Bloom

  • Social beauty store Bloom.com closes $5.4m Series A led by Capricorn

    Xuba, the Omaha-based social commerce startup behind social beauty store and network Bloom.com, closed a $5.4 million Series A round, the company’s co-founder and CEO Julie Mahloch (above) confirmed in an interview on Monday. Capricorn Investment Group led the round with a $5 million investment. Capricorn, which is the investment arm of eBay founding president…

  • Bloom.com expects to hit 100K members within six months of launch

    By month’s end, social beauty store Bloom.com expects to hit an early member milestone: 100,000 signups. Bloom had about 20,000 members at the time of its national launch in August. “From really a standing start basically in August to 100,000 is fantastic,” Nick Hudson, Bloom.com’s chief marketing officer, said in an phone interview this week.…

  • It’s Black Friday? IT’S BLACK FRIDAY!!! A Silicon Prairie roundup

    Although the title of this post includes the words “Black” and “Friday,” no ear-splitting descriptions of “partyin’ partyin’… YEAH!” are contained herein. As far as we’re concerned, the only thing that’s “gotta get down” today is the price of merchandise. Yes, it’s Black Friday, the day that drives droves of day deal-crazed shoppers to stores…

  • Prairie Moves: Hasani Hunter, Ryan Velgersdyk, Grain & Mortar and more

    What is Prairie Moves? Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please…

  • For social beauty store Bloom, New York launch sets off busy stretch

    An Aug. 10 national launch in New York City was just part of what figures to be a whirlwind few weeks for the team from Bloom, the Omaha-based online social beauty store that’s looking to revolutionize the way women buy beauty products. “We are just at the very beginning of our mission to use social…