Become.com, an online comparison shopping and research site raises $8 million in its fourth funding round. The Mountain View, California based company is known for its great array of available products. The company will provide an additional set of details in an official announcement about funding.
Its been not long when the company has raised $17.5 million in its third round of funding. Michael Yang, CEO of the company told VentureBeat, that he aims to make Become.com, world’s best comparison shopping site so that it can compete with Internet Shopping giants such as Shopping.com. In order to acquire good position and to swallow bitter pills in the form of hard core competition, Startups always needs good Monterey back up. The fund raising of more than $25 million in a short span of 4 months by Become.com also depicts that they are genuinely focusing on their business strategy.
The site offers a wholesome collection of products through comparison shopping. It serves as a deftly tool to help users in finding an appropriate product by displaying thousands of reviews from bundles of available stores. So far, the site has succeeded in selling more than 25 million products through 5,000 stores that can be considered as a good achievement for a newly incubated company. But the site has still thousands of challenges in its way as TheFind.com, that is based on a similar concept has sold relatively more products than it.
Become.com has so far raised $37 million in its funding rounds.
