| Website | thefind.com |
| Blog | blog.thefind.com |
| Category | eCommerce |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 10/06 |
| 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 Ventures | $15M |
TheFind is the world’s largest shopping center where more than 500,000 ecommerce sites and local stores can be found selling over 400 million products. Opened to shoppers in 2007 and profitable since late 2008, TheFind is growing quickly and already hosts more than 17 million monthly visitors.
TheFind, headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., has received multiple patents for its innovative shopping aggregation and search technology that combines an unsurpassed array of stores, products, coupons, reviews and other information relevant to all shoppers. Investors include Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures.
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.
Shopping search competitors include BizRate, Google Product Search, 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.
