AAA Pickie cleans up with Bertelsmann

Pickie cleans up with Bertelsmann

Pickie, a US-based iPad shopping application, has raised $1m from a consortium including Germany-based publisher Bertelsmann’s corporate venturing unit.

Alongside Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments in Pickie’s venture funding were venture capital firms DFJ Gotham Ventures, which led the round, Betaworks, Liberty City Ventures and MESA+, a nanotechnology research institute formed by Netherlands-based University of Twente, and angel investors including Jon Steinberg, David Tisch (founder of accelerator TechStars where Pickie launched) and Steven Rosenblatt.

Sonia Sahney Nagar, formerly a senior product manager at online retailer Amazon, is chief executive of Pickie and a co-founder alongside Abhijit Rao and Ryan Weber.

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