| Website | mpire.com |
| Blog | blogs.mpire.com |
| Category | Web |
| Phone | (206) 706-5588 |
| info@mpire.com | |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Total | $19.8M |
| Series A, 2/07 Ignition Partners | $9.8M |
| Series B, 6/08 Draper Fisher Jurvetson Ignition Partners | $10M |
Mpire offers a shopping comparison service. It compares prices on items for sale at a list of online retailers and tracks eBay auction prices for items over time. Mpire scours hundreds of stores and marketplaces to offer a broad selection of both new and used items, brings together thousands of coupons from thousands of stores for savings, and packages up historical data trends enabling users to see how much they should pay for the items they want.
| Website | widgetbucks.com |
| Blog | widgetbucks.blogspot.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | October 2, 2007 |
WidgetBucks features pay-per-click shopping widgets that help sites make money. It allows sites to customize what kinds of consumer items they want to appear in the widget (books, movies, computers, musical instruments). The widgets tap into merchandise from 30,000 retailers, including Amazon, Shopping.com, Target, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, and the Gap. WidgetBucks shares the cost-per-click revenue with bloggers.
