Reblogged from TechCrunch: It may seem counter-intuitive for an apparel and accessories company to encourage women to buy fewer things, but that’s exactly what a new startup called Cuyana is doing. Cuyana, a San Francisco startup that makes responsibly sourced, high-end apparel and accessories sold only online, is announcing today that it’s closed on $1.7 […]
Reblogged from VentureBeat: MOSCOW — Russian fashion site Suit Up has only been online for about five months, but it already has impressive traction with major worldwide clothing brands. Suit Up showed off its wares yesterday at DEMO Europe among other young companies that show a lot of promise. The site describes itself as “the […]
Reblogged from TechCrunch: Last fall, fashion commerce startup Monogram launched an iPad app that was aiming to be kind of like a mobile, shoppable magazine for those hip to fashion. It had all the makings of a great mobile commerce app: It looked good, it was easy to use, and it allowed viewers to buy […]
Reblogged from PandoDaily: Naval Ravikant, co-founder of AngelList, Epinions and Vast, gets asked to join dozens of startup boards each year. He declines each request, even though doing so makes him feel bad. At our PandoMonthly in December, he said he wished his “mediocre superpower” was the ability to say no without guilt. With its […]
Reblogged from PandoDaily: Watch out ThreadFlip, Poshmark, and Tradesy there’s a new kid on the women’s clothing consignment block and she’s no wallflower. While ThredUp may be new to the women’s category, the company has already moved hundreds of thousands of gently used children’s clothing items from buyer to seller. ThredUp lists more than 150,000 […]
Reblogged from TechCrunch: Zalora, a Singaporean fashion and beauty e-tailer backed by Rocket Internet, has scooped up €20 million (about $26 million USD) from German retail conglomerate Tengelmann Group, just six months after it landed an undisclosed sum from JP Morgan. In addition, Zalora told us it has also started building a regional software development […]
Reblogged from PandoDaily: When I asked last summer which companies were poised to take advantage of the coming B2B e-commerce boom, Joor was one of the first ones mentioned. The site, founded in 2010 by Mona Bijoor, connects more than 500 designers like Thakoon and Rag & Bone to more than 30,000 buyers like Neiman […]
Reblogged from TechCrunch: Fitiquette, a developer of virtual fitting room technology and a TC Disrupt finalist from September 2012, has been acquired by Myntra, one of the big fashion and lifestyle e-commerce companies in India. Myntra plans to put San-Francisco-based Fitiquette, led by CEO/co-founder Andy Pandharikar, at the center of a new innovation lab in […]
