type private headquarters copenhagen denmark founder s heini zachariassen founder & theis sondergaard co founder slogan s never forget another wine website www.vivino.com launched july 2009 vivino is an online wine community database and mobile application where users can buy rate and review wines . vivino was founded in july 2009 by heini zachariassen and theis sondergaard . as of 2014 update vivino has a wine database containing over 3 million different wines and has 6.8 million users . 1 in july 2013 the database had 1 million wines . 2 vivino s headquarters are based in copenhagen denmark but the company also has offices in the usa ukraine and india . 3 contents 1 history 2 awards and nominations 3 references 4 external links history edit vivino was founded in copenhagen denmark by heini zachariassen and theis sondergaard . the company launched their iphone app in july 2011 . they knew very little about wine and used that ignorance in the development of an app for ordinary people . 1 the app was poor at first disappointing users with its small database . the developers photographed 5 000 wines but the breakthrough came when they offered a corkscrew to whoever could upload the most wines gaining 50 000 pictures . in late 2014 the database receives 250 000 photos per day although not all are of new wines . the software recognizes 25 000 photos per day which are manually handled by 50 indians sphinx solution pvt ltd. 1 in july 2013 vivino raised 10.3 million usd in capital bringing their net capital to 12.4 million usd . 4 in january 2016 a series b round of venture funding raised another us 25 million . 5 long term profitability hinges on in app purchasing and email campaigns as only 5 % of wine purchases are made online . 1 awards and nominations edit nominated for the 2012 danish app awards . 6 won 2012 danish growth award award won by heini zachariassen for vivino . 7 nominated for 2013 danish startup awards . category best design nominated for 2013 mobile excellence awards . category best original content for mobile 8 references edit a b c d iv rks ttere bag appen vivino vi ved ikke en skid om vin in english ingeni ren 1 december 2014 . accessed 3 december 2014 . just like good wine vivino wine gets better with time . appadvice . july 24 2013 . archived from the original on december 15 2013 . say hello to the new wine app for normal people . forbes . august 13 2012 . archived from the original on october 28 2013 . vivino uncorks 10.3 m usd to turn anyone into a wine snob . venturebeat . july 17 2013 . archived from the original on may 1 2014 . online wine community vivino has raised 25 million in funding . business insider . retrieved 23 january 2016 . danish app awards 2012 . bureaubiz . october 11 2012 . archived from the original on october 29 2013 . danish growth awards 2012 . bureaubiz . november 16 2012 . archived from the original on october 29 2013 . mobile excellence awards 2013 . mobilexawards . october 23 2013 . archived from the original on november 1 2013 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vivino & oldid 739452512 categories android operating system softwarecommunity websitescompanies based in copenhagenios softwareonline retailerswine websiteshidden categories use mdy dates from june 2014articles containing potentially dated statements from 2014all articles containing potentially dated statements 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 f royskt edit links this page was last modified on 14 september 2016 at 19 34 . 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