SoCloz, a Asnières-sur-Seine, France-based pre-shopping platform, has raised its first funding round.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Backers include Alven Capital, FaDièse, and business angels Oleg Tscheltzoff, Geoffrey Bragadir and Cèdric Manguard.
The company intends to use the funding to develop new partnerships and add new functionalities to its platform.
Founded in 2010 by Jérémie Herscovic, SoCloz is a shopping assistant that allows users looking for products to identify the physical stores that have them, providing additional info related to pricing, stock levels, distance to the shop and opening times.
The service, which will soon be available on mobile, has already monitored 755,000 products in 6,200 shops from retailers such as Darty, Conforama, Natura & Scoperte, TheKooples, The Lair di Bacco, etc.
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25/04/2012