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Poshmark

Poshmark
About us
Poshmark is a mobile fashion marketplace which dramatically simplifies buying, selling, and shopping for fashion. Core to the Poshmark experience are themed, real-time shopping events called Posh Parties where people gather to shop, share, and sell fashion, right from their phones. Poshmark officially launched the company and it’s first product, an iPhone app, in December 2011 with a tremendous amount of support from the local fashion community in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as from women across the country.
FOUNDED BY: Manish Chandra, Gautam Golwala, Chetan Pungaliya, Tracy Sun
FOUNDED:
2011
OFFICES:
Menlo Park, CA
KEY PERSON:
Manish Chandra, Founder & CEO
Manish has spent the last 20 years in Silicon Valley starting and growing numerous companies in the internet and technology space. Prior to Poshmark, he was the founder & CEO of  Kaboodle, one of the first social shopping sites, which was acquired by Hearst Corporation in 2007. The goal at Kaboodle was to help people discover, recommend and share products with one another. Poshmark was founded with the vision to take this one step further by utilizing technology to transform commerce, specifically, mobile commerce.

Manish received a BTech from IIT K, MS from UT Austin, and an MBA from Haas School of Business.
CLIENTELE:
Poshmark’s customers are women across the country from San Francisco to Chattanooga to New York City. Any woman with an iPhone and a closet can participate in the Poshmark community.
INVESTORS:
Mayfield Fund, Inventus Capital, SoftTechVC, SV Angel
COMPETITORS:
eBay
WEBSITE:
www.poshmark.com
PRODUCT OFFERINGS:
Poshmark is currently available as a free iPhone app and can be downloaded here: bit.ly/poshmark.
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DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS:
Poshmark is using technology to simplify how fashion is bought and sold. The simplicity of the Poshmark user experience is deeply
integrated with a custom marketplace commerce systemand backend infrastructure that allows each user to have a unique and curated shopping experience. Through virtual shopping parties, Poshmark is delivering real time streaming to the mobile phone allowing users to have deeply engaging social and commerce experiences from anywhere. Poshmark is committed to making buying and selling items from your closet simple, easy, and fun.
WHAT NEXT?
Poshmark is focused on streamlining both the online and offline user experience. The company also plans to launch web and Android products in the future. In 2012, Poshmark looks forward to growing its vibrant community by bringing women together from across the country to share their individual style. The company’s goal is to turn every closet in America into a unique shopping experience.
REVENUEMODEL:
Ecommerce, Marketplace.
TIME LINE:
Launched in December, 2011