User:Scottwrites/Keep.com
| Type of business | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2010 |
| Headquarters | , USA |
| Founder(s) | Scott Kurnit |
| URL | www.keep.com |
| Current status | Active |
Keep.com is an online social bookmarking platform that allows consumers to keep online products for future use.[1][2]
Features[edit]
Keep.com offers the means to select items from various web sites and choose to maintain them in a personal area on the site. Items kept on the service are meant to be products available for purchase. And the Keep.com selecton tools work only on retail web sites. Users may follow other users or click on their own or others kept product to navigate to the retail web site from which the product was originally kept. Some third party services or content providers may use Keep.com to maintain their own custom areas for promotion.[3]
History[edit]
The parent company of Keep.com, Keep Holdings was oringally founded as AdKeeper in March, 2010,[4] by Scott Kurnit, who serves as Chairman and CEO. Kurnit is best known as the founder of About.com, which grew to a public market value of $1.7 billion, and was sold to Primedia for $724 million, in 2001. About is now owned by IAC. Keep Holdings has added products such as TheSwizzle.com and Keep.com. The company was ranked by The Wall Street Journal among the Top 50 Start-ups in 2012.[5]
Finances and governance[edit]
Keep.com is a division of Keep Holdings, which also produces TheSwizzle.com. In March, 2010, the company raised $8 million in funding from DCM, True Ventures, Spark Capital, First Round Capital,[6] Betaworks, The New York Times, Lerer Ventures and several individual investors. In December, 2010, the company raised $35 million from Oak Investment Partners,[7] DCM, and other previous investors.[8][9] The Board of Directors consists of Scott Kurnit, Fred Harman (Managing Partner of Oak Investment Partners), Dixon Doll (Co-Founder and General Partner, DCM), Jon Callaghan (Founder, True Ventures) and Ron Unterman (scientist and former Managing Director, Slater Technology Fund).
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Staff (May 29, 2012). "The State Of AdKeeper: Adding Pinterest, Commerce Says CEO Kurnit And Prez Bekkedahl". Ad Exchanger. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
- ^ Staff (June 26, 2012). "AdKeeper's Kurnit on Media, Advertising, Outlook". Bloomberg. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
- ^ Staff (November 8, 2013). "Shop InStyle's December Gift Guide With Keep.com". InStyle. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
- ^ Staff. "AdKeeper, Inc. Snapshot". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved January 17, 2010.
- ^ Zoran Basich and Emily Maltby (Sept. 27, 2012). "Looking for the 'Next Big Thing'? Ranking the Top 50 Start-Ups". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Kira Bindrim (January 23, 2011). "Venture capital firms invest still more dollars in NYC". Crain's New York Business. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
- ^ Staff, (January 3, 2011). "AdKeeper Inc. Secures $35 Million in Series B Funding Led by Oak Investment Partners". iStockAnalyst. Retrieved January 22, 2011.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ Peter Kafka (January 2, 2011). "Do You Want To Save Your Web Ads? AdKeeper Bets $35 Million That You Will'". MediaMemo. Retrieved July 18, 2010.
- ^ John Capone, (January 3, 2011). "AdKeeper Secures $35M, Readies Public Launch". MediaPost News Online Media Daily. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
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External links[edit]
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