One Kings Lane
E-commerceUSAClosed 2020
Total Raised
$225M
Peak Valuation
$900M
Employees
—
Year Collapsed
2020
Business model
Flash-sale e-commerce for home decor and furniture, later shifting toward full-price retail.
In brief
A design-focused flash-sale site for home goods that reached a near-billion-dollar valuation during the mid-2010s e-commerce boom, competing directly in the same crowded category as Fab.com and Gilt. As flash-sale economics proved difficult across the whole category, the company…
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Key facts
- Founded
- 2009
- Closed
- 2020
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, USA
- Industry
- E-commerce
- Employees
- —
- Revenue
- Undisclosed
- Founders
- Susan Feldman, Ali Pincus
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Often compared with: Wayfair, West Elm.