Polyvore was a community-powered social commerce website headquartered in Mountain View, California.
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12 Facts About Polyvore
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Polyvore was initially funded in three rounds by six investors, including initial investors Benchmark Capital and Harrison Metal, and Matrix Partners and DAG Ventures as lead investors in later rounds.
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Polyvore started as a prototype developed by Pasha Sadri in August 2006.
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Polyvore used Yahoo Pipes, one of the tools he had created, as a basis to build the first iteration of Polyvore.
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Polyvore reached profitability in 2011, largely through the use of affiliate links.
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Polyvore received US$14 million in Series C funding from DAG Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Matrix, and Vivi Nevo in January 2012.
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Shortly afterward, in February 2012, Polyvore partnered with CoverGirl to launch "Polyvore Live", a live-streamed fashion show during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, that showcased the collections of four alumni from the Fashion Institute of Technology, Lauren Bagliore, Vengsarkar “Ven” Budhu, Sergio Guadarrama, and Dana-Maxx Pomerantz.
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That same year, Polyvore was named by Fast Company as number 28 of its 50 Most Innovative Companies of the year.
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Polyvore was envisioned as a product and service by Pasha Sadri in August 2006 while he and his wife were remodeling their house and were looking to create digital mood boards to help with their decorating choices.
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Polyvore was joined by Jianing Hu and Guangwei Yuen, two software engineers he had met while they all worked at Yahoo, and the trio launched of the first version of the website in 2007.
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Polyvore was acquired by SSENSE, a Montreal-based online retailer, and shut down in 2018.
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