| Website | thefind.com |
| Blog | blog.thefind.com |
| @thefind | |
| Category | eCommerce |
| talk@thefind.com | |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 10/06 |
| TOTAL | $26M |
| FUNDING 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’s patented search, browse and discovery technology is expanding the eCommerce landscape through social, mobile and tablet commerce innovations. TheFind.com is a search destination where millions of shoppers are finding the best products from every online and local store. Leveraging the company’s unique ability to surface and categorize more than 500 million product offers from 500,000 stores along with their identifying attributes, TheFind is building the only comprehensive map of the merchandise, stores and brands that people “Like”. The result is Glimpse by TheFind, a new way to discover products that is instantly personal and socially curated using Facebook’s OpenGraph and other signals. TheFind Mobile empowers smart phone equipped shoppers with a powerful in-store companion that combines barcode scanning and text search to surface local and online prices and availability for nearly any product imaginable. A pioneer and market leader in the tablet commerce space, TheFind revolutionized catalog shopping with the launch of Catalogue by TheFind, a shopping app for the iPad, Kindle Fire, Android tablets and large screen smart phones, where you can browse more than 170 popular catalog titles. Ranked number 12 on the 2010 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies, TheFind was founded in 2005, venture funded by Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures and is a San Francisco and Silicon Valley-based company.
| 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.
