Rishi Co-Founded FanSnap Acquired By Nextag

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Rishi Co-Founded FanSnap Acquired By Nextag

Fremont: California-based ticket comparison-shopping site FanSnap has been acquired by Nextag, a comparison site for products, travel, and education. Co-Founded in 2007 by Rishi Garg, Micheal Janes, and Mark Towfiq, FanSnap powers ticket comparison-shopping for its search and media partners Microsoft’s Bing, Philly.com, PollSTar, STATS, and Time Warner’s ROadRunner.com.

 

FanSnap offers more than 50 trusted secondary market ticket sites for deals on sports, theater, and concert tickets. Its partners include TicketNow, TicketNetwork, STubHub, RazorGator, Las Vegas Tickets, Gold Coats Tickets, eBay, Barry’s Tickets, AllShows.com, Tickets-for-Charity, Broadway.com, and Ace Ticket. FanSnap combines strategic industry partnership, systems integration, the FanSnap TicketData system, and a patent-pending FanSnap Maps, to provide detailed ticket-level search results.

 

FanSnap has raised a total of $15.7 million in funding till date: $5.2 million from Highland Capital Partners, General Catalyst Partners, and Harrison Metal Capital; $5 million from General Catalyst Partners and Harrison Metal Capital; and $10 million in Series A from General Catalyst Partners.

 

Nextag offers its online shoppers a reliable and expansive browsing experience on everything from toys to travel planes. It uses best-in-class search technology and expertise to ensure the products, prices, and information for their customers. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and has offices in Chicago, London, Tokyo, and Gurgaon, India; and operates in U.S., UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Australia, Japan, and Canada. Previously, Nextag had acquired a German comparison shopping site Guenstige, and a product recommendations site Wize.