hubba hubba.com more focused on fast moving consumer goods than any other vendor on this list. Helps with sharing of product information between brands & retailers. Managing product information sucks. You are faced with more information to manage, more digital channels to oversee & more demand for product images, descriptions, videos, & more. Hubba’s B2B Product Information Network gives brands the ability to generate a hub of comprehensive product information while providing retailers with real-time access to this accurate, up-to-date content. Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1-Feb-2021: Just over ten years after its founding, Toronto-based retail startup Hubba will shut down operations, BetaKit has learned.
In October 2015, Toronto-based B2B product platform hubba (on my list of Sales Enablement companies in Canada) picked up $11 million in Series A financing after $3.1 million in seed funding from December 2014.
The B2B product-sharing and discovery platform, has grown its user base to over 10,000 brands & retailers. Building on this momentum, hubba will use the financing to accelerate expansion into additional verticals & geographic regions.
“[…] we are on a mission to be the source for every piece of product content for every product on the planet. The goal is to power this new generation of commerce […]” Ben Zifkin, CEO of
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hubba provides a product information platform for brands, distributors, vendors and retailers to manage and share product information like product descriptions, reviews, images, videos and marketing assets, all in one place.
“We’re in a B2B software space, helping brands, retailers and trade partners to share product information. Today, product information sharing isn’t efficient, to the point where only 25% of product information consumers look at is accurate. Brands are overwhelmed with the amount of rich and unstructured product information, from video, images, marketing materials, to consumer reviews, size, and product specs,”
Howard Lis, COO of hubba told betakit in December 2014
“All of that information is challenging to share, maintain and update to accommodate a barrage of requests from retailers, marketers working on product flyers and copy, e-commerce sites and trading partners’ needs. hubba is a simple easy-to-use platform that pulls together a source of truth, so that everyone gets consistent, updated information coming directly from the brand,” said Lis.
“We saw a critical need for a network that empowers information sharing and doesn’t look or function like traditional enterprise software,” said Ben Zifkin, founder & CEO of hubba. “The best way to make the lives of marketers and salespeople better is to provide them with tools that are easy to use, make them more effective at their job and encourage engagement with their colleagues and business partners.”