Mercantila lands $1M for retail site network

Mercantila, a San Francisco-based portal of related specialty retail web sites, has brought in $1 million in convertible notes from an undisclosed source. By “specialty” the company means niche — offering a springboard for e-commerce sites selling items like dog beds, massage tables, recumbent bikes, espresso machines and the like. All of these stores fall into four categories: home & kitchen, patio & garden, fitness & sports, and kids & baby — hardly everything you could ever want, but not a bad start.

Mercantila previously raised financing in 2006 from Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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