Snooth

Infobox_Company
company_name = Snooth Inc
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = New York City, New York
(November 17 2006)
location = New York City, New York
industry = Internet
num_employees = 6 [Citation
title = Snooth Team Page
url = http://www.snooth.com/team/]
homepage = [http://www.snooth.com/ www.snooth.com]

Snooth is a social networking website based in New York City, USA. It was founded in November 2006 by Philip James, a graduate of Oxford University and Columbia Business School. The company raised $300,000 in seed financing in December 2006.

Snooth has built an online community for wine drinkers; registered users can research, review and shop for wine on the site.

As of July 2007, the site had the largest numberFact|date=December 2007 of wine reviews with over 1.7 million ratings across 300,000 wines. The site has been noted in Decanter (magazine), [cite web
last =Rosen
first =Maggie
coauthors =Oliver Styles
title =Wine sites cash in on Facebook phenomenon
work =Decanter Magazine
publisher =IPC Media Limited
date =August 14, 2007
url =http://www.decanter.com/news/136740.html
format =html
doi =
accessdate = 2007-11-01 ] the New York Daily News, [Citation
last =Cheshes
first =Jay
title =Turkeys that fly: How to have a mail-order Thanksgiving
newspaper =Daily News
pages =
year =2007
date =21 November 2007
url =http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/food/2007/11/09/2007-11-09_turkeys_that_fly_how_to_have_a_mailorder.html?print=1&page=all ] and the New York Post. [Citation
last =Lieberman
first =Sara
author-link =
last2 =Stewart
first2 =Sara
author2-link =
title = No Bottle Rockets: The City's Hot New Wine-bar Scene is Coming Uncorked!
newspaper =New York Post
pages =
year =2007
date =25 November 2007
url = http://www.nypost.com/seven/11252007/entertainment/food/no_bottle_rockets_885790.htm?page=0]

In November 2007, the company raised another $1 million from angel investors [Citation
title= Wine 2.0 Site, Snooth, Raises $1 Million Angel Round
url = http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/28/wine-20-site-snooth-raises-1-million-angel-round/] to expand its operations and merchant relationships. A partnership with Global Wine Stocks in April 2008 [Citation
title = Attention Wine Snobs: Snooth.com Goes Global
url = http://mashable.com/2008/04/15/snooth-goes-global/] greatly expanded its catalog of wines available for purchase in worldwide markets.

References

External links

* [http://www.snooth.com/ Snooth website]
* [http://www.centernetworks.com/snooth-philip-james-video-interview Interview With Snooth Founder Philip James]