- Price.com announced recently that it raised $10 million in series seed funding. These are the details.
Price.com — an all-in-one money savings e-commerce platform — announced recently that it raised a $10 million series seed funding round led by Ricky Caplin, Chairman of Caplin Family Offices with participation from: Founders Fund; Social Capital; former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo; Airbnb CTO Vanja Josifovski; former Salesforce Chief Scientist Richard Socher; Pinterest Chief Scientist and Stanford University professor Jure Leskovec, Shoptalk and Money 20/20 founder Jonathan Weiner; former Venmo COO Michael Vaughan; founder of macsales.com Larry O’Connor, angel investor Lacey Edwards and celebrities such as NBA All-Star Baron Davis and influencer Tik Tok stars Josh Richards, Noah Beck, Griffin Johnson, and Bryce Hall.
The demand for Price.com’s AI-powered savings platform has seen dramatic growth this past year with consumers seeking new ways to save money as e-commerce continues to soar to a projected $5 trillion US market by the end of this year. And Price.com is a consumer facing cross-platform tool utilizing proprietary matching technology that sources otherwise inaccessible products to take online shopping to the next level.
Price.com users are able to see real-time options for new, white-label, used, local, refurbished, and rental items along with coupons, cashback, price history, and price alerts. And the app gives consumers real-time access to a growing network of over one billion products and thousands of merchants. And notable recent additions to the Price.com platform include Etsy, Goodwill, Petco, Under Armour, Sephora, and Chewy. The capital infusion enables Price.com to increase investment in user acquisition, further scale operations, enhance its patented product matching technology, and add new functionality, features, and merchants to its B2C core offering.
E-commerce has traditionally been a disjointed patchwork of companies that offer standalone features such as those focused only on coupons, or cashback, or comparison shopping, or pricing trends or alerts. And Price.com aims to be the “one-stop shop,” combining all of these value-added elements, using superior AI tech, to provide the unrivaled best shopping experience with the easiest way to save the most money.
KEY QUOTES:
“Our mission is to empower people with full transparency into all of their shopping options so that they can make convenient, personalized, responsible purchases. We show online shoppers their ever-growing and uniquely relevant range of options to save them time and money.
“The ability to make eco-friendly purchases such as used, local or rental shouldn’t be difficult, yet online shoppers universally encounter problems finding what they’re looking for. We are transforming outdated dynamics to create a one-stop solution for savings. We’re thrilled to have the support of so many knowledgeable and expert investors that share in our vision.”
— RJ Jain, founder and CEO, Price.com
“Price.com is a game changer in e-commerce. The concept is simple and elegant, but what I’ve found most impressive are the deep AI and machine learning capabilities backed by a phenomenal leadership team. I’m confident Price.com will quickly become a household name and help many people save their hard-earned money.”
— Ricky Caplin, Chairman of Caplin Family Offices
