Lana Elie turned a bad bouquet into a marketplace for independent florists. Nine years, several funding rounds and one hard reset later, Floom found an owner that speaks fluent flower shop.
Poppy Flowers has spent years turning one of a wedding's foggiest purchases into a visible, editable plan. Its real product is not the bouquet alone - it is the machinery that gets thousands of fragile stems from farms to local designers to the right room at the right hour.
FTD began as a clever workaround for flowers that could not survive a train ride. Today, its real product is still the handoff - coordinating emotion, ecommerce and a local florist before the moment passes.