Vivino is an online wine community, database and mobile application where users can buy, rate and review wines. Vivino was founded in 2010 by Heini Zachariassen and Theis Sondergaard. As of 2018, Vivino had a wine database containing over 9 million different wines, and had 30 million users. In July 2013, the database had 1 million wines. Vivino's headquarters are in Copenhagen, Denmark, but the company also has offices in The U. S., Ireland; Ukraine and India.
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History
Vivino was founded in Copenhagen (Denmark) by Heini Zachariassen and Theis Sondergaard. The company launched an iPhone app in July 2011. They knew very little about wine, and used that ignorance in the development of an app for ordinary people. 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, manually processed by 50 Indian contractors. In July 2013 Vivino raised $10.3M in capital from Balderton Capital and Creandum. In January 2016 the company raised a Series B round of venture funding from SCP Neptune (the family office of Christophe Navarre, the global CEO of Moet Hennessy) for an additional $25M. And in February 2018, Vivino raised a Series C round of $20 million led by SCP Neptune International, with participation from Balderton Capital, Creandum, SEED Capital Denmark and Iconical. Long term profitability hinges on in-app purchasing and email campaigns, as only 5% of wine purchases are made online. In March 2018, Vivino appointed Former StubHub President Chris Tsakalakis Chief Executive Officer.
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Awards and nominations
- Nominated for the 2012 Danish App Awards.
- Won 2012 Danish Growth Award (Award won by Heini Zachariassen for Vivino).
- Nominated for 2013 Danish Startup Awards. (Category: Best Design)
- Nominated for 2013 Mobile Excellence Awards. (Category: Best Original Content for Mobile)
- Won Real Innovation Awards 2017: The Best Beats First winner
References
External links
- Official website
Source of article : Wikipedia
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