About Wishpot
Wishpot is a free social shopping service that makes it easy to save and share interesting
things you find in stores and online.
Items are easily collected online or from stores and organized using simple online lists.
Lists and items can be kept private or shared with others. You can collect and discover products you like,
recommend your favorite stuff, share and explore gift suggestions or ask for opinions and advice.
How does it work?
Items from any online store or website are saved with the click of a browser button. Details including the product name, image, price and where to buy are collected automatically. Personal notes and tags can also be added. You can also search for products and research prices, ratings and reviews on millions of items from thousands of stores right on Wishpot.com with product search powered by Shopping.com. Individual items or entire lists can be kept private, shared with select friends or family or made available to everyone.
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Management Team
Max Ciccotosto - Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer
Wishpot is Max's third startup. Before Wishpot Max founded two companies in Italy; one focused on consumer events and another a technology service provider. An experienced manager of both people and businesses, Max spent seven years at Microsoft before returning to his entrepreneurial roots. In the past three years he worked in mobility where he was granted for four patents and actively engaged in licensing deals with Nokia, SEMC, Palm and Motorola. Max holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from UW.Tom Lianza - Chief Technical Officer
Tom Lianza was the co-founder and lead developer of Wishlisting.com, which was acquired by Wishpot in July of 2008. Previous to Wishlisting, Tom was an engineer at F5 Networks in Seattle for 2 years working on the user interface for the BIG-IP. Before that he was an engineer at Cisco Systems for 5 years, leading a team responsible for the web-based reporting component of Cisco’s call center products. Tom holds a Masters Degree in Information Systems with a specialization in Electronic Commerce from Carnegie Mellon University.History and Investors
Wishpot was founded in 2006 in Seattle by veterans of Microsoft and is backed by angel investors including Adrian Hanauer of Curious Office Partners, an innovative Seattle investment company and incubator. Hanauer was a seed investor in aQuantive (NASDAQ: AQNT) which Microsoft recently agreed to purchase for $6 billion, an early investor in Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) and most recently co-founder of ImageKind.
Wishpot has recently closed a round of financing led by Monster Venture Partners and H-Farm.
Monster Venture Partners
Monster Venture Partners (MVP) is a new breed of early-stage venture capital firm based in Seattle. MVP's investment philosophy is to engage in a genuine hands-on partnership with founders to jointly create value for all stakeholders. For larger opportunities, MVP co-invests with leading investors from around the world, selecting from a universe of like-minded investors who are able to add strategic value. MVP is focused on three primary verticals: marketing technology, consumer healthcare, and global consumer Internet.
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H-Farm was founded in 2005 to create and develop innovative technology and new media start-ups. Since its foundation H-Farm tested many ideas at once and turned the best of them quickly into companies, attracting the human capital necessary to make them grow. H-Farm works in different vertical industries, from mobile and internet companies to 3D animation, IPTV, User Generated Content, Digital Billboard and Interactive Window companies. H-Farm today is recognized in Italy as a unique place to seed finance a start-up. Using design thinking, H-Farm is going to develop a worldwide interconnected network of innovative technology and new media start-ups . Thinking globally, H-Farm is now starting to partner with leading venture capital firms and strategic investors to provide its companies with the resources to maximize their potential.
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