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Gourmant

Via S. Pertini, 5 - Località Antella, Bagno a Ripoli, Toscana, 50012, Italy

Overview

Gourmant.com operates an ecommerce community and online shopping club that selects high-quality Italian wine and food and sells them via flash-sale events lasting 15 days at discounted prices. The platform reports about 50,000 subscribers who purchase roughly 27,000 products each month. Co-founded in 2013 by Daniele Biffoli and Giovanni Brandini, the company was accelerated within the Nanabianca incubator in Florence. Gourmant plans to broaden its assortment to include fruits and vegetables, open a physical store, increase marketing efforts and pursue international expansion. Its core product is a curated flash-sales ecommerce experience built around Italian food and wine producers. Gourmant is an online shopping club based in Florence, Italy, dedicated to selling curated Italian wine and food. The company's e-commerce platform selects and offers the best wine and food products from Italy. It operates a flash-sales model with offerings during 15-day periods and discounts of about 40–50%. Gourmant is incubated within NanaBianca. Co-founded by Daniele Biffoli and Giovanni Brandini (both aged 30), the company raised €50k in seed funding from Club Italia Investimenti 2. It intends to use the funds to hire new staff and expand its marketing efforts.

Total raised
$1M
Funding rounds
2
Latest round
Equity
Latest activity
May 2015

Industries

  • E-Commerce
  • Hospitality
  • Retail
  • Shopping
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Recent funding

  1. Equity

    May 2015

    $1M

  2. Seed

    Dec 2013

    $0M

Team

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