Short Story
Short Story is the first online retailer and top rated personal styling service focused exclusively on petite women’s sizing.
Signals
X account@shortstorybox · created Jan 9, 2014 (12 years old) · 79 followers
Website registeredAug 28, 2017 (9 years old)
Timeline
- Summer 2019
YY Combinator · batch
Source: ycombinator.com - Website created
- X account created
Founders and team
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Isabella Sun Founder & CEOLinkedIn · source: foundertrace.comSH
Samuel Hoffstaetter Cofounder @ Short Story (YC S19) - We're hiring!LinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com
Investors
AAdrian McDermott
BBossa Invest
CCoughdrop Capital
HHyphen Capital
OOperate
TTribe Capital
TTrue.
WWedbush Ventures
YY Combinatoraccelerator
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Sources and API
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