Hukkster
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| Created by | Katie Finnegan and Erica Bell |
| Website | hukkster |
| Alexa rank | 129,324 (January 2013[update]) |
| Launched | May 2012 |
Hukkster was a free shopping tool that tracks products online for users and notifies them via email, text message, and/or push notification when those products go on sale or when a coupon code or promotion is applicable. On Friday, Aug. 1, 2014, an email to users announced it was shutting down.
On April 9, 2015 - Hukkster relaunched with a new proposition, offering instant access to savings and foregoing the previous sales tracking technology.
Numerous media outlets and blogs including The Wall Street Journal,The New York Times,Mashable,Women’s Wear Daily,Forbes,GigaOM,VentureBeat,Inc., and CNET and BuzzFeed have covered Hukkster.
Headquartered in New York City, Hukkster was founded in December 2011 by Katie Finnegan and Erica Bell. Finnegan and Bell met as merchandisers at J.Crew and later worked together in retail consulting at A.T. Kearney. As avid online shoppers with industry experience, Finnegan and Bell built Hukkster with a dual perspective, creating a technology that provides value for both consumers and retailers by revolutionizing the purchase cycle. The company launched in private beta by invitation only in May 2012 before launching publicly in September 2013.
In November, 2012 Hukkster closed $1 MM in seed financing led by Winklevoss Capital, with participation from Chris Fiore, President of Henri Bendel, and Jerome Griffith, CEO of Tumi Inc.
In March 2013, Hukkster launched an app for the iPhone and iPad.
In April 2013, Hukkster announced its partnership with Self magazine, giving users the ability to "hukk" products directly from the magazine's website. That same month, Time Inc. listed Hukkster as one of its 10 NYC Startups to Watch.
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