Retrevo
Retrevo is a shopping site focused solely on consumer electronics search, discovery, recommendations and purchase. The site, which is now one of the largest consumer electronics shopping and review sites online, used machine learning and Big Data Analytics on large scale private and public unstructured data to derive product insights on a daily basis so consumers always got the guidance that was comprehensive, current and objective. Their main competitors include [PC World](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pc-world), and [CNET Reviews](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cnet-reviews).
Retrevo
Retrevo is a shopping site focused solely on consumer electronics search, discovery, recommendations and purchase. The site, which is now one of the largest consumer electronics shopping and review sites online, used machine learning and Big Data Analytics on large scale private and public unstructured data to derive product insights on a daily basis so consumers always got the guidance that was comprehensive, current and objective. Their main competitors include [PC World](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pc-world), and [CNET Reviews](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cnet-reviews).
TL;DR
Founded: 2006 (Sunnyvale, CA)
What it does: Consumer-electronics product discovery, review/price aggregation, and shopping guidance
Tech / product: Aggregated reviews, prices and manuals; visual product comparison; used machine learning and big-data analytics
Funding: Raised ~$11.9M total; Series B $8M (Mar 20, 2008) led by Norwest Venture Partners and Alloy Ventures
Exit: Acquired by Shopzilla
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Consumer electronics search, discovery and e-commerce guidance
Founded
2006
Industry
Consumer electronics product discovery / e-commerce
Tech Stack
Funding Track Record
8,000,000 USD
Series B of $8M; brought reported total funding to $11.9M to date.
Investor Signal
“Venture-backed (Norwest Venture Partners, Alloy Ventures)”