Modabound Inc.

Online marketplace that helps women buy and sell fashion items with people in their area.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Fashion
  • Location New York City, NY, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded March 2013
  • Employees 3
  • Website modabound.com

Company Summary

Modabound is a local fashion marketplace that helps women buy and sell fashion items with the people around them. On average, women have over $1000 worth of clothes in their wardrobes but wear as little as 20% of what they own.We built Modabound to make it easy for women to refresh their wardrobes.

Team

  • Carolina Garcia
    Co-Founder & CEO

    I graduated Columbia University with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and a Concentration in Sustainable Development. I met Alexa at Columbia and we both began working on Modabound soon after graduating college.
    We decided to build Modabound to make it easy for women to refresh their wardrobes.
    We launched our pilot at Columbia University in Spring 2013 and in July of the same year, Modabound was accepted to TechStars London.

  • Alexandra Varsavsky
    Co-Founder & Director of Product

    Alexa worked at two tech-companies prior to founding Modabound: a film-tech startup called MUBI and then at Tumblr. She focused on business development and community outreach projects during the 12 months that she worked in startups. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Columbia University May 2012.

  • Robert Esris
    Lead Developer

    After working for Techstars for close to five months, Rob joined Modabound in London while they were participating in the accelerator's inaugural London program. He has a Bachelor's in Computer Science from Columbia University, and arrived in the tech startup world with almost a decade of experience programming and managing complex projects for industries as diverse as corporate law, health, advertising, and gaming.

Advisors

  • Alexander Rea, Cooley LLP
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • TechStars
    Unconfirmed

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