BloomNation is the world’s leading online floral marketplace that allows customers to discover and purchase unique, hand-crafted designs from the top florists in the country. Unlike other sites, BloomNation shows you the actual designs created by the florists and brings the personalized experience of walking into a flower shop online. Customers can compare over 50,000 designs, prices and reviews all in one place while paying local prices with no service fees. BloomNation helps ensure the arrangement you fall in love with is the arrangement you receive by sending “BloomSnaps,” photos of the arrangement before it’s delivered.
Shopping on BloomNation also strongly supports local flower shops and studios across the country, getting these small businesses discovered by customers from across the globe.
BloomNation has tremendous momentum with funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Ronny Conway, Spark Capital, Chicago Ventures, and CrunchFund. The company is a winner of the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business’s New Venture Challenge, with former winners including GrubHub and BrainTree.
BloomNation is disrupting the online floral business by solving the problems of today’s local florists as well as consumers’ poor experiences with ordering flowers online.
Here are some of my favorite features of BloomNation
- You receive a photo of the completed order before its delivered so you know that what you ordered is what the recipient will get.
- Florists create and sell their unique and one-of-a-kind hand crafted original designs.
- · Same day hand delivery service,
- No stock images — all photos on BloomNation are of the florists’ actual work
- · Named by Entrepreneur as a Top 5 Silicon Beach Startup to Watch and has been named as one of the 2014 Southern California’s Ones to Watch by socalTECH.
- Local florists have seen up to 500% increases in their sales (Small Business Saturday year-round
BloomNation is perfect for holidays or just every day flower deliveries(Hey! sometimes its nice to send flowers to your self!)