| Website | thefind.com |
| Blog | blog.thefind.com |
| Category | Web |
| 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.com is a shopping search engine that is dedicated to delivering an enjoyable product search experience to smart shoppers. They have developed a shopping search engine that delivers comprehensive lists of products and their corresponding images, ranked by the leading products, brands, stores and styles on the very first page of results.
They recently 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.com.
TheFind.com has over 500,000 stores with over 200 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 six million unique visitors. However, Siva Kumar has said that TheFind.com does buy some of its traffic with ads on Google.
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.
