clothing and home d cor . the company was started by harvard business school graduate and former goldman sachs investment banker olga vidisheva . 1 it was founded to give small local boutiques an online presence by providing them access to customers worldwide as well as services such as photography shipping assistance and digital marketing . 2 as of 2015 shoptiques ships internationally to five countries . 3 contents 1 history 2 business model 3 press 4 references history edit vidisheva spent her second year of harvard business school surveying over 800 boutiques to help her write the business plan for shoptiques . 4 after graduation she was accepted as a single non technical founder to y combinator 5 and launched the site in spring of 2012 with 25 boutiques on the site . 6 shoptiques has raised over 2 million in funding from greylock partners andreessen horowitz sv angel benchmark and y combinator . 7 in november 2014 shoptiques added its 1 000th boutique to the site . 8 in march 2015 the company released its mobile app . 9 business model edit shoptiques generates revenue based on commission taking a percentage of each sale made on the site . 10 each boutique curates its own selection of products on the site and customers can purchase products from multiple boutiques with a single checkout experience . 11 in 2014 shoptiques recorded total revenue of 3 million . 12 press edit shoptiques has received media attention from fashion publications including vogue magazine elle and women s wear daily . 13 shoptiques was named to forbes 2015 list of america s most promising companies . 14 vidisheva was named to forbes list of 30 under 30 retail . 15 vidisheva was also named to inc. magazine s list of 30 under 30 . 16 references edit eric markowitz march 12 2012 fashion start up takes aim at 20 billion dollar industry inc. magazine teresa novellino july 27 2012 a big dream for small boutiques bizjournals jessica binns january 05 2015 small brands go big with e commerce apparel catherine sabino september 16 2013 olga vidisheva debuts shoptiques.com gotham magazine tomio geron march 28 2012 y combinator demo day which will be the next dropbox forbes magazine leena rao march 21 2012 andreessen horowitz greylock back marketplace for local fashion boutiques shoptiques techcrunch https www.crunchbase.com organization shoptiques funding rounds techcrunch crunchbase ben fischer november 12 2014 shoptiques the online store for boutiques finds a cheaper path to internet sales success bizjournals britteny dee march 18 2015 shoptiques launches mobile app founder olga vidisheva has sights set on expansion fashion times kim mai cutler march 30 2012 here are the women of y combinator and they are awesome techcrunch joanne klimovich harrop april 27 2015 pittsburgh store owners say shoptiques.com creates online word of mouth pittsburgh tribune review karsten strauss january 30 2015 world fashion on a single site shoptiques in 2015 forbes magazine press shoptiques . shoptiques.com . america s most promising companies . forbes . claire o connor january 5 2015 30 under 30 meet the young people reinventing retail and e commerce forbes magazine donna fenn april 22 2015 shoptiques an online home for small boutiques inc. magazine retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title shoptiques & oldid 689279077 categories online companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 november 2015 at 02 16 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view