Shopular

Shopular
Private
Industry Shopping, Retail, E-commerce
Founded 2012
Founders Navneet Loiwal, Tommy Tsai
Parent Ebates
Website www.shopular.com

Shopular is a mobile shopping app that sends notifications on offers, deals and sales from retailers to its users.[1] The company was founded in 2012 by Navneet Loiwal and Tommy Tsai who had worked at Shopkick previously.[2][3] The company has received over $13.6 million in investments.[4] In March 2016, the app was acquired by Ebates.[5]

Features

Users of the app receive location based notifications on the latest top offers from retailers and stores.[6] The app allows users to filter deals by locations, stores, product categories amongst others.[7][1] The app uses geo-locating to push relevant deals to customers as they walk into stores.[8][9]

Funding rounds

In January 2012, they raised a seed of from Y Combinatory and other investors including Adam D'Angelo the founder of Quora.[10][11] They received a Series A (lead) funding of $6.4 million from Sequoia Capital in September 2013.[12] In February 2016, they had another investment of $7.2 million from Venture.[13][4]

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 Freeman, Lisa Lee. "10 No-Brainer Ways to Save Even More at Target". Time (magazine). Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "Shopular, Inc.: CEO and Executives". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  3. ↑ Ghosh, Aparna (9 July 2014). "Entrepreneurial success for Indians abroad". Mint (newspaper). Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Term Sheet". Fortune (magazine). 25 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "Ebates Buys Shopular for Mobile Product Discovery". The Wall Street Journal. 24 March 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  6. ↑ "Shopular's New App Alerts You To Nearby Deals, No Coupon Clipping Required". TechCrunch. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  7. ↑ Fiegerman, Seth. "Shopular Wants to Make Retailers Less Afraid of Mobile". Mashable. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  8. ↑ "10 Shopping Apps for Finding Great Deals". Paste (magazine). Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  9. ↑ "Shopular Alerts You to the Best Deals When You Enter a Mall". 7x7 (magazine). 25 December 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  10. ↑ "Ebates buys mobile shopping app Shopular - Silicon Valley Business Journal". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  11. ↑ "Mobile Deal-Finding App Shopular (YC W12) Raises $6.4 Million Series A From Sequoia". Y Combinator (company). Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  12. ↑ Perez, Sarah. "Mobile Deal-Finding App Shopular Raises $6.4 Million Series A From Sequoia". TechCrunch. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  13. ↑ "Shopular raises $6.4M to make coupons cool again". VentureBeat. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  14. ↑ Aamoth, Doug. "50 Best iPhone Apps, 2013 Edition". Time. Time (magazine). Retrieved 30 October 2016.
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