STORY
It all started a day in December last year downtown Palo Alto, when we learned how frustrating and time consuming local commerce can be.

We began in  December 2013 to build an universal solution that reinvents how we discover and purchase from brick and mortar stores. It all started when we went that night for one of our “traditional” evening walks on University Avenue in Palo Alto. We observed that no other store apart from the Apple Store was able to provide its customers with a seamless and convenient shopping experience.
Frankly speaking, it is more difficult to pay for a $5 ice cream than purchasing a $199 Anki Drive at Apple.

Local shopping can be frustrating and time consuming. Incovenient discovery and avoiding the point of sale has been a primary driver of online ecommerce growth. Local retailers have suffered a decline in sales to cloud based vendors as a result. But at Downtown we plan to change all that.

Team
Phil Buckendorf
Co-Founder & CEO
Xavier de Ryckel
Co-Founder
Max Noelle
Co-Founder
Alberto Gimeno
CTO