Grabble Closes £1.2M Seed Funding Round

grabbleGrabble, a London, UK-based fashion app, closed £1.2m seed funding round.

Backers included:
Alex Hoye, Chairman of Skimlinks, Founder of Faction
Darren Childs, CEO of UKTV, Ex MD of BBC Worldwide
Marc Boyan, Founder and CEO of Miroma Ventures
Guy Hipwell, Head of E Commerce at C&A
Alex Tait, Ex Head of E Commerce at Arcadia Group
Nishul Saperia, Founding Team of London startup Markit
Pablo Barclay, CEO and founder of Rubbersole.co.uk
Maiden Lane – an angel fund in Silicon Valley
Chris Conn, CTO Fusepump and
Rob Durkin, CEO Fusepump.

The company intends to use the funds for international expansion in 2015, launch in the USA in the next few months and Asia, and improvement of the checkout experience for users within the app.

Co-founded by CMO Daniel Murray and CEO Joel Freeman, Grabble is an online fashion platform that allows users to save products, wherever they’ve found them online, to make a fashion wishlist. The company has built a technology infrastructure based on “scraping” which enables retailers to add products straight off their site, onto Grabble, and turn them into mobile content with no integration involved.

FinSMEs

20/02/2015

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