About thredUP
thredUP provides an online marketplace for secondhand clothing. Founders James Reinhart, Chris Homer and Oliver Lubin have taken about $53 million in outside capital from venture and angel investors, as well as loans.
thredUP Company Stats
As of January 2015
- Industry
- Trading Companies
- Founded
- 2009
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Country/Territory
- United States
- Top Person
- James Reinhart
Forbes Lists
#36
America's Most Promising Companies (2015)
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ThredUP Teams With Nava Rose To Help Gen Z And Millennials Dump Fast Fashion
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The latest to sign on today to thredUP’s Retail as a Service, or RaaS, is teen and young adult retailer Hot Topic.
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The Tribe Of Fashion Thrifters Is Growing. ThredUp Invites Brands To Get On Board.
A new thrifter consumer segment is emerging that threatens to disrupt the fashion industry. ThredUp offers fashion brands a simple way to meet thrifters's demand for more value and sustainability in fashion.
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Target Taps Into $51 Billion Second Hand Clothing Market With ThredUp Deal
Target has found another way to profit with its new strategy of selling second hand clothes. The company has partnered with ThredUp, a resale marketplace for used fashion items like Chanel bags, Michael Kors clothing and Nike shoes, by leveraging its “resale as a service” (RaaS) online platform.
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ThredUP CEO On Why Entrepreneurs Should Solve Hard Problem
James Reinhart sat down with Forbes Editor Steve Bertoni to talk about the origins of threadUP, lessons he learned bartending and his advice for entrepreneurs.
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Resale as a Service Provider And Thrift Marketplace thredUP Scales Up With PacSun
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ThredUP Teams With Celebrity Stylist Karla Welch To Mitigate Waste During Festival Season
ThreadUP has partnered with celebrity stylist and activist Karla Welch in an effort to wrap its proverbial hands around the massive 27 million looks in total that are bought to outfit music lovers during festival season each year.
BySharon EdelsonSenior Contributor
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A Madewell And ThredUP Thrift Store Grows In Brooklyn
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Today, fashion brand Madewell announced the next step within its company-wide sustainability efforts by partnering with Resale-as-a-Service (RaaS) provider thredUP for a new program: Madewell Forever.
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U.K.-based luxury e-commerce site Farfetch has partnered with thredUp for a new Donate Service, which allows consumers to donate clothes they no longer wear in exchange for Farfetch credits while raising money for charity.
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