| Website | zazzle.com |
| Blog | blog.zazzle.com |
| Category | eCommerce |
| Phone | 1-800-980-9890 |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 1/99 |
| Total | $46M |
| Series A, 7/05 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Sherpalo Ventures | $16M |
| Series B, 10/07 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers TransCosmos | $30M |
In 1999 Robert Beaver and his two sons founded Zazzle.com, a service which enables users to create their own products. Zazzle.com users can create virtually anything, from customized t-shirts to postage stamps. Users can also recieve a commission on products that they sell and design themselves. Zazzle is funded primarily by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures, who in 2005 provided $16 million in seres A funding.
Major competitors include Cafepress, and Goodstorm. However, Zazzle’s patented color print technology allows them to manufacture multicolored items, especially t-shirts and other clothing items, for pennies at a time.
| Website | zazzle.com |
| Blog | blog.zazzle.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | 2005 |
| Tags | custom-t-shirts, custom-mugs, custom-posters, zazzle, lifestyle-and-fashion |
Zazzle.com makes it easy and relatively inexpensive to produce a variety of different types of products. Not only do customers have hundreds of products to choose from, but they also have access to many different symbols and designs, including Disney figures and other movie icons that can be put on any item.
In addition to creating customized products for yourself, users can become contributors by sharing their unique creations in the Zazzle galleries. Users can earn up to a 17% commission every time someone purchases one of their designs.
Zazzle’s marketplace already has a lot of products created by users. Click here to see the items that are currently the most popular.
