| Website | thefind.com |
| Blog | blog.thefind.com |
| Category | eCommerce |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 10/06 |
| Glimpse, 8/07 |
| Total | $26M |
| Series A, 2/05 Cambrian Ventures Lightspeed Venture Partners Redpoint Ventures | $7M |
| Series B, 10/06 Cambrian Ventures Lightspeed Venture Partners Redpoint Ventures | $4M |
| Series C, 7/07 Lightspeed Venture Partners Redpoint Ventures Bain Capital | $15M |
TheFind is a vertical search engine whose mission is to help every shopper find exactly what they want to buy, and to help every merchant, large and small, reach those shoppers.
Consumers can shop it all with TheFind– every product from every store, along with comprehensive sale, coupon and discount information– to find the lowest price, the best deal, the perfect gift or that hard-to-find item. TheFind delivers everything that online shopping, local shopping, and green shopping have to offer, with over 320 million products from more than 500,000 stores and online merchants, universally accessible through TheFind.com, TheFind Mobile, and TheFind iPhone App. TheFind Inc., is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and backed by leading investors Bain Capital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
They acquired Glimpse.com a high-fashion shopping site with a heavy female demographic. The acquisition will provide TheFind.com with a larger female audience and more high-fashion products in their search results. Glimpse.com will stay as a standalone site but will have its shopping search engine powered by TheFind.
TheFind.com has over 500,000 stores with over 320 million products. The site uses a crawler to comb popular e-commerce sites and also to find unique brands in hard to find spots.
An interesting thing about TheFind.com is that they don’t ask merchants to pay for their products to show up in TheFind.com’s results. This strategy has seemed to serve them well as they have over eleven million unique visitors.
Shopping search competitors include BizRate, Froogle, Yahoo Shopping and mySimon.
| Website | thefind.com |
| Blog | blog.thefind.com |
| Stage | Beta |
| Launch Date | July 12, 2007 |
| Tags | search |
When you go to their main search page your greeted with a sparse, Google-like look. It gives you a feeling that they’re confident in their search powers. Once you type in a specific product or product category, let’s use “running shoes”, you’re brought to a much denser, interactive page. On this page, you’ll find all the typical features to help you narrow your search: categories, departments and price controls. The distinguishing feature of this interactive page is the MyFinds bar at the bottom of the interactive search page. Here you can collect products you like or want to compare against future searches. It’s a great feature that should be replicated on other shopping search engines.
