Become.com
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| Become, Inc. | |
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California, USA |
| Key people | Michael Yang, founder and CEO; Yeogirl Yun, founder and CTO |
| Industry | Shopping Search, Discovery Shopping |
| Website | www.become.com |
Become.com is a product price comparison service and discovery shopping search engine with a mission to help shoppers make ideal buying decisions. Become.com targets popular products such as electronics, home, garden, computers, cameras, clothing, health, beauty and more.[1]
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[edit] History
Become, Inc., was founded in 2004 by entrepreneurs Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun who also founded mySimon.[2] By Early February, 2005, the original founders added Jon Glick, past Senior Manager of Search at Yahoo and the guy who aided AltaVista, AllTheWeb, and the Inktomi database into Yahoo to their team.[3] Two other executives, Greg Haslam of NexTag, and Tony Pecora of eBay, were also brought on board at Become.com.[4]
Become.com is a privately-held company in Mountain View, California who received an undisclosed amount of funding during their series A round and an additional $7.2 million in the second round of funding, led by Transcosmos venture capital group, while angel investors Rob Conway and Bob Bozeman were also named.[5] On March 14, 2008 Become.com raised $17.5MM in additional funding from TPG Growth Fund.
[edit] Industry Recognition & Awards
Become.com was voted the Best of the Web by Forbes Magazine and Business Week during 2005 [6] and 2006. In addition, Become.com has been mentioned several times on authoritative industry news or press sites including SearchEngineWatch, Forbes, MarketWatch and more. Many of their founders and executives have conducted interviews or QandA's with industry professionals including Marketing Shift[7], Organized Shopping[8], ClickZ[9] [10], InternetNews[11] and eCommerceOptimization.com.[12]
[edit] See also
- Dulance - search engine
- List of search engines
- Online shop
- Price comparison service
- Search engines
- Vertical search
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ Become.com Launches Shopping Search Engine.. SearchEngineWatch (2005-04-11).
- ^ MySimon Founders Launch New Engine.. MarketWatch (2005-02-23).
- ^ Glick Clicks Over to Become.. StepForth (2005-04-01).
- ^ Former eBay exec to head up marketing at Become.com.. InternetRetailer (2006-04-03).
- ^ Become.com Gets More Funding.. SearchEngineWatch (2005-05-31).
- ^ Forbes.com Best of the Web.. Forbes.com (2005-12-01).
- ^ Q & A With Become CTO Yeogirl Yun.. Marketing Shift (2005-03-21).
- ^ Email Q&A With Michael Yang of Become.com.. Organized Shopping (2005-03-28).
- ^ Q and A With New Shopping Search Engine Become.com, Part 1.. ClickZ (2005-08-01).
- ^ Q and A With New Shopping Search Engine Become.com, Part 2.. ClickZ (2005-08-15).
- ^ Michael Yang, CEO, Founder, Become.com.. InternetNews (2006-10-13).
- ^ Interview: Jon Glick Talks About Become.com.. eCommerceOptimization (2007-11-05).
