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ShopInterest, The Startup That Lets You Sell From Your Pinterest Boards, Gets 500 Startups Backing

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shopinterest-logoShopInterest.co, an e-commerce platform that lets anyone turn their Pinterest boards into online stores, is today announcing a small, undisclosed investment from 500 Startups, via its newly acquired fund Mexican.VC. It’s the first investment 500 Startups has made into the Pinterest ecosystem, says ShopInterest CEO Francisco Guerrero, also the creator of Pinterest analytics platform Pintics.

Now that the team is solely focused on the e-commerce space, Pintics will be shut down next month and users transitioned to former competitor Pinfluencer.

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Pintics’ Founders Create ShopInterest, A “Shopify For Pinterest”

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shopinterestThe same guys who built the Pinterest analytics service Pintics spent the weekend at the AngelHack Hackathon in Palo Alto working on another Pinterest-related project. This time around, the result is ShopInterest, a DIY service that lets anyone turn their Pinterest boards into an online store. Inspired by the burgeoning social shopping trend found on sites like Fab.com, for example, ShopInterest turns your curated pin collections into web shops that include an integrated shopping cart experience. It’s “Shopify for Pinterest,” the company explains.

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