articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . june 2010 imshopping inc. 1 industry software and technology services founded california april 2009 headquarters santa clara california key people prashant nedungadi co founder and ceo sasha ovsankin vp engineering mary piontkowski vp of products and user experience website http www.imshopping.com imshopping 2 was launched in april 2009 . imshopping is a human assisted shopping site . headquartered in santa clara california united states imshopping service is the digital equivalent of talking to a knowledgeable salesperson at a store . the site enables online shoppers to get answers to questions with reference to products and services . contents 1 about the company 1.1 founding 1.2 investors 2 functioning and methodology 3 additional features 4 market competition 5 external links 6 references about the company edit founding edit prashant nedungadi is the ceo and founder of imshopping he had previously co founded andale the largest third party tool provider on ebay . nedungadi later merged andale with vendio a small business e commerce cvompany . investors edit imshopping s primary investor is sk telecom a south korean mobile telecommunications operator . the company announced that it had closed a 4.7 million 3 series a round of funding from sk telecom . functioning and methodology edit shoppers register with the imshopping site to ask questions with regards to the products or services they are looking for . once the question is keyed it is routed to human shopping guides who offer their suggestions reviews from third party sites blog buzz and pricing with links to product options that fit the requirements of the user . shoppers can use these responses to instantly make purchases or save to their own folders before making a product decision . additional features edit the site allows online shoppers to ask questions using social networking 4 websites like facebook and twitter . the responses to the shoppers by the human shopping guides are archived anonymously by the website for the reference of future shoppers . the site is user interactive and it allows the user to answer the questions posted by others . market competition edit yahoo answers answerbag askville wiki answers external links edit sk telecom 1 imshopping homepage 2 references edit imshopping inc. . business week . retrieved 26 june 2009 . ricketts camille . imshopping provides online personal shoppers at your service . the industry standard . retrieved 4 april 2009 . pearce quintana james 29 april 2009 . moconews twitter based shopping service launches raises 4.7 million in funding . the washington post . retrieved 29 april 2009 . 6 ways to shop with social media . newser . retrieved 16 may 2009 . this article about a search engine website is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title imshopping & oldid 730991660 categories online retailers of the united statessearch engine website stubshidden categories orphaned articles from june 2010all orphaned articlesall stub articles 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 22 july 2016 at 05 40 . 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