Snooth

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Snooth Inc
Type Private
Founded New York City, New York
(November 17, 2006)
Headquarters New York City, New York
Industry Internet
Employees 7[citation needed]
Website www.snooth.com

Snooth is a social networking website based in New York City, USA. It was founded in November 2006 by Philip James, a graduate of Oxford University and Columbia Business School. The company raised $300,000 in seed financing in December 2006.

Snooth has built an online community for wine drinkers; registered users can research, review and shop for wine on the site.

As of July 2007, the site had the largest number[citation needed] of wine reviews with over 1.7 million ratings across 300,000 wines. The site has been noted in Decanter (magazine),[1] the New York Daily News,[2] and the New York Post.[3]

In November 2007, the company raised another $1 million from angel investors[4] to expand its operations and merchant relationships. A partnership with Global Wine Stocks in April 2008 [5] greatly expanded its catalog of wines available for purchase in worldwide markets.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Rosen, Maggie; Oliver Styles (August 14, 2007). Wine sites cash in on Facebook phenomenon (html). Decanter Magazine. IPC Media Limited. Retrieved on 2007-11-01.
  2. ^ Cheshes, Jay (21 November 2007), “Turkeys that fly: How to have a mail-order Thanksgiving”, Daily News, <http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/food/2007/11/09/2007-11-09_turkeys_that_fly_how_to_have_a_mailorder.html?print=1&page=all> 
  3. ^ Lieberman, Sara & Stewart, Sara (25 November 2007), “No Bottle Rockets: The City's Hot New Wine-bar Scene is Coming Uncorked!”, New York Post, <http://www.nypost.com/seven/11252007/entertainment/food/no_bottle_rockets_885790.htm?page=0> 
  4. ^ Wine 2.0 Site, Snooth, Raises $1 Million Angel Round, <http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/28/wine-20-site-snooth-raises-1-million-angel-round/> 
  5. ^ Attention Wine Snobs: Snooth.com Goes Global, <http://mashable.com/2008/04/15/snooth-goes-global/> 

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