Posted by Alumni from TechCrunch
March 28, 2024
All parents know that raising kids is expensive. Especially in those early years when they quickly outgrow clothes or toys leaving parents on a never-ending cycle of buying new stuff when the old stuff is hardly worn or used. Enter Kidsy, a new Chicago-based e-commerce startup which aims to give consumers greater access to discounted baby and kids products by partnering with large brands, retailers and liquidation companies for their overstock and returns inventory. At the same time, it says, it can help prevent overstock and liquidation items ' such as kids' clothing ' from ending up in landfills, which is obviously not good for the environment. Kidsy's founders are Indian-born former business journalist Shraysi Tandon and Turkish-born software engineer Sinan Sari, who also co-founded Y Combinator-backed SaaS startup Cuboh ( a startup that was just sold to competitor ChowNow). The pair teamed up in April of 2022 to start the company, which recently closed what Tandon described as... learn more