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Websitethefind.com
Blogblog.thefind.com
CategoryeCommerce
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Founded10/06

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Mountain View, USA
310 Villa Street
Mountain View, CA, 94041
USA

People

Co-founder, CEO
Co-founder, Chief Architect
VP Engg
VP Products

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Acquisitions

iStorez, 9/09
Glimpse, 8/07

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TheFind

Visited by over 17 million people in December 2009, TheFind is quickly becoming shopping’s best destination and leading vertical search engine. Using patented technologies to deliver relevant Product Search, Coupon Search, and Review Search results, TheFind makes smart buying decisions easy across more than 400 million products from 500,000 leading retailers. Also available as an iPhone app (“Shop Nearby” and “Beat This Price” are available in the iTunes store) or via any mobile browser, TheFind is the leading source for comprehensive product information in the US.

TheFind uses patented state-of-the-art search technologies, machine learning algorithms and semantic search applied to the shopping domain to deliver a compelling consumer shopping search experience.

TheFind Inc. is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and backed by leading investors Bain Capital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

TheFind acquired Glimpse.com a high-fashion shopping site with a heavy female demographic. The acquisition will provide TheFind 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.

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 thirteen million unique visitors.

Shopping search competitors include BizRate, Froogle, Yahoo Shopping and mySimon.

Milestones

  • Handshake
    TheFind acquired iStorez. (9/1/09)
    Posted 9/4/09 at 11:21am
  • Check
    TheFind added Ron Levi as VP Products. (8/08)
    Posted 12/20/09 at 12:04pm
  • Handshake
    TheFind acquired Glimpse. (8/1/07)
    Posted 8/29/07 at 8:23am
  • Dollar
    TheFind received $15M in Series C funding. (7/1/07)
    Posted 7/12/07 at 4:21am
  • Check
    TheFind added Zoran Dukic as VP Engg. (1/07)
    Posted 12/20/09 at 12:04pm
  • Dollar
    TheFind received $4M in Series B funding. (10/1/06)
    Posted 7/12/07 at 4:19am
  • Dollar
    TheFind received $7M in Series A funding. (2/1/05)
    Posted 7/12/07 at 4:18am
  • Check
    TheFind added Shashikant Khandelwal as Co-founder, Chief Architect. (5/04)
    Posted 12/20/09 at 12:04pm
  • Check
    TheFind added Siva Kumar as Co-founder, CEO.
    Posted 7/12/07 at 4:28am

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TheFind.com

Websitethefind.com
Blogblog.thefind.com
StageBeta
Launch DateJuly 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.

TheFind screenshot
Above: TheFind Product Search Results
Uploaded: 10/27/09

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  1. TheFind Acquires iStorez.com To Help Consumers Find Deals While Shopping (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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