Startup Bridgevine has raised $3.5 million in Series C funding from Safeguard Scientifics and Constellation Ventures to launch Offerwire, a consumer focused site that aggregates home services deals. This round brings Bridgevine’s total funding raised to $16.6 million. Bridgevine previously provided an online e-commerce engine for consumers and small businesses to find and compare deals specifically on connection and entertainment services, such as high speed internet, voice and cable TV offerings.
Bridgevine’s new consumer site, Offerwire, is an aggregation site of deals and offers not only for connection and cable services, but also for music, dvd rental, magazines, credit cards, security and more. It’s like Kayak for home and entertainment services. Users can comparison shop for deals, bundle services together, and as an added bonus, receive cash back for certain deals. Offerwire has a host of big-name vendors on board including Comcast, Time Warner Cable, AT&T, Verizon, Netflix, and LifeLock.
The cashback incentive makes the site particularly appealing. For example, Offerwire says that if you get cable through Time Warner, you could get as much as $100 cash back. Bridgevine’s CEO, Vinny Olmstead, says that the site offers a deal where if you bundle cable, phone and internet services together (the “triple play”), you could receive as much as $300 back from Comcast. Of course, with every referral, Bridgevine takes a cut, which ranges depending on the service bought.
Competitors to Offerwire include Digital Landing and WhiteFence.
what a garbage site – are you serious? $3.5m ?are they not making enough in affiliate fees?
Shop. Save. Earn!
What a cool idea, if you’re stuck in 1997.
you tell ‘em tzar…
wouldn’t want to have a biz model that actually makes money… guess they should do another photo site ehh…
kids these days…
Amen!
Bridgevine got me Time Warner Road Runner high speed cable for $29 a month for 6 months with a $50 rebate, and I actually got the rebate check.
I cancelled my dedicated server and now pay one low $29 cable internet bill to both host my websites and watch IPTV with mediamall playon.
Bridgevine is awesome. Nobody wants to deal with TW and their dumb upsells.
I used the site in beta and it worked great…….my triple play from Comcast has been installed, and waiting for my $300 rebate……worth a try.
You’re doing a writeup on a company that used a free bridgevine.com affiliate template?
It seems all they did is publish the commission junction ftp database.
This is the first website that I’ve seen that offers this broad line of products and services.
Offers.com has a more broad offering of offers for services and retail stores.
I love the convenience of this site! They have better rebates than anyone else for these services…