Kahuna creates highly personalized experiences for every buyer and every seller for the world’s leading marketplaces. Kahuna is the platform of choice for meeting the needs of marketplaces, using state of the art machine-learning technology to drive personalization, product and pricing optimization, trust, and engagement. With more than 144 million engaged users, over 4 billion messages sent, and 46 billion optimized events, Kahuna is the proven solution for marketplaces of all sizes.
Amazon Targets Unprofitable Items, With a Sharper Focus on the Bottom Line - This is a pretty big move. One of the advantages that Amazon’s marketplace has enjoyed is Prime shipping. https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-targets-unprofitable-items-with-a-sharper-focus-on-the-bottom-line-11544965201
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Vroom nabs $146M from AutoNation, VCs for its used car site https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/11/vroom-nabs-146m-from-autonation-vcs-for-its-online-used-car-marketplace/
Kahuna Inc. was a software startup that made mobile marketing automation software for companies. It provided tools and services for mobile applications to market their apps through mobile messaging channels, including push notifications, in-app messages, and email.[1] The company was headquartered in Redwood City, California.
Kahuna was founded in 2012 by Adam Marchick and Jacob Taylor, founding CTO of SugarCRM. The company received $2 million in seed funding in October 2013 from SoftTech VC, , Chamath Palihapitiya, Tim Kendall, Lee Linden, Raj De Datta, Omar Siddiqui, David Vivero, among others.[2][3] In February 2014, Kahuna received $11 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital and SoftTech VC.[4][5][6] In August 2015, Kahuna raised $45 million in a Series B round of funding, led by Tenaya Capital.[7]
In early 2019, the company closed down all operations, and its main website was inaccessible as of May 2019[8]
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