Wine Review Site Snooth Raises Cash And A Following - TechCrunch
Fri, Jan 16th, 2009
Raise a glass to Snooth, a social wine review site that is gaining some traction and recently closed another angel round of financing of about $1 million. Angel investors included Joe Meyer, Kevin Fortuna (both from Quigo) and Ted Jansen (former SVP at Expedia), who are now on the company’s advisory board. The New York City-based startup last raised an angel round a year ago for the same amount. Snooth lets you rate, review and talk about wines. On Snooth, anyone can be Robert Parker. And you see what all your friends are reviewing and rating in your own feed. There is also an iPhone-optimized site, and a full-fledged app is in the works.
Read the whole story on TechCrunch or try our Toolbar
Related stories from top sites:
- Can we get an amen? Google Notebook worked: it was simple, effective, web-friendly, and perfectly suited to a Getting Things Done system. So when Google announced that it was going to drop the service, some users were left short-changed...
- Tripwolf, an online travel guide that also offers some social features, has closed a $2.5 million funding round led by European travel publisher MairDumont Group along with investor Dieter von Holtzbrinck...
- During its forth quarter earnings call today, Google revealed that the Android Marketplace, its app store, has 800 applications now available in it. While that’s almost double the less than 500 apps available in early December...
- Evernote Welcomes Google Notebook Rejects With Open Arms
- Tripwolf Raises Another $2.5 Million For Its Online Travel Guide
- Live-Blogging Google’s Earnings Call
- Apple’s App Store: 15,000 apps. Google’s Android Marketplace: 800 apps.
- Qualcomm Hires New Boss For Mobile TV Service No One Watches
- Google Android App Store 5% As Big As iPhone's
- IPhone Game Roundup: Tic A Tac Poker, Puzzle Quest, Oddage
- IDive 300 IPod/iPhone Underwater Case
- iMob Hits The iPhone: Prepare To Become An Addict
- Leaked Investor Email From Tapulous Say Breakeven December, More Funding, New Products
Related stories from Digg:
Snooth for iPhone Announced
Wine lovers need not despair anymore. If you want to find the perfect wine for your taste buds, you can do it using your iPhone. Thanks to this new app by Snooth, users can access their database which houses over 1 million wines and 11,000 merchants from their mobile device.(Gadgets)
mobilewhackcomMon, Jun 1st, 20091 Diggs, 0 CommentsSnooth gets Techcrunched: Wine 2.0 Site, Snooth, Raises $1 Million
A New York City-based startup called Snooth just raised $1 million in angel financing, on top of an earlier $300,000 round. Snooth is a social wine recommendation site that lets you search for more than 300,000 different types of wine. It has 1.9 million reviews, both professional and drinker-generated. Hic.(Software)
pjkjSat, Dec 1st, 20072 Diggs, 0 CommentsSnooth, Recommending some of the best wines around
Snooth is a new wine review and recommendation service that launched early last month. It is all pretty simple and very well designed. Wines are rated on teh site with like or dislike, and Snooth recommend wines which it thinks you will enjoy, kind of like last.fm does for music. Snooth currently has over 1.5 million wines listed and if you cant fi(Tech Industry News)crenkFri, Jul 20th, 20073 Diggs, 0 Comments