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Alice.com Raises $4 Million For Online Shopping Service
Alice.com is a website that focuses on making sure that typical household consumers do not run out of supply. According to an SEC filing, Alice.com raised $4 million in funding. Users fill out what they typically buy on Alice.com and then the website recommends deals to look into and links consumers directly to manufacturers. Alice.com was founded by Mark McGuire and Brian Wiegand.
Wiegand and McGuire previously founded and sold Jellyfish.com to Microsoft. Jellyfish was used by Microsoft to create the Cashback program. This allows people that search for merchandise on Bing.com to find deals. Alice.com previously raised $4.3 million in funding from DaneVest Tech Fund and Kegonsa Capital Partners.
Alice.com Gets $4.3 Million in Funding
Alice.com is a retail platform launched by Brian Wiegand and Mark McGuire. The company announced a $4.3 million funding round led by Kegonsa Capital Partners and DaneVest Tech Fund. In 2007, Brian and Mark sold their company Jellyfish.com to Microsoft. Jellyfish is the backbone of Microsoft’s Live Search cashback program.
“The sale of consumer staples like trash bags, toothpaste and bathroom tissue is a huge untapped eCommerce market that is ripe for innovation” said Brian Wiegand, CEO and Co-Founder of Alice. “We are thrilled to be leveraging the Internet to change the way consumers supply their homes with these consumer staples. I never thought I’d say the words toilet paper and Web 2.0 in the same sentence, but our team is working hard make this kind of combination the next great innovation online.”
The full press release can be viewed here.
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