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Turn items you don't want into Points. Use Points to get things you'll love!

1) Declutter:
List all the stuff you don't use - from video games to clothing to jewelry, for free

2) Earn Points
Rack up Points when others buy your listings or earn them for FREE using Listia Rewards.
https://www.listia.com/rewards

3) Reward Yourself
Discover and get stuff you'll love from other members or the Listia Rewards Store.
https://www.listia.com/rewards-store

Start here, and get 250 free Points: https://www.listia.com/signup

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Get Your Feet Wet: We’ll instantly give you more Points when you list your first item.

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Location: United States, California, Santa Clara

Employees: 11-50

Total raised: $10.75M

Founded date: 2009

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Date	Name	Website
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21.07.2020	Y Combinat...	ycombinato...
18.07.2021	General Ca...	generalcat...

Funding Rounds 2

Date	Series	Amount	Investors
03.10.2013	Series A	$9M	General Ca...
19.04.2011	-	$1.75M	-

Mentions in press and media 30

Date	Title	Description
30.04.2020	Props Project distributed app platform secures $2M in token sale and moves to Algorand Since you’re here … Send us a News Tip EXTRACT THE SIGNAL FROM THE NOISE Cookies	The blockchain-based distributed app network Props Project today announced the company raised approximately $2 million in token-sale strategic financing led by Union Square Ventures and Borderless Capital. Props also announced that it would...
30.01.2020	Listia Raised $15M With Its XNK ICO. Now It's Ditching the Token for Props	Listia is discontinuing work on the Ink protocol, a cryptocurrency built for marketplaces, CoinDesk has learned. The project was funded with a $15 million token sale for the XNK ERC-20 token, which announced results in January 2018. Listia,...
04.07.2018	PassageX, Listia Partner to Use Blockchain to Resell Tickets	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Alex Linebrink is on a mission to cut out the middle man. Linebrink is the founder and CEO of Passage, a Detroit-based ticketing startup. The company’s bread and butter is ser...
14.12.2015	Listia Isn’t Just For Swapping Free Stuff Anymore	Listia started out as a way for people to swap free stuff, but now its users can actually make money. The new feature takes advantage of Listia’s existing system, where users give away their stuff in exchange for credits. Those credits, in ...
21.05.2015	41 Entrepreneurs Share Their Unusual Hobbies	Hobbies are activities, interests, and pastimes that we tend to undergo for our pleasure during our free time. They are fun and we easily obsess about them because they are our escape from the stress and pressure of startup life. Bill Gates...
27.04.2015	Startups Vie for “Craigslist Killer” Title As Mobile Claims Focus	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Startups have spent years trying to dethrone Craigslist as the ruler of selling used goods—and if not to dethrone, at least to capture some of its users for their apps. Now a ...
27.08.2014	23 Entrepreneurs Share Their Favorite Form of Caffeine	Coffee is an entrepreneurial cliché at this point. “He would sit as his computer late into the night, fueled by coffee and Red Bull and passion.” “They were heads down for 72 hours before the release, drinking endless cups of coffee from th...
05.08.2014	Happy 5th Birthday Listia (YC S09)!	See the fill infographic here.
03.10.2013	Listia (YC S09) raises $9M from General Catalyst for its used and free goods marketplace—mobile use up 2X in 3 months	Listia, the marketplace for used and free goods, has closed a $9 million Series A led by General Catalyst, with partner Neil Sequeira joining the startup’s board. As mobile growth takes off for the startup, the team will be using that finan...
02.10.2013	Listia, A Used Goods Marketplace, Raises $9M To Attack Mobile	Listia, the marketplace for used and free goods, has closed a $9 million Series A led by General Catalyst, with partner Neil Sequeira joining the startup’s board. As mobile growth takes off for the startup, the team will be using that finan...
02.10.2013	Listia Closes $9M Series A Funding	Listia, a Mountain View, Calif.-based online trading marketplace, raised $9m in Series A funding. The round was led by General Catalyst Partners. In conjunction with the funding, Neil Sequeira, a partner at General Catalyst, will join Listi...
02.10.2013	Listia Secures $9M in Series A	MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Online marketplace where people can trade items has closed a $9 million Series A led by General Catalyst. >> Click here for more funding data on Listia >> To export Listia funding data to PDF and Excel, cl...
21.01.2013	Listia Partners With Best Buy To Let You Trade Old Stuff For New Electronics	It’s getting more tempting to give away used goods on Listia, the marketplace startup backed by Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz (among others), thanks to a new partnership with Best Buy. When you give away “old stuff” on Listia, you ea...
18.07.2012	Give Away Old Stuff, Get New Stuff: Listia Opens A Rewards Store	Listia, a startup that allows users to exchange free goods, is expanding its model today by taking its new Rewards Store out of beta testing. On the Listia site, people can give away things that they don’t want or need anymore. When you giv...
18.07.2012	Listia (YC S09) launches a Rewards Store, grows 400% in the last 6 months	Listia, a startup that allows users to exchange free goods, is expanding its model today by taking its new Rewards Store out of beta testing. On the Listia site, people can give away things that they don’t want or need anymore. When you gi...
06.06.2012	Freebie Marketplace Listia Wants To Take On Craigslist In Local Swaps	Listia, the Y Combinator- and Andreessen Horowitz-backed site where people can exchange free goods, is unveiling a new feature called Listia Local in four cities: San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. In a lot of ways, this see...
01.05.2011	The P2P Evolution	Editor’s note: Guest author Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semilshah. Many years ago, after graduating college, ...
01.05.2011	Listia Raises $1.75M in Funding	Listia, a San Jose, CA-based auction site where people bid on other people’s items using credits instead of real money, raised $1.75m in funding. The round was led by Andreessen-Horowitz, with participation from SV Angel, Founder Collective...
22.04.2011	Funding roundup - week ending 04/22/11	Over $450 million raised for over 25 startups from the seed to late stage Seed-stage Kohort raised a $3 million seed round led by IA Ventures with participation from RRE Ventures, Countour, FF Venture Capital, and both David Cohen and David...
19.04.2011	Andreessen Horowitz Leads $1.75M Round In Freebie Marketplace Listia	Listia, a marketplace for free stuff, has raised $1.75 million in funding from an impressive roster of investors and angels. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from SV Angel, Founder Collective, High Line Venture Pa...
19.04.2011	What you need to know - 04/19/11	Twitter bid-battling UberMedia over TweetDeck; Wal-Mart acquires social media startup Kosmix Adaptly, a platform for social media site advertisements, raised $2.7 million in seed and Series A funding from First Round Capital, Charles River ...
19.04.2011	Listia Racks Up $1.75M	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints San Jose, CA-based Listia, an online swap service that helps users give away things they don’t want in return for credits that they can use to bid on stuff they do want, said ...
05.11.2010	Freebie Startup Listia Now Helps Businesses Hold Give-Aways	Everybody loves free stuff. And, believe it or not, plenty of businesses love giving it away — freebies can help raise awareness of a company and increase customer loyalty. Thing is, it isn’t always so easy for a business to give something ...
18.03.2010	Notifo Is A Simple Mobile Notifications Platform For Anything	I’m hopelessly addicted to Push Notifications on the iPhone. Unfortunately, the system is flawed, in that the more notifications you get, the worse the experience is because it can be hard to manage them all. And one reason I always have th...
13.10.2009	Listia Gets An Angel Round To Help People Give/Get Free Stuff	Listia, which launched just two months ago, is one of those startups that has grabbed my attention. And apparently investors like it, too. The company as raised a $400,000 angel round of financing from Implistic Capital. Partner Adam Pearsa...
19.08.2009	The YCombinator list: Bump, Mixpanel, JobPic take off with newest class	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. YCombinator, the Silicon Valley start-up incubator, launched its ninth class of companies today. Here is the initial list of companies....
19.08.2009	Silicon Valley Elite Flock To Y Combinator Demo Day	I’m here at Y Combinator’s Demo Day, where the latest batch of the incubator program’s startups are showing off the fruits of their labor to a room of press and VCs from around Silicon Valley. The turnout today is huge — VCs representing bi...
19.08.2009	The YCombinator list: Bump, Mixpanel, JobPic take off with newest class	YCombinator, the Silicon Valley start-up incubator, launched its ninth class of companies today. Here is the initial list of companies. (Some are in stealth and we’ll report on them later in the year as they launch.): FlightCaster: Predicts...
06.08.2009	Freenapkin Claims Ownership Over Idea Of Giving Junk Away	Yesterday I wrote about new startup Listia, which has an innovative way to help people give and get free stuff that works better than Craigslist. The idea is that you use “credits” to bid on items, which helps the giver by auto-selecting th...
05.08.2009	Listia Is An Awesome Way To Give And Get Free Stuff	New Y Combinator funded startup Listia launched this morning, and I already love it. It’s a really smart way to give stuff away for free. We tend to give away a lot of the random stuff people send us at TechCrunch. Some of it is trivial – s...

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Investors 3

Funding Rounds 2

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