Quadpay Acquires AI-Powered Visual Fashion Search Engine Urge
November 10 2020 - 8:02AM
Business Wire
Acquisition Reimagines the Buy Now Pay Later
Shopping Experience for Consumers
Leading Buy Now Pay Later innovator Quadpay (ASX:Z1P) today
announced it has acquired Sydney-based technology company Urge
Holdings, known for its fashion search engine The Urge as well as a
“Shazam for fashion” app known as Shnap, for a purchase price of
approximately $6.1 million. Quadpay will integrate Urge’s
technology onto its interest-free installment payment platform,
giving Quadpay’s millions of customers the ability to shop apparel
by taking a photo or screenshot and then automatically finding
retailers for the purchase as well as price comparisons.
In addition, Quadpay’s network of thousands of merchant partners
will gain the ability to offer targeted and more personalized
promotions to consumers as a means of acquiring new business and
driving increased sales.
“The Urge acquisition represents a significant milestone in our
mission to create the most innovative and intuitive shopping
experience so that our customers can shop for exactly what they
need for the best price,” said Quadpay Co-CEO Brad Lindenberg. “As
consumers continue to raise the bar of expectations for the digital
shopping experience, this collaboration will also allow us to
better curate personalized deals and offers to customers, a natural
evolution for us.”
Urge and Shnap were created by Sydney-based wife and husband
team Cayley and Doron Ostrin. After struggling to find the right
bridesmaid dress for her best friend's wedding, they enlisted chief
technology officer Pierre Caserta to develop technology that
brought the world’s top fashion designers and trusted stores
together in one place.
“Combining Quadpay’s digital-first installment payment platform
with our cutting-edge machine learning and AI technology results in
an unparalleled shopping experience for consumers and merchants,”
said Doron Ostrin. “We’ll have the ability to help millions of
retailers efficiently reach consumers’ exact needs, at the exact
price point they seek.”
As a result of the acquisition, Urge Holdings co-founders will
join Quadpay where they will work on product integrations and
scaling their technology. Quadpay expects the new technology to be
fully integrated later this year and will expand beyond the fashion
industry.
ABOUT Quadpay
Quadpay (ASX: Z1P) is a leading US-based installments platform,
providing consumers with a simple, transparent, and financially
responsible alternative to traditional credit. Quadpay is
reinventing the payments landscape with its focus on innovation and
customer-centricity, enabling millions of customers to pay in four
interest-free installments over six weeks. The company’s
market-leading app, enables seamless integration for merchants and
the ability for customers to shop online and in-store
interest-free, not just with Quadpay’s 7,200 integrated merchants
but with leading global retailers. For more information, visit:
www.quadpay.com.
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