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Warby Parker
Warby Parker is an American brand of prescription eyeglasses and sunglasses founded in 2010. Warby Parker sells online and has a limited number of showrooms in the United States.
==History==
The company was founded in 2010 by Neil Blumenthal, Andrew Hunt, David Gilboa, and Jeffrey Raider,〔 and is headquartered in New York City. The name "Warby Parker" derives from two characters that appear in a journal by the Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac.
The company was started in the Venture Initiation Program of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where the founders all studied. The company received $2,500 seed investment through the program and launched in February 2010.〔 Shortly after launching, the company was featured on Vogue.com,〔 and in GQ, which called it "the Netflix of eyewear". In May 2011, Warby Parker raised its first round of funding totaling $2.5 million. In September 2011, the company raised a Series A round of $12.5 million. In Fall 2012, it raised a $37 million Series B round, with an additional $4 million announced in February 2013 with noted investors American Express and Mickey Drexler. Warby Parker shipped more than 100,000 pairs of glasses in 2011, and had 60 employees. By the end of 2012, the company grew to over 113 employees. As of April 2015, the company is valued at $1.2 billion.
Shortly following its extension into retail stores, Warby Parker announced the company's intention to build its own point of sale (POS) system. One feature planned for Warby Parker's custom POS is to charge the customer when their product is shipped instead of when it is first ordered in-store.
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