Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b0211857-d18a-4e27-9063-c7f978159d75&Preview=1
Date 7/15/2010
Company Name Shopkick
Mailing Address Undisclosed Palo Alto, CA 94301
Company Description shopkick is a new Palo Alto-based startup funded by Kleiner Perkins’s iFund, Greylock Partners and Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, and investor in Facebook and Zynga. shopkick, Inc. brings the power of the mobile internet to the retail experience. shopkick launched its mobile application CauseWorld in the United States in December 2009, in partnership with Citi, Kraft Foods and Procter & Gamble.
Proceeds Purposes shopkick will use the funding to further enhance its location-based shopping capabilities and accelerate partnership development – just in time for the release of its prime mobile retail app, shopkick, due for release this summer.