What’s up with Lockerz? Heavily-funded startup mum on new fashion site Ador

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Lockerz appears to be unlocking its next chapter. The Seattle social commerce startup is behind a service called Ador, a new online fashion site where shoppers can “get new arrivals & sales alerts from your favorite stores.” A job posting and trademark filing indicates that Lockerz is affiliated with Ador. The job posting, for an iOS… Read More…

Seeking a new combination, social commerce startup Lockerz confirms cutbacks

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Lockerz, the heavily-funded social commerce startup, has reportedly laid off a chunk of its staff and closed down an office in San Diego. TechCrunch reports that about 30 percent of the staff at the headquarters in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood lost their jobs in the restructuring, including chief product officer Michael Walton. We’ve reached out… Read More…

After CEO departs for Yahoo, Lockerz raises more cash

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Seattle startup Lockerz lost its founder and CEO — retail and PR vet Kathy Savitt —  to an executive role at Yahoo in August. But that’s not slowing the company’s enormous appetite for capital. The social shopping service — in which teenagers and twenty-somethings earn points for sharing content or watching videos — has pulled in an additional $7.5… Read More…

Lockerz makes another buy, unlocks deal with Wishpot

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Sometimes you run into stories in the strangest places. On an elevator ride in Pioneer Square this morning, I bumped into Wishpot founder Max Ciccotosto who let me in on a little piece of news. Ciccotosto’s six-year-old social commerce startup, which developed a service to make it easy to share gift lists with friends, has been acquired… Read More…

Kathy Savitt goes to Yahoo, Lockerz names new CEO

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Marissa Mayer continues to put her mark on Yahoo, announcing today that Seattle public relations veteran and entrepreneur Kathy Savitt has joined the company as chief marketing officer. Savitt previously served as CEO of Lockerz, a heavily-funded social commerce startup backed by the likes of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and others. “We are very… Read More…

Tech Moves: Pearl Jam Web developer joins Seattle’s Yabbly; Rosenthal leaves Madrona; etc.

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Ian Shafer has joined Yabbly, a new social decision making app created by former Marchex exec and Google product manager Tom Leung.  A 2001 graduate of the University of Washington’s computer science and engineering department, Shafer worked at Amazon.com as a software engineer before moving on to lead Web development for Pearl Jam’s online storefront. He… Read More…

Lockerz buys online fashion site Chick Approved

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Lockerz continues to bolster its ranks through acquisitions, with the fast-growing Seattle social shopping company announcing that it has acquired online fashion community Chick Approved. Chick Approved — founded by Jeff Turnbull, Brett Miller and David Dripps – allows its users to get feedback on fashion choices. As part of the deal, Lockerz will continue to… Read More…

Newsmakers 2011: Lockerz CEO Kathy Savitt

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Some of the biggest names in venture capital are putting their faith in Lockerz, a Seattle upstart that came on the scene in a big way in 2011. The company, which is building a social networking service where teenagers and twenty somethings earn points for sharing content or watching videos, landed a massive $36 million… Read More…

Zulily, Redfin named to list of the 100 most valuable startups

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Fast-growing Seattle startups Zulily and Redfin have been named to Alley Insider’s Digital 100 ranking of the most valuable startups in the world. Zulily debuted on the list at #28, with the daily deal site boasting an estimated value of $700 million. (GeekWire reported last month that Zulily’s latest $43 million financing round came with… Read More…

Lockerz makes another buy, gobbles up video service Vodpod

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Heavily-funded social networking startup Lockerz, which just scored $36 million in venture capital financing, is using some of that cash to expand its online video offerings. Today, the Seattle company announced it is buying Vodpod.com an other assets from Remixation. The acquisition will allow users of Lockerz to create personalized video channels featuring content from… Read More…