| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.01.2016 | P2P fashion site Threadflip closes, partners with Le Tote | Threadflip, which had 1.5M users, will cease operations on Wednesday
Something seems to be happening in the online fashion space, with a number of companies shutting down or downsizing.
The latest to go down the tube is peer-to-peer fashion... |
| 12.01.2016 | RIP Threadflip | Threadflip, an online consignment marketplace for women’s clothing, is no more as of Wednesday at midnight. An email sent to users explains that the startup, founded in 2011, will shut down operations and roll into clothing rental startup, ... |
| 14.09.2015 | 81 Sites To Find Side Gigs To Earn More Money Now | Who doesn't need more money? If you're not up for forex trading, selling an organ on the black market or dabbling in illicit activity, income on the side is easier to find than ever before, thanks to the burgeoning freelance economy and the... |
| 06.08.2015 | Snobswap Raises A Million To Bring Brick-And-Mortar Consignment Shops Online | A startup working to bring offline brick-and-mortar consignment shops into the e-commerce age, Snobswap, has raised over a million dollars in seed funding to expand what it describes as its “luxury online mall.” While today, these mom-and-p... |
| 10.06.2015 | Where Does Your Favorite US App Rank in Terms of Quality? | Believe it or not, there’s a company out there that combs through half a billion ratings and user reviews submitted across more than 30 million apps in the Android and iOS app stores. Why do they do this?
Well, they’ve taken it upon themsel... |
| 08.08.2014 | Luxury Consignment Reseller Snobswap Grabs $700K To Bring Brick-And-Mortar Shops Online | Snobswap, the D.C.-based online shopping resale site with a funny but memorable name, is one of many new entrants in a growing market focused on bringing the experience of shopping for second-hand clothing and other accessories online. And,... |
| 21.07.2014 | Threadflip Raises $13M in Series B Funding | Threadflip, a San Francisco, CA-based fashion marketplace for women, raised $13m in a Series B funding.
The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from existing investors Baseline Ventures, First Round Capital, and Sha... |
| 21.07.2014 | Threadflip sells fashionistas' clothes for them, grabs $13M to scale | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Fashion marketplace Threadflip today announced a ... |
| 21.07.2014 | Threadflip sells fashionistas' clothes for them, grabs $13M to scale | Fashion marketplace Threadflip today announced a $13 million funding round to expand its online consignment shop.
Founded in 2012, Threadflip is a marketplace where women, for a fee, can list fashion items they’d like to sell, as well as pu... |
| 20.07.2014 | Threadflip Raises $13 Million in Series B, Plans To Grow Workforce by 40% | Threadflip, the online consignment marketplace for women’s clothing, announced $13 million in Series B funding today. Norwest Venture Partners led the round, with participation from previous investors Baseline Ventures, First Round Capital ... |
| 04.03.2014 | How Modern Marketplaces Like Uber And Airbnb Build Trust To Achieve Liquidity | Anand Iyer Contributor
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Editor’s note: Anand Iyer is the Head of Product at Threadflip. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Hitpost, acquired by Yahoo, and managed product at IGN ... |
| 07.02.2014 | The Best Sellers On Women’s Used-Clothes Sites Will Probably Surprise You | ReadWriteShop is an occasional series about the intersection of technology and commerce.
Today’s women’s fashion “re-commerce” websites are certainly no bargain bins. Sites like Threadflip, Poshmark, Bib + Tuck, LikeTwice, and Thredup are r... |
| 22.12.2013 | For Holiday Shopping, Mobile Apps Bring Out My Inner Grinch | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
Every week for this column, I write about something related to mobile techno... |
| 10.11.2013 | How Mobile Alters Traditional Network Effects In Marketplaces | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil. (A special thanks to Simon Rothman, a partner at Greylock and a noted expert... |
| 11.10.2013 | No More Grimy Thrift Store Finds: The Polished Re-Commerce Model Is Here | Thrift shopping is a harrowing experience. Anyone who has ever stepped inside a thrift store knows it is a haven of ill-fitting clothes, mysterious stains and the overwhelming smell of mothballs and sadness.
Luckily, fashion re-commerce web... |
| 23.09.2013 | Threadflip Brings Its Fashion Marketplace To iPad | Online and mobile marketplace Threadflip, which lets you clean out your closet and shop those from others, is today publicly debuting its updated mobile application, now available for the first time on iPad. The company had previously said ... |
| 22.09.2013 | Poshmark, The Mobile Marketplace For Women To Sell And Swap Clothes, Crosses 1M Items Sold So Far This Year | App downloads are key metrics for all mobile-focused startups, but not many early-stage companies in the space can cite revenue-generating figures alongside their user growth. But Poshmark, the mobile marketplace that lets women swap and se... |
| 16.08.2013 | Startups Apparently Do Not Care That Android Is Better | In a must-read post for the tech industry, Twitter experience designer and serial startup founder Paul Stamatiou writes: “Android is Better.” His op-ed serves as something of a wake-up call for the industry, where developers building the ne... |
| 01.08.2013 | Threadflip gets more social to sell billions of dollars hiding in women’s closets | American women have $50 billion worth of unworn clothing in their closets. Online thrift store Threadflip released a major update today to help put those forsaken garments to use.
Threadflip is a resale marketplace for women’s clothes. Wome... |
| 01.08.2013 | Threadflip gets more social to sell billions of dollars hiding in women’s closets | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
American women have $50 billion worth of unworn c... |
| 30.05.2013 | Re-commerce Gets A Revamp With Threadflip’s New iPhone App Built For An Exploding Mobile Audience | Threadflip, the online and mobile marketplace that helps users clean out their closets, or buy from those who are doing just that, is today introducing a completely revamped mobile experience for its iOS application following a surge of gro... |
| 03.04.2013 | Disownership is the new normal: the rise of the shared economy (infographic) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
“You don’t own me” is not just an idea for 1960s ... |
| 03.04.2013 | Disownership is the new normal: the rise of the shared economy (infographic) | “You don’t own me” is not just an idea for 1960s ballads. “Disownership” is a national trend in America right now, as Internet startups transform the way people consume goods and services.
Consumer attitudes and behaviors surrounding rentin... |
| 28.03.2013 | High-End Fashion Startup Material Wrld Makes Its Official Debut | Material Wrld, the fashion startup seed funded by Warby Parker and Bonobos investor Great Oaks VC, is today making its public debut. The e-commerce site has come a long way since the beta it had running late last year, and to kick off its l... |
| 27.03.2013 | eBay’s new ‘Sell it Forward’ program channels your hoarding impulses for charity | We all have secret stashes of stuff we rarely use, and yet these items can be oddly difficult to part with. eBay has partnered with Goodwill to lessen separation anxiety and soothe the pains of parting.
This new initiative is called Sell it... |
| 20.02.2013 | Kids’ Clothing Consignment Service thredUP Prepares To Take On Threadflip, Poshmark & More With Move Into Women’s Apparel | Only a month after its expansion into juniors, online and mobile clothing consignment service thredUP is now expanding into women’s apparel. This is the company’s first step out of the kids’ clothes market, representing a shift for the bran... |
| 24.10.2012 | Unlock the goldmine in your closet on Tradesy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
I am a big fan of resold, used, and thrift clothi... |
| 21.08.2012 | Twice Raises $4M From IA, SV Angel And CrunchFund For Its Concierge-Style Secondhand Clothing Marketplace | The secondhand clothing space is heating up: Between Poshmark, 99Dresses and Threadflip, we’ve covered more than a handful of startups that want to hook users up with clothing that other people no longer want to keep. The “one man’s trash i... |
| 26.07.2012 | Female-only VC firm Forerunner Ventures raises $40M fund | Amid sweeping accusations that Silicon Valley venture capital firms have failed to attract female talent, one women-only firm has been quietly raising millions for its first institutionally-backed fund.
If you haven’t heard of Forerunner Ve... |
| 06.06.2012 | Funding daily: Make a tiny, creepy doll in your likeness | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Funding news was buzzing and the cash was flowing... |
| 06.06.2012 | Funding daily: Make a tiny, creepy doll in your likeness | Funding news was buzzing and the cash was flowing today, so we have plenty of big dollar stories for you. If you want funding news throughout the day, check our deals channel feed by clicking the RSS logo above. Pinterest-esque Wanelo gets ... |
| 05.06.2012 | Threadflip Raises $6.5M From Shasta, Chris Sacca And Others, Launches Mobile App | Clothing swap in online form Threadflip (a service which I’m a power user and fan of, fyi) has just closed its $6.5M Series-A round.
The financing was set at around a $20-25 million post-money valuation according to a source. And it was led... |
| 05.06.2012 | Threadflip Closes $6.5M Series A Funding | Threadflip, a San Francisco-based social marketplace for discovering, buying and selling fashion, has closed a $6.5m Series A funding.
The round was led by Shasta Ventures, with participation from Lowercase Capital, and existing investors F... |
| 05.06.2012 | Threadflip Grabs $6.5M Series A |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Leading social marketplace for discovering, buying and selling fashion, today announced the launch of their new mobile app and the close of a $6.5M Series-A round.
>> Click here for more funding data on Threadfli... |
| 05.06.2012 | First Round Capital behind early rounds in ThreadFlip, True&Co and Civitas Learning [VC Roundup] | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| 05.06.2012 | Shasta Ventures leads $6.5M round in Threadflip | Social commerce site Threadflip raises Series A, just two months after a large seed round
Threadflip, the recently-launched fashion e-tailer, announced Tuesday that it's raised $6.5 million in a Series A round of financing, led by Shasta Ve... |
| 17.04.2012 | Threadflip Secures $1.6M in Seed Funding | Threadflip, a Fashion start-up, has secured $1.6m in seed funding.
The round was led by First Round Capital and Baseline Ventures, with additional participation from Dave Morin from Slow Ventures, Forerunner Ventures, Greylock Discovery Fun... |
| 17.04.2012 | Threadflip Gets $1.6M From Baseline, First Round, Dave Morin And Others To Virtualize The Clothing Swap | There has to be something in the air: Just when I thought that I had enough distraction in my life, one more sweet clothing swap site launches, allowing me to focus on my hobby (fashion, and specifically upcycled fashion) while I’m supposed... |
| 17.04.2012 | Threadflip raises $1.6M seed from VC luminaries | Funds will go toward turning women's closets into boutiques
Remember that impulsive item you bought a while back? A perfect party dress; that must-have necklace; boots you couldn't live without. They looked great at the time, and the though... |
