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 and was responsible for four patents. He was also actively engaged in deals with Nokia, SEMC, Palm and Motorola. Max holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from UW.Alexis Campailla - Co-Founder, Chief Technical Officer
Alexis is a deeply experienced and innovative technologist who spent the last eight years at Microsoft, where he was responsible for three patents. He was a developer in the highly regarded .NET Framework team and later in the Microsoft Exchange group, where he worked on advanced feature prototyping for future releases. Alexis holds a MS in Software Engineering from the University of Rome.Board of Directors
Max Ciccotosto - Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer
Alexis Campailla - Co-Founder, Chief Technical Officer
Rob Monster - Managing Director, Monster Venture Partners
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 Partner
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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