Inporia

Inporia, founded in 2011 by Max Skibinsky and Ryan Junee, operated in the e-commerce sector, leveraging machine learning and social data. The San Francisco-based company is now considered deadpooled. Junee brought experience as a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded Omnisio which was acquired by Google in 2008. Skibinsky also founded two other companies, Vault12 and Hive7.

The company secured $1.25 million in a single seed funding round on May 11, 2011. This round attracted seven investors, including prominent names like New Enterprise Associates, SV Angel, Clearstone Venture Partners, and 500 Global. The company was part of the Winter 2011 batch of the Y Combinator accelerator program.

Inporia's primary product was Kaleidoscope, an e-commerce application and widget focused on inspiration. It launched on Android in February 2011, followed by an iPhone release in April of the same year. The application was the first in an anticipated series of e-commerce driven apps from the company. The business model centered on providing a fashion shopping email list.

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