The Markable Update: Making Friends
No clever introduction today; rather, we’re excited to announce we’ve officially been accepted into the spring 2017 cohort of the Friends of eBay program!
For the next three to six months our New York team will operate from a lovely office in the Flatiron District furnished by eBay. In addition to the great location, we’ll be getting access to the technical, personnel and advisory resources from one of the preeminent e-commerce companies in the world.
eBay x NYC
The Friends of eBay program was started a few years back as part of a company wide initiative to bridge the gap between the “old” world of commerce in New York, and the “new,” which had developed in the early 2000s out around San Francisco and Seattle.
As such, the program focuses on early-stage companies bringing technology to the commerce world — or commerce to the tech world. In contrast from the traditional accelerator model (by which an accelerator gives its cohort startups a small cash sum to explore their ideas), FoE strives for a more involved, human, and “no strings attached” approach, i.e. providing its cohort a really cool office and very well stocked refrigerators.
To learn more about the program, check out the official website, and this great write up from Forbes.
Markable x eBay x NYC
We see New York, the media capital of the world, as a key part of Markable’s continued growth, and it’s exciting that others are realizing the untapped growth potential at the intersection of tech, media and commerce that lies in the city. We’re very thankful for the resources FoE is providing to us, and will make the most of this great opportunity to continue to push our development of machine learning in fashion.
As usual, to check out the demo, click here, and to get in touch and learn more about Markable, click here.
