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Acquired byJamplant
Date11/08
Acquired byYahoo!
Price€475M
Date3/04
TermsCash

General Information

Websitekelkoo.com
CategoryeCommerce
Email
Employees
Founded1999
DescriptionPrice Comparison Service

Offices

London Office
6th Floor Portland House
London, SW1E 5BH, USA

People

Co-Founder
Co-founder

Former People

Managing Director Germany
VP Product
Co-Founder and Chief Architect
Co-Founder and Head of SEO

Funding

Series A, 1/99
Innovacom
Banexi Ventures
$3M

Competitors

Tags

ecommerce, pricecomparison, yahoo

Kelkoo

Founded in November 1999, and followed in 2000 by mergers with eCommerce related sites Zoomit, Dondecomprar and Shopgenie, Kelkoo is a price comparison site operating in 10 European countries. Kelkoo was bought by Yahoo! in 2004 for $670 million. In 2007, Yahoo! began to hint at a possible sale, and in 2008 Jamplant, a UK-based private equity firm, purchased Kelkoo for an undisclosed sum.

The company provides comparisons on over 2 million products including those by technology brands such as Apple and Sony as well as non-tech brands such as Black & Decker and Aston Martin. Kelkoo launched a beta version of its service in the US in June 2010.

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Kelkoo

Websitekelkoo.com
StageLive
Tags ecommerce

Kelkoo operates in the US and in 10 European countries:

  • Denmark
  • Sweden
  • Belgium (FR)
  • Belgium (NL)
  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Spain
  • United Kingdom
Kelkoo screenshot
Above: Kelkoo Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

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Kelkoo

Sources

  1. UK-based Jamplant buys Yahoo Kelkoo unit (privateequityonline.com) [edit]
  2. freebase.com [edit]
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