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Fancy founder returns with $1,000-per-month luxury shopping startup, Long Story Short

A new luxury goods e-commerce startup dubbed Long Story Short has a provocative concept: it’s $1,000 per month to join for the privilege of shopping its curated collection. Shocking as that soun

Gopuff, the instant delivery upstart, taps ex-Disney head Bob Iger as its newest investor and advisor

Gopuff, the instant delivery giant valued at $15 billion, made a name for itself courting consumers wanting groceries and other essentials with an app that lets them order and get those goods delivere

London’s Jiffy scoops $28M for speedy grocery delivery

Well that was fast. London grocery delivery upstart, Jiffy — which was only founded in April this year — has nabbed $28 million in Series A funding around half a year after initial £2.6 m

Social Commerce Site Fancy Raises Around $20M In Series D Led By Carlos Slim Jr And Japan’s CCC

Some hot news for Fancy, the social shopping platform based out of New York. The company has raised a Series D round of around $20 million, a strategic investment led by Mexico’s Carlos Slim Do

Fancy Debuts Same-Day Delivery In 100 Cities Worldwide

Social commerce platform <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/fancy">Fancy</a>, a startup that was a shoppable Pinterest before Pinterest itself became <a href="https://techcrun

FormaFina, A Fab For The New Rich Of South America, Raises $1.4M

For those who haven't yet heard of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.formafina.com/">FormaFina</a>, think of it as the Fab of South America. The e-commerce startup, which sells curated, limited-run

Personalized Shopping Startup The Hunt Adds Tyra Banks As Investor

The Hunt, a website designed to help shoppers find specific items to buy online, has added Tyra Banks to its list of high-profile backers. This is not the first time Banks has expressed interest in th

Social Commerce Service Fancy Goes International, Now Ships Worldwide

<a target="_blank" href="http://thefancy.com">Fancy</a>, the one-time Pinterest competitor which has <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/29/so-no-apple-acquisition-then-pinterest-rival-fancy-raise

Wantster, Canada’s Answer To Fancy, Picks Up $4M From Radio Station Owners Evanov Communications

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.wantster.com">Wantster</a>, a site founded earlier this year in Canada that lets users collect images of things they want from around the web and pin them on a cent

Following Its $26M In New Funding, Fancy Talks Numbers: 2M+ Users & $200K In Weekly Sales

A quick update on Pinterest rival <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thefancy.com">Fancy's</a> massive $26 million round of funding, uncovered via <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/29/so-no-app

So No Apple Acquisition, Then? Pinterest Rival Fancy Raises $26 Million In New Funding

Pinterest rival Fancy was <a target="_blank" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-wants-to-buy-pinterest-rival-the-fancy-2012-8">rumored</a> to be in acquisition talks with Apple, but that outco

Don’t Just Pin It, Buy It: Pinterest Rival Fancy Figures Out Social Commerce

Amid the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/02/17/pinsanity/">increased speculation</a> surrounding Silicon Valley darling <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/">Pinterest's</a> forthcoming revenue m

Instagram Unveils Realtime API With Foodspotting, Fancy, Momento, Flipboard, About.me And Others

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-278307" title="ins" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/ins.png" alt="" />It really is kind of amazing that <a href="http://instagr.am">Instag

Fancy Is A Social Shopping List For The Design-Obsessed

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/fancy-ps-i-made-this.jpg" class="shot2">We recently <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/11/10/thingd/">wrote</a> about thingd, the ambitious

Viso, the interactive woman

German design agency Bartproject has come up with this very strange art installation that is supposed to demonstrate interaction with animated images. It’s basically a drawing of a woman’s

Flat Panel Frame, Debatable Elegance for those with Cash to Burn

Pottery Barn is selling an item designed to improve the look of one’s flat panel TV. The Chadwick Flat Panel Frame is essentially a picture frame for a flat panel TV. It’s available in thr

Bang & Olufsen BeoLab9 Loudspeakers: Marketed So Fancily, You'd Hardly Know They're Speakers

These crazy looking things are the Bang & Olufsen BeoLab9 loudspeakers. Now, when you go to B&F’s Web site, you’ll notice that the copy reads like the speakers are some sort of Uni