News: Portfolio 2007

EZ Prints Secures $8 Million in Venture Funding From General Catalyst Partners

Digital Imaging Services Provider Extending Global Network of Private-Label Partnerships with Major Online and Offline Retailers, Enabling Consumers and Business to Create Personalized Products from Their Content

January 9, 2007: - Atlanta and Las Vegas -- EZ Prints, a leading provider of private-label digital image fulfillment solutions for retailers, portals, ISPs, digital content owners and professional photo services, today announced that it has secured $8 million in funding from General Catalyst Partners. The funding will be used to increase sales, marketing and product development activities, and further enhance and expand EZ Prints' global image fulfillment network, which includes Smugmug, Target and Yahoo!.

More than 500 online and offline retailers use EZ Prints' technology platform to offer services that empower consumers and businesses to creatively personalize digital content. EZ Prints has brokered unique relationships between partners, such as an arrangement that allows consumers to print their online Yahoo! Photos at any Target store in an hour.

"Since our inception in 1998 as a photo finishing service for consumers, we've been expanding our technology architecture and network of partners to be the back-end fulfillment infrastructure for retailers and online photo service," said Jamie Bardin, President and CEO of EZ Prints. "Customers want to maintain control of their images, and this desire is causing companies in different industries to partner in non-traditional ways. Now, thanks to EZ Prints, companies like Yahoo! and Target are partnering via our network to provide their customers with the ability to create products and pick them up where they want, when they want them."

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