: Keynote Systems’ Startup Shootout Index provides some insight into the three-screen challenge now facing anyone with a web presence. We’ll be bringing you a fresh set of data from Keynote every month. Check out previous Start... |
| 25.09.2012 | Deal Décor Brings Its Factory-Direct Furniture Discounts Nationwide | Fresh off the heels of a $1.2 million round of funding, the furniture-focused e-commerce site Deal Décor is today announcing its official nationwide launch. The company, which we once referred to as a “Groupon for Furniture,” to be fair, is... |
| 16.04.2012 | Startup shootout: How to hurt your mobile performance | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Editor’s note: Keynote Systems’ Startup Shootout Index provides some insight into the three-screen challenge now facing anyone with a w... |
| 23.09.2011 | Deal Decor To Launch A Groupon For Furniture | I’m not often the fan of startups that are “the this, for that,” but I think I could get into something like Deal Décor: it’s the Groupon for furniture. This San Francisco-based startup is using the group-buying model made popular by Groupo... |
| 22.07.2011 | Q2 Funding in NYC: “Shopping Facilitators” and Foursquare Rule | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Foursquare’s recent $50 million funding round may have grabbed headlines nationwide, but a close look at second-quarter venture rounds reveals another trend: Investors can’t g... |
| 30.04.2011 | ideeli Closes $41M Series C Financing | ideeli, Inc., a New York City-based members-only flash sale retail company in the mass-affluent segment, completed its $41m Series C financing.
The round was led by Next World Capital, with participation from Cue Ball Capital and existing s... |
| 28.04.2011 | Ideeli raises $41 million for members-only social shopping | New York-based Ideeli, a members-only shopping community — known commonly as a “Flash sales” site — has raised $41 million in its third round of funding.
The site, which has over 4 million members, offers limited-time offers on apparel, acc... |
| 28.04.2011 | Flash Sales Site Ideeli Raises $41 Million | Flash sales site Ideeli, which was founded in 2007, has raised $41 million in Series C funding led by Next World Capital with Cue Ball Capital, StarVest Partners, Constellation Growth Capital and Kodiak Venture Partner participating in the ... |
| 28.04.2011 | Gilt Rival Ideeli Raises $41 Million | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The proliferation of New York-based fashion websites continues: ideeli announced that it has raised a Series C funding round of $41 million. The company offers members-only, l... |
| 28.04.2011 | Flash Sale Competition Heats Up as Ideeli Raises $41 M. | New York has two of the biggest players in the flash sale sector, Gilt Groupe and Ideeli, both of which are growing fast and aiming at shoppers interested in bargains on high end designers.
Today Ideeli announced a $41 million raise, led by... |
| 03.12.2010 | BaubleBar Raises $1.1 Million From Accel, Founder Collective, And Lerer Ventures | Today, jewelry flash-sale site BaubleBar officially launched. Previously known as Eight1six, BaubleBar offers fashion jewelry at deep discounts for limited periods of time. The company was founded by Daniella Yacobovsky and Amy Jain, two re... |
| 25.07.2010 | Fashion is the new black online | Jalak Jobanputra is senior vice president of the New York City Investment Fund.
Historically the fashion industry has been slow to adopt technology, so most venture investors have stayed away from investments in the sector. But that has beg... |
| 05.05.2010 | RowNine Aims To Create A Pandora For Flash Sales | There are a plethora of flash sales sites on the web, with Gilt, Rue La La, HauteLook and Ideeli and many others offering members 50 to 70 percent off retail goods. With so many competitors, newbie RowNine is hoping to differentiate itself ... |
| 09.03.2010 | MyNines Launches As The Kayak For Private Sales | Online private sales is a growing business model that is rapidly becoming a staple of online shopping. Ideeli, Gilt Groupe, Vente-Privee, HauteLook and others are quickly gaining millions of users each and attracting significant amounts of ... |
| 07.12.2009 | Online Sample Sale Site Ideeli Raises A Whopping $20 Million | We’ve written about the rapid growth of online sample sales; with the latest news coming from the rumored acquisition of European sample sale site Vente-Privee by Amazon for an estimated $3.01 billion . Today, online shopping site Ideeli, w... |
| 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... |
| 27.11.2009 | Totsy Offers Deep Discounts For Moms, Partners With Genealogy App FamilyBuilder | While consumers around the U.S. are sniffing out Black Friday deals today, sample sale sites have emerged to provide members with serious discounts year round. Online sample sales sites such as Gilt Groupe, HauteLook, Ideeli, RueLaLa and ot... |
| 16.11.2009 | Social shopping | The next generation
Discount shopping Web sites are hardly new; Amazon has been around for almost 15 years and has reinvented itself time and time again to keep up with the changing landscape. But, with the recession taking such a strong ho... |
| 31.10.2009 | The Rebirth Of The Sample Sale | Sample sales are an amazing resource for marked down goods for both mainstream and luxury brands. Online private sample sales are picking up serious speed. Here is how they work: big designers, such as Marc Jacobs or Versace, place excess i... |
| 12.10.2009 | The $1.5 billion scramble for Vente Privee by Gilt, eBay and Amazon | [France] On stage at last year’s Le Web an argument broke out between co-founder Loic Le Meur and TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington over whether Europe was capable of producing a ‘big win’ Web company or whether Skype was, perhaps, just a one-... |
| 17.12.2007 | Roundup: Search Wikia to take on Google, Adready, Ideeli, EyeQ, more | Here’s the latest action:
1. Search Wikia could go live by Christmas, to take on Google
2. Nick Denton, the nemesis of Silicon Valley, makes himself editor of Gawker
3. DocStoc, fresh with cash, gives away $50 Amazon gift certificate daily ... |