Etsy Acquires Mixel

Etsy, a NYC-based marketplace for artisans and small businesses, has acquired Mixel, an iOS app for creating photo collages.

The amount of the deal was not disclosed.

According to a post apperared on Etsy’s blog (read here), the Mixel team including CEO Khoi Vinh, co-founder Scott Ostler, and colleagues Akiva Leffert and Roy Stanfield, will join Etsy to continue to work on its mobile platform, which was launched in 2012 (iPad and Android).

For additional info, read here Mixel’s faqs on the acquisition.

Conceived by Rob Kalin in early 2005, Etsy currently has offices in Hudson, NY, San Francisco, CA, and Berlin, Germany.

FinSMEs

28/01/2013

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