Decide banks $6 million in series B.
Stealth start up Decide has closed on a $6 million series B round led by Maveron, Madrona Venture Group, Google founding board member Ram Shriram, and former Expedia CEO Erik Blachford, TechCrunch reports.
The company bought Decide.com for $175,000 through domain broker Afternic last December.
At the time it bought the domain, I wrote:
The buyer appears to be someone associated with Seattle based PriceYeti. PriceYeti launched last year, offering to send users an email alert when the price of an item they were tracking online dropped. However, it appears the service is now offline. The whois records for PriceYeti and Decide.com are different, but Decide.com is registered under PriceYeti.
Indeed, TechCrunch writes that Decide “appears to be a re-start of PriceYeti”.
Dan says
I was just doing some research on this, the seller must be kicking himself in the rear.
Andrew Allemann says
@ Dan – I don’t think so. He bought it for a lot less, probably didn’t get many serious offers on it, and the buyer spent a good amount of its warchest on it.
Jon says
I would have asked for $300K, but the price was ok imo, considering the name sounds kind-of boring, imo again. PriceYeti should have tried buying something cool-sounding like price.com, even if the price was 7 figures.
Halvarez says
I’d have asked for $50k.